Shaikh Amin bin Abdul Rehman

Shaikh Amin bin Abdul Rehman
Al-Shaikh Al-Hafiz Amin bin Abdul Rehman (b.1941) is a Sufi Shaikh who introduced the Sufi order Idrisiyya in Pakistan on his arrival in Karachi from Saudi Arabia in 1986, where he had been the Imam of a mosque called Abdul Rahim Uwaiza in the neighbourhood of Hara Manshiya in Medina for 20 years. His Shaikh was a Hanafi scholar based in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, Shaikh Muhammad al-Mulla. He shifted from Karachi to Multan in 1995, where he has since been based. He has established centres for silent Dhikr in many cities of Pakistan.
Calling for religious unity among Muslims, he has been at the receiving end of a defamation propaganda of sectarian organizations for the last few years, who have taken advantage of his aversion to fame and publicity and also of a lack of knowledge in the Pakistani public about his Morocco-originated Silsila Idrisiyya to label him as a "Sulh-e-Kulli" (a "peace-for-all protagonist" in reference to Mughal Emperor Akbar’s policy of Sulh-e-Kul towards non-Muslims). On the other hand, his followers identify him as the spiritual Qutub ul Aqtab (Pole of the Poles) of the age and claim that “a contact with his heart through love could provide any heart with the strongest link in this age to Anvaar-o-Tajalliyat (God’s light/theophanies) on the spirit of Muhammad (the Prophet of Islam)” and that "a very strong love for the Prophet Muhammad is induced in a person's heart in his company." However, independent Pakistani Sufi sources have also identified him as one of the "Friends of God" (Aulia-Allah).

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