Syed Anwar Yarkhan Jilani Biography

By profession I am a consulting physician. I have been a journalist and editor with about 20,000 published views, reviews, interviews and surveys in Indian leading periodicals and newspapers. I have also contributed to the Readers Digest and New York Times. I have served as uniformed personnel in the Air Force for three years and the Research and Analysis Wing (a department of the Indian CBI) reporting directly to the Prime Minister's Office when Madame Indira Gandhi was the Indian Prime Minister.

There was a sudden change of heart and I devoted myself to Sufism or Islamic mysticism. I have seven 'khilafats' or written permission to propagate the school of thought including those from the Sajjadanashin of Huzoor Gausul Azam Dastagir, Bagdad, and Sajjadanashin of Huzoor Moinuddin Hassan Chisty, Ajmer, or Khawaja Garib Nawaz as he is commonly called. From the tenets of Tariqat this makes me one of the senior most of pirane ozzam of the Indian subcontinent. So as not to divorce non-urdu speaking population recently I have ventured into English poetry. Thus my poems are an amalgam of biological science and spiritualism.

I hope and pray my endeavours will be acceptable to the public in general and to my pirane ozzam in particular.