Khwaja QAMRUDDIN SIALWI

What aspect of this personality, attributed with all great attributes, should be mentioned and what should not be mentioned in order to be content? This period is very testing of patience for the rose-gatherer in this rose-garden of beauty and perfection.




The physical beauty that Allah (most high) granted Khawaja Muhammad Qamar al-Din, we cannot find any match for it anywhere. Gracious face, high nose, shining gazelle-like eyes, broadness of the fortunate forehead, thickness of the blessed beard and shining tresses would capture the gaze and the heart. Despite the graces of beauty, such a reflection of Allah’s majesty remained resplendent upon the face that no courage to speak in the holy presence remained.



When Khawaja Qamar al-Din’s age was four years, four months and ten days, Khawaja Diya’ al-Din enrolled him to memorize the Qur’an in the class of Hafiz Karim Bakhsh. He very quickly memorized the Qur’an in a short span of time. Following that, capable teachers taught him Persian and Arabic etymology and syntax with much joy and hard work and this capable student accepted all that he was taught with much joy and enthusiasm. When he was very young and was reading the Kanz al-Daqa’iq, during this time he wrote a commentary on a difficult issue within the Kanz al-Daqa’iq in the Arabic language. After seeing it, great learned scholars were left amazed. This written piece caused a greater sense of enhancing the education and upbringing of this student in the heart of his father; Khawaja Diya’ al-Din. As a result, he looked towards a distinguished scholar from the Khayr Abadi family of knowledge and wisdom, Maulana Mu’in al-Din Ajmayri. At that time, he was the principal teacher at Madrasa ‘Uthmaniyya Dar al-Khayr in Ajmayr (India) and so for some time, Khawaja Diya’ al-Din sent his beloved son to Ajmayr in pursuit of education. Later on, Maulana Ajmayri was brought from Ajmayr to Siyal and Khawaja Qamar al-Din continued acquiring knowledge from him. A student of Maulana Ajmayri, Maulana Muhammad Hussain, also began teaching in Siyal at Dar al-‘Ulum Diya’ Shams al-Islam. Khawaja Qamar al-Din studied philosophy and logic with Maulana Muhammad Din Badhwi. Khawaja Qamar al-Din completed these various sciences and disciplines from these learned scholars. He also completed the Dawra Hadith with Maulana Ajmayri, who consequently bestowed the sanad and ijaza of hadith narration to him.