TRIBUTE TO PEER GHULAM HASSAN SIDDIQUI (R.a)
By – Zeeshan Rasool Khan The discourse of Kashmiri Sufism is incomplete without mention of Aishmuqam town. This town has historical and spiritual significance. When Sheikh-ul-Aalam (R.a) noticed the devotion of his disciple – Zain-ud-din-Wali (R.a), he instructed him to meditate in the thick forest of Aish, now known as Aishmuqam. The influence of Zain-ud-din Wali (R.a) turned this place into a mystic abode with a never-fading spiritual aroma. Aishmuqam produced great personalities from time to time who contributed to the spread of this aroma to distant places and Peer Ghulam Hassan Siddiqui Sahb was one among them. Hassan Sahb was born in 1931. His father Peer Yousuf Sahb was a well-read personality, a poet, a preacher; a mystic associated with Kubravia, Suharwardia, and Owaisi orders of Sufism and had a massive following. His mother Khadijah was hafiza (had memorized the noble Quran). Peer Hassan Sahb got initial guidance from his father and received primary education in his