Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
Muhammad Usman Marwandi (1149–1299), also known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (Sindhi: لال شھباز قلندر), was a Sufi philosopher-poet of present-day Afghanistan. He belonged to the Suhrawardi order of Sufis.
Called Lal (red) after his usual red attire, Shahbaz to denote a noble and divine spirit.
Life
Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, son of Habib, was born in Marwand. His ancestors had migrated from Baghdad and settled in Mashhad, before moving again to Marwand.
He lived when the Ghaznavid and Ghurids ruled in South Asia. A contemporary of Rumi, he travelled around the Muslim world and settled in Sehwan where he was eventually buried. There is evidence of his presence in Sindh in 1196 when he met Pir Haji Ismail Panhwar of Paat and he is believed to have arrived in Sehwan around 1251. There he established a meeting house (khanqah), taught in the Fuqhai Islam Madarrsah and wrote his treatises Mizan-us-Surf, Kism-e-Doyum, Aqd and Zubdah. Lal Shahbaz lived a celibate life and died in the year 1279 at the age of 130.