Humaithara is between Marsa Alam and Aswan in Egypt and his shrine there is highly venerated.
The entire islamic community in Koothanallur practices Fassiya branch of the Shadhiliyya Sufi order.
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Modern-day proponents of kalām such as Nuh Ha Mim Keller, a Sheikh in the Shadili Sufi Order, hold that the criticism of kalām from early scholars was specific to the Mu'tazila, going on to claim that other historical Muslim scholars such as Al-Ghazali and An-Nawawi saw both good and bad in kalām and cautioned from the speculative excess of unorthodox groups such as the Mu'tazilah and Jahmites.
His second wife was Hind Al Fassi, a member of the Saudi Arabian al-Fassi family and daughter of Sheikh Shams ed-din Al Fassi, a Sufi religious leader from the Shadhili order, and grandson of Moroccan Sufi Imam al-Fassi, who had settled in Mecca in the late 18th-century.