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Nationality
  
Pakistani.

Name
  
Zaheen Taji


Role
  
Died
  
July 23, 1978

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Full Name
  
Mohammad Tuaseen

Born
  
1902
Jaipur, India.

Occupation
  
Sufi, Poet, philosopher, scholar

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Zaheen Shah Taji (Urdu: ذہین شاہ تاجی‎) born Muhammad Tuaseen (Urdu: محمد طاسین‎) on 1902 and died July 23, 1978, was a great sufi of sub-continent as well as an Urdu poet, philosopher and scholar of high repute.

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Zaheen Shah Taji Ghazal - From Audio Archives of Lutfullah Khan


Biography

He was born in Jaipur, India. He was in direct lineage from Umer Farooq and was adapted in Chishtia order of sufism by Syed Muhammad Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri. Zaheen Shah Taji was the disciple of His Holiness, Hazrat Yusuf Shah Taji, who was disciple of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur.

Literary skill

He has written many books and Ghazals in Urdu language while he knew Persian, Arabic, English and Hindi languages as well. He used Zaheen as a pen name in his poetry.

Works and influence

Taji translated two important works of Ibn Arabi Fusus-ul-Hukm and Fatuhat al-Makiyyah and also translated Al-Hallaj's Kitab-ut-Tawaseen in Urdu amongst many other books in Urdu and Persian the most prominent being the Taj-ul-Auliya (biography of Ba Ba Tajuddin Nagpuri. Prominent scholars who used to attend his gatherings were Maulana Mahir-ul-Qadri, Prof. A. B. A. Haleem, Prof. Karrar Hussain, Maulana Kausar Niazi, Hasrat Kasganjvi, Ilyas Ishqui, Abul Khair Kashfi, Josh Malihabadi, Rais Amrohvi and Syed Muhammad Taqi.

References

Zaheen Shah Taji Wikipedia