Hadrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali (1911 - 1997), the subject of this biography, was a commissioned officer in the British Army in India. He made a dramatic exit in 1945 when twenty six big nations of the world were still at war, abdicated this mundane and ever since lived an austere life of a faqir (an indigent), writing during the while several hundred books, all on the many different aspects of Islam. As the reader wades through the book, he/she will fathom his erudition and knowledge, above all, his spiritual practices and heights that pervaded his being. Dr Frenais Aranze, Vatican (Italy), visited Hadrat Abu Anees in 1988 at his seminary in Pakistan and wrote to him: "I am particularly impressed by your religious devotion, your living of a poor life and your positive dedication to helping the needy. Quiet revolutions like your own are good ways to promote justice and peace." Dr Muhammad Iqbal, the biographer, a well published author who has written extensively on race relations and multi-faith education. He has been affiliated to Hadrat Abu Anees since 1962 who appointed him Head of the Dar-ul Ehsan Mission in the UK. The biography is a classic on Sufism that affords the message of peace and harmony set within the backdrop of the current climate of discontent and extremism depicted amongst some young British Muslims. Professor Mark Halstead sums up in the Foreword to this biography: "Hadrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali was an ascetic, a man of great learning, a linguist, a philosopher, a mathematician, a jurist, a chemist, an herbalist - but above all a Sufi Master who lived for others and strove for nearness to God. Anyone interested in the Path to spiritual enlightenment through the discipline of Sufi practices will find inspiration in this book."