Sahibzada Pir Atiqullah Bakoti

Sahibzada Pir Atiqullah Bakoti is elder son of Hadhrat Molana Pir Fakir-u-llah Bakoti and was the first scholar of Islam from Circle Bakote who was educated at Darul Uloom Deoband, Deoband, India between 1926-30.

He born in 1910 at Bakot and early education was received in Vernacular Primary School Bakot. He obtained the priesthood from his father Hadhrat Molana Pir Fakir-u-llah Bakoti but he was disturbed by the death of his first wife. His son Sahibzada Iftekhar Ahmed Bakoti (Makhen Pir) was in the age of only one and a half year at the time of his mother death in 1936.

He married again with daughter of Molana Mean Mir Ji Chief of the Alvi Awan of Birote and also migrated there in 1948 where his second son Sahibzada Saeed Anwar Bakoti (Chan Pir) was borne. At that time he was in critical mental condition and died in 1957 in Bakote. He left four sons and one daughter.