but were pious men. They performed for their era what living  sufis  can do to day for ours." [11] Death Hazrat  Abu Anees  Muhammad  Barkat  Ali  (QSA) died on Sunday the 26 th  of January 1997 (16 th  Ramadan-ul-Mubarak 1417 A.H.) at the time of  Zuhr salah , aged 85 years