According to Hadrat Ali, the highest purpose of knowledge is the awakening of latent spiritual faculties whereby one is enabled to discover his true and inner self.
Accordingly, Hadrat Ali is acknowledged as the "father of Sufism" and the prince of saints.
Hadrat Ali was the personification patience, and for this he acquired the epithet of "Job, the Second." In the battle of Uhud, Hadrat Ali received as many as 61 wounds on his person so that his whole body looked like one massive wound to which the nurses were unable to dress.
He further ordered sons that he should be buried at the same place where his spiritual guide (Pir Mardan Ali Shah) arrived and remained stayed for some time (this is the same place where the court of Kalas Sharif is situated).
He read the whole Quran in his childhood and presented in the court of Pir Mardan Ali Shah (Rehamtullah Aliah), when he visited the shrine along with his mother.
Although he was a saint by birth but when he was 18 he pledged of discipleship of his father Pir Mohammad Shah (Rehmatullah Aliah).
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