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Quṭb ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥīm al-‘Umarī ad-Dihlawī (قطب الدين أحمد بن عبد الرحيم العمري الدهلوي&lrm;; 21 February 1703 – 21 August 1762), better known as Shāh Walī Allāh (شاه ولي الله; ), was an 18th-century Indian Islamic scholar and reformer.

Early life
Wali Allah was born at dawn on Wednesday, 4 Shawwal 1114 AH (21 February 1703), during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, in the home of his maternal grandfather in Phulat, a village in present-day Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father was Shah Abd ar-Rahim, an Islamic scholar and Sufi. His mother, Fakhrun Nisa, was Shah Abd ar-Rahim's second wife and the daughter of Shaykh Muhammad of Phulat. She was trained in the Islamic disciplines and was also experienced in the spiritual path. Abd ar-Rahim married her in early 1114 AH (1702), while he was still married to his first wife, and Wali Allah was born the same year. Abd ar-Rahim was 60 years old at the time of Wali Allah's birth.

Shah Wali Allah related that his father had been foretold of his birth in a dream by Qutb ad-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki, who also instructed Abd ar-Rahim to give his name to the child. Abd ar-Rahim, however, forgot, and named the child Wali Allah. Some days later he remembered the words of Bakhtiyar Kaki and thus also gave Wali Allah the name Qutb ad-Din Ahmad.

At the age of five, Wali Allah was admitted into the maktab (primary school). At the age of seven he was circumcised and also began performing the daily prayers regularly and fasting during Ramadan.