This remarkable painting from c 1750 shows Miyan Mir and Mullah Shah with two mystics.
The most famous Sufi saints of the Qadriya order in the Indian subcontinent are Miyan Mir (1531/32–1653 CE), Sultan Bahu (1630–1691) and Bulleh Shah (1680–1757).
Miyan Mir preached that there were two paths to finding God. The first was when a devotee was drawn to God himself; the other was through meditation and contemplation under a Sufi saint’s guidance. Dara Shukoh records that one of his disciples claimed that Miyan Mir never slept at night and for several years used only one breath lasting the entire night till sunrise. Even at 80 he was inhaling and exhaling only four times nightly.
You can read about the Qadri ya silsilah and the two saints in my book
In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India
This painting is in @pergamonmuseumberlin
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