Pir Pagaro

Sayyid Sibghatullah Shah Al-Rashidi II, the sixth Pir Pagaro, was the hereditary spiritual leader of the Hurs, a Sufi Muslim community of Sindh whose name, from the Arabic ḥurr, means "free".¹ He succeeded his father to the seat in 1922, at about the age of twelve, and held it until 1943.¹ His followers gave him the title Soreh Badshah, the Victorious King.¹

He was a champion of Hindu-Muslim unity, initially supporting the Indian National Congress and then Subhas Chandra Bose's All India Forward Bloc; in Bose's original plan presented to the Axis powers, the Pir of Pagaro and the Faqir of Ipi were to be armed to liberate India.¹ He preached that only when Hindus and Muslims combined would peace be achieved, and that Indians had to be "national minded" and regard India as a country belonging to all its inhabitants.¹ During the Manzilgah controversy riots he ordered his armed followers, the ghazis, to protect Hindus.¹

The British colonial government hanged him on 20 March 1943 in the Central Jail at Hyderabad, Sindh; Wikidata records the manner of death as capital punishment by hanging.¹² His burial place remains unknown, despite requests to the government from people in Sindh.¹ His birth year is given variously — 1910 by the article, 1909 by Wikidata, 1908 by the harvest queue — and is carried as debated in his record.¹²

What is attested is an office and a community: he inherited the pir seat as a boy, and the community he led is described as Sufi.¹ No text read attests his own initiation, discipleship or teaching line, and no order is named for him personally. Headship by descent is not a personal attestation, so his faith is recorded as unknown, flagged, with the attestation preserved in his record for the founder's ruling.