Srinagar, Sept. 14 -- By Uzair Ashiq

The road to Kashira runs into the mountains of Kupwara, toward a village surrounded by forests and high slopes where the Khanqah and Dargah of Maulana Muhammad Amin Owaisi have stood for decades.

Here, people still speak of a man whose life, as his followers remember it, moved between scholarship and mystical experience, between the visible world and realities that Tasawwuf teaches lie beyond it.

Maulana Muhammad Amin Owaisi was born in 1910 in the Kishanganga Valley. His mother died when he was two. His father died when he was seven, leaving the boy an orphan. His family gave him the name Muhammad Amin, after the Prophet Muhammad [PBUH]. He left home young and began a journey through Islamic learni...