[1] He belonged to one of the most influential noble households of the Middle East and Ottoman Empire, the Sheikhs of Tavil.
Sheikh Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn was the most important figure among Mavlana Halid's disciples even while Mevlana Khalid was still living in Baghdad.
The two men knew each other as students of Islamic sciences, and they met once again in Baghdad in 1811 during Mevlana Khalid's five-month stay in the mosque complex of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, shortly after his return from India.
"[6]He returned to Tawella and began to establish a strong base for the order, which became one of the most important centres for the Khalidi suborder in the whole Middle East and continued to be such until the 1950s.
[citation needed] The usually laconic Haydari writes: "He had many dazzling miracles and visible amazing supernatural deeds.
Many Jews and Christians were converted to Islam through his attentionand heed, followed the path in his lodge, and attained mystical states.