Mir Janullah Shah

{{short description|18th-century Islamic mystic}}

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|era = Medieval

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|name = Sayed Jan Muhammad Shah Rizwi

|title = Mir Janullah shah

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|birth_place = Sindh

|death_date = 1754

|region = Sindh, Pakistan

|school_tradition = Sufism

|main_interests = Sufi poetry

|notable_ideas = Mysticism, Persian Sufi poetry

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|Predecessor =

|influences = Shah Inayat Shaheed, Bedil, Bekas

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Mir Jan Muhammad Rizwi of Rohri, Sindh famous under his nom-de-plume Mir or Mir Janullah (died 1754) was chief Khalifa of Sufi Shah Inayat Shaheed who is related to have told people: "Who ever sees Janullah, sees me" for Janullah had reached the complete Fana fil Shaykh, the identification with his mystical leader.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TvMecI060sC&dq=Mir+Janullah+Shah&pg=PT98 |title=South Asian Sufis: Devotion, and Destiny |author=Clinton Bennett and Charles M. Ramsey |website=Google Books website|date=2012|publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4411-3589-6 |access-date=4 December 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thefridaytimes.com/rizvi-saints-of-sukkur/ |author=Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro|title=Rizvi Saints of Sukkur|newspaper=The Friday Times (newspaper)|date=7 September 2018|access-date=4 December 2021}}

He witnessed the siege of Jhok and returned to Rohri after Shah Inayat's execution.[https://www.dawn.com/news/239475/sufi-janullah-s-urs-begins Sufi Janullah's Urs begins] Dawn (newspaper), Published 27 March 2007, Retrieved 4 December 2021

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