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Shah Muhibbullah of Allahabad, Dara Shukoh, Miyan Mir, Mullah Shah, Sarrnad and Baba Lal belonged to the pantheistic school of thought; Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, Khawja Muhammad Masum and Ghulam Yahya belonged to the other school.
Since the works of Ibnu'l 'Arabi were difficult reading for ordinary mystics and scholars, Shah Muhibbullah under• took to write commentaries on them.
Shah Muhibbullah had written to him and in which he had observed: "From certain observations in the works of Ibnu'l 'Arabi it is implied that God is an Absolute Universal Substance.
· · Ghulam Mu'inu'ddin Abdullah, a contemporary of the saint, says: · "Even today the Shaykh ( Shah Muhibbullah) is not free from the clutches of stupid and presumptuous persons.
" 8 It was through Shah Muhibbullah that Dara Shukoh got introduced to the mystic thought of Ibnu'l 'Arabi.
saint refers to the request of the Prince to send him his Persian commentary on the Fusus, (8) Maktubat-i-Shah Muhibbullah, (MS.
" 9 · · The author of I qtibasu' l Anwar 10 has quoted· in · detail some of the questions which Dara Shukoh had put to him and some of the letters contained in M akiubat-i-Shah M uhibbullah 11 also throw an interesting light on the relations of the Prince with the saint.
· "And He is with you wheresoever you may be" ( Ch. LVIII, Verse 4 )~ Shah Muhibbullah, inspired by Ibnu'l 'Arabi, has shown in his various treatises that in Islamic mysticism ( Tasawwuf), the development of theism.