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Mai Safoora
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|name            = Mai Safoora [[Qadiriyya]]
|image           = Mai Safoora mazar.png
|caption         = The mazar/shrine of Mai Safoora Qadiriyya
|birth_name      = Safoora
|birth_date      = 
|death_date      = 1795
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'''Rabia Zaman Mai Safoora Qadiriyya (r.a)''' '''(رابعہ زماں حضرت مائی صفورہ قادریہ رحہ)''' or Mai Safoora was a holy [[Sufi]] lady of southern Punjab.
Her modesty and piousness are described by many contemporary historians.
Her Sufi position was accepted by the poet Ali Haider who previously believed that "a woman can't become Sufi"{{citation needed}}.

== Life ==

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She was born in Jarala (a place in present [[Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]){{citation needed}}. According to tradition, she was of Arab descent, her grandfather being one Abu'il'Fateh{{citation needed}}, who was an Arab merchant and a Qadiri Sufi by denomination{{citation needed}}. In her childhood, she got formal religious education in Islam and also learnt three languages, Punjabi, Persian and Arabic. In addition, she also obtained spiritual-mystical training. 

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== References ==
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[[Category:Punjabi people]]
[[Category:Muslims]]

[[en:Mai Safoora Qadiriyya]]