Draft:Syedna Ameer Abul Ula

Shaykh Syedna Shah Ameer Abul Ula was born near Delhi, India in 990 AH. He was a direct descendant of the Prophet ‎Muhmmad (Ahlul Bayt). He was appointed as a governor by Emperor Akbar, but he left this post after he saw a dream where Hazrat Imam Ali, Hazrat Imam Hussain and Hazrat Imam Hasan ordered him to walk the spiritual path (Darweshi). He had taken bayyat with his uncle, Hazrat Ameer Abdullah in the Naqshbandi Silsila.

Spiritual Lineage
The traditional silsila (spiritual lineage) of the Naqshbandi-Abul Ulai order is as follows:


 * 1) Prophet Muhammad (570/571 - 632 CE)
 * 2) Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (573 - 634 AD)
 * 3) Salman the Persian (568 - 656 AD)
 * 4) Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (655 - 725 AD)
 * 5) Jafar al-Sadiq (702 -765 AD)
 * 6) Tayfur Bayazid Bastami (804 - 874 AD)
 * 7) Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963 - 1033 AD)
 * 8) Abu Ali Farmadi (1016 - 1084 AD)
 * 9) Yusuf Hamadani (1048 - 1141 AD)
 * 10) Abu'l-Abbas, al-Khidr
 * 11) Abdul Khaliq Ghijduwani
 * 12) Arif Riwgari
 * 13) Mahmood Anjir Faghnawi
 * 14) Ali Ramitani
 * 15) Mohammad Baba As-Samasi
 * 16) Sayyid Amir Kulal
 * 17) Imam at-Tariqah Baha' al-Din Naqshband
 * 18) Sayyid Alauddin Atar
 * 19) Yaqub al-Charkhi
 * 20) Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar
 * 21) Khwaja Muinuddin Abdul Haq
 * 22) Khwaja Muhammad Yahya
 * 23) Hafiz Syed Amir Abdullah
 * 24) Shaykh Syedna Shah Ameer Abul Ula

Legacy
There are about 200 Khanqahs of Abul Ulai Silsila in South Asia.