Bahu NW

This website is dedicated to our noble Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) and the higher order of the
Sarweri Qaderi Tariqat. It is also dedicated to
our late brother Hanief Hassim, who was
instrumental in introducing the sufi order to us
in Potchefstroom, NW province of South
Africa. May Allah perfume his resting place and
grant him Jannatul Firdaus. Your comments are
welcome.

The Sutan Bahu Sufi Order was established in South Africa in the eary 1980's. The head of
the order Faqir Abdul Hamid Sarwari Qaderi resides in Kulachi, NW frontier, Pakistan. He
made his first trip to South Africa in the early 1980's, where he initiated khalifa Saeed Ali
Chopdat into the silsila and made him the senior khalifa for the region. Sheikh Saeed Ali has
made great sacrices to ensure the success of the silsila, and al'hamdu'lillah today we have
many thousands of mureeds in South Africa and neighbouring countries. Sheikh runs the
centre from the head office in Mayfair, Johannesburg, where he also runs an orphanage
and a dialysis centre. Many other projects are also being successfully run, such as the drug
rehab centres in Cape Town, a vibrant centre in Durban and a dawah centre in
Potchefstroom, under Sautul Islam.

Rabiul-Awwal
In honour of the holy Prophet (SAW)
'When I saw his light shining forth,
In fear I covered my eyes with my palms,
Afraid for my sight because of the beauty of his
form.
So I was scarcely able to look at him at all.
The lights from his light are drowned in his light
and his face shines out like the sun and moon in
one.
A spirit of light lodged in a body like the moon, a
mantle made up of brilliant shining stars.
I bore it until I could bear it no longer.
I found the taste of patience to be like bitter aloes.
I could find no remedy to bring me relief other
than delighting in the sight of the one I love.
Even if he had not brought any clear signs with
him, the sight of him would dispense with the need
for them..... '
Hassan B-Thabit
(written over 1400 hundred years ago)

My Master has explained to me
the reality living in the heart:
it is called Ismi-Azam, the Word of God
it is the divine mystery.
The Word is the breath of our lives;
other than the Word nothing exists!
It brings life, it causes death;
in it lie all the secrets of God!
Hz Sultan Bahu (RA