Hadhrat Molana Pir Fakir-u-llah Bakoti

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Hadhrat Molana Pir Faqir-u-llah Bakoti was a religious resistance leader to British rule, he used the idea of Tassawaf (Sufi Theosophy) to recruit his followers, promising freedom.

Note this name is not his real name, but an honorific one made up of several parts.

1. Hadhrat - Used to honour religious leaders.
2. Molana - Someone who is a scholar.
3. Pir - A Sufi master.
4. Faqir - Capable of endurance or apparent magic.
5. Bakoti - Of the Bakot area.

His appearance was viewed as a miracle by the local people in those days when the British Empire had crushed the people of Murree and Circle Bakote brutally and treated them as a slaves. His arrival from Pajja Sharif district Muzaffarabad (now in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan) through the Kohala Bridge resulted in the reunification of local tribes.

The tribes such as Dhond Abbasi and other were unified and were encouraged to battle the British Authorities under his leadership. Mohammed Ali Shah (Pir of Plasi) was another Saint of circle Bakote who led local tribes in the war of Bala Kote against Sikhs with co-ordination of Seyed Ahmed Shahid and Shah Ismail Shahid but not succeeded.