Syed Shah Mehr Ali Alquadri Al Baghdadi, commonly known as "Syedena Aala Huzur", was a famous saint of Bengal.
It is claimed that he was a descendant of Abdul Qadir Gilani and that his ancestors migrated from the city of Baghdad to the remote town of Mangalkot in the district of Bardhaman in Bengal.
Within a short span of time he acquired mastery over the commentaries of the Quran, the hadith of Muhammad, the principle of Islamic law and all sorts of religious sciences.
He could speak Arabic fluently as it was his mother tongue and quote entire verses of Persian mystic poets.
Thus it can be said without doubt that Syedena Aala Huzur s’ fame spread throughout the Islamic world and his contribution in making the Quadria order popular in Bengal was enormous.
There is a famous incident of Syedena Aala Huzur that once a person posing himself as a religious scholar came from an upcountry with a cart loaded with books to his Khanqah.
At the outskirt of the town in the lonely forest inhabited by ravenous beasts and harmful animals he sat in deep meditation of the Almighty Allah.
She was from the descendant of Syed Isa Rizvi, a great saint who came from Bukhara and settled at Payardanga in the district of Midnapore.
[5] Although married and entangled with social duties Syedena Aala Huzur continued his spiritual exercise of austerity and mortification.
The youngest son Syed Shah Wali Murshed also known as ‘Qutb ul Waqt’ is counted among the greatest saints of his time.