Baba Sharfuddin: Amongst the first saints to have set foot in Deccan

By Syed Zuhaib Quadri This is the 757th year of the veiling of the great gnostic Hazrat Syed Shah Baba Sharfuddin Suharwardy Rh from this temporal abode.
He set foot here even before the christening of Hyderabad city, by that very name.
Baba Sharfuddin was born in Baghdad, Iraq and he spent close to 35 years in the hospice (Khanqah) of his teacher, Shaykh Shihabuddin Suharwardy Rh. He committed the Qur’an to memory at a young age and mastered both the outward and the inward sciences before he was ordered to go to the subcontinent by his spiritual preceptor.
Before gracing the Deccan with his majestic presence, he lived in Delhi for a few years and was a great friend and a contemporary of Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki Rh, the successor of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Rh He was amongst the first saints to have set foot in the Deccan, around 800 years ago.