Afjal Shah, who was a disciple and Khalifa of Abul Hasan, initiated Khan's mother in the Naqshbandi Order.
The majority of the residents of Kahatowita follow Sufi Tariqas.
The Initiation ceremony is routine and consists of reading chapter 1 of the Quran followed by a single phrase prayer.
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Tariqas were brought to China in the 17th century by Ma Laichi and other Chinese Sufis who had studied in Mecca and Yemen, and had also been influenced by spiritual descendants of the Kashgarian Sufi master Afaq Khoja.
The masters or early predecessors of the Ba'Alawi Tariqa are also mainly buried in the grounds of Tarim and thus up to this day, their shrines form part of the necessary destinations for visitors to Hadramaut.
The Khatmiyya is a Sufi order or tariqa founded by Sayyid Mohammed Uthman al-Mirghani al-Khatim.
However, Sheikh Muhammed Rashid didn’t transmit this Tidjani order ( Tariqa ) of Sufism at all.