From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hazrat Mian Bashir Ahmed Laaravi, Naqashbani, Majjaddadi is highly known religious, pious, social personality of Jammu and Kashmir.

He was born in November 1923 at Wanghat, Kangan in Kashmir, is a spiritual leader and religious personality and his followers are to be found not only in India and Pakistan but in Arab countries and Europe as well.

[edit] Description

His full name (and titles) are Sajjada-Nasheen Zayaarat Baba Jee Sahib Laarvi, of Wangat Kashmir, where his father Hazrat Mian Nizam Din Laarvi(RH) and grandfather Hazrat Baba Jee Sahib Laaravi(RH) lay to rest.

He proselytise the doctrines of Naqshbandiyya, Qadria order of Sufism to his followers through Bayyet.

His popularity can be gauged from an account that during the summer of 2004 he visited Pakistan, crossing Wagah border by foot, where he was met by two hundred thousand people were waiting desperately to take a glance.

While on a pilgrimage to his ancestral (sufi) saint's mausoleum, in Kayyan shareef, Hazara Pakistan during period of General Zia Ul Haq, he was followed by huge masses and Pakistani officials, in wake of his political influence in Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir considered it a security risk and the Pakistani army was deployed He was not allowed to go to the mausoleum. As a result he renounced politics saying "I say bye to this politics, which stood between me and my Hazraat."

He performed the Hajj twice, and has no affiliation to any political party, though he has been approached by political leaders.

He has been elected four times to the State Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.He was closely associated with Shiekh Mohammad Abdullah, Mir Qasim and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and was a minister in their cabinets. He has been closely associated with various top leaders in India including Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi, Shiekh Mohammed Abdullah and others.

He has worked tirelessly for poors, nomads, to make them them educationally conscious, socially alert and politically vibrant.

During 1965 and 1971 India-Pak conflict he worked for peace and prosperity of the State and helped rehabilitate people in the tribal and border belts of Jammu and Kashmir. During the course of ongoing insurgency since 1989 he worked to eradicate misconceptions between various communities.

Mian Bashir Ahmed represented the country in the United Nations to argue for peace in Kashmir. He has headed Indian delegations to international forums.

There are hundreds of accounts that, whether it was spiritual power or what,any matter he intervened in, no matter how controversial, complex it was, how the circumstances were, how influential the opponents were, he always stood like an unshakeable mountain ,what come may ,till the matter settled as just and justified.

It is known that he has been a great horse-rider during young age. His eyes often moves into tears when talking about ancestors, and gives great respects to sayings of figures of lineage from whom he inherited the fortunes of Sufism and all.

One Account confirming his respects to saying of his ancestors is: From account of a person: In mid fifty's when Hazrat was on a visit of Rajouri with his father a great spiritual personality Hazrat Mian Nizam Din Laarvi, at that time person who expresses the account was in jail, and there were thousands of people gathered to meet their two Hazrats, that person's wife went to Hz. Nizam Din saying of her husband laying in jail. Hazrat Mian Bashir was sitting beside his father and father said to his son, "Bashir take care of my this daughter". After that, time came and passed by, that person came out of jail, and continued to remain a face in crowd. That person says after around five decades he visited Hazrat in Jammu and Hazrat asked him:"How is my sister?" then Hazrat explained of why he called her "sister", recalling the whole event

This is his mindfulness that he is always surrounded by masses and each conceives that Hazrat loves him the most.

At his residence (Srinagar in summer) and (Jammu in winter) always he is surrounded by hundreds of people came from near and far from political echelons, bureaucrat, labourers to people who live in slums with some coming suffering from violent environs, some on pilgrimage, some to listen to their sermons on religion, philosophy, politics, taqqwah, faqr, history and bayyet.

When he starts discussion on any affair, deeply religious, political, current affairs or deep inside complexities of Sufism, he will go to any lengths strictly in line with perception and logic and any master/expert of that affair will find himself unable to open the mouth.

His followers never tire of praising him or recalling their Murshid's Karamaats, which their murshid tries best not to come fore.

His hospitality can be imagined from that: always hundreds of people use to be present there, came from various walk of life with different purposes and Hazrat takes meal after the person responsible for that comes and reports that each and every guest has taken his/her meal.

He was awarded Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, by the government of India on 26th jan 2008 for his contribution to the society.

[edit] Marriage and children

His elder son Miyan Sarfraz Ahmed is highly respected figure , and currently he checks managerial affairs of shrine and Langar Shareef.

other son Miyan Altaf Ahmed has been Cabinet minister in J&K always during NC Government, and is top figure of National Conference.

[edit] Philosophical and/or political views

He is by all means an icon of moral excellence.