Shah Shahidullah Faridi, born John Gilbert Lennard and raised in a wealthy English family, left his home in search of a Sufi shaykh. We are met with the Chishti Sabri Shaykh, Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah, who Faridi pledged allegiance to, later becoming his spiritual successor. He lived in Karachi for three decades until his death in Ramadan 1978.