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Muhammad Hussein Baksh ,commonly known as Baba Malang Sahib, was born to Ghulam Muhammad and Churaan Bebe in 1921 in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) of British India. He was the descendent of General Yaar Muhammad, the son of celebrated Sufi saint Shah Muhammad and one of the most faithful Commander-in-Chiefs of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. He was the fourth in the line of succesion from Baba Jyoti Shah, the celebrated Sufi saint and poet of Punjab. He belong to the Chisti order of Sufis.

Hussain’s father was extremely relegious person who use to send him to local ‘Madrassa’ (Islamic school), for learnig Quranic education while his mother was a liberal Sufi lady. She was the student of famous saint Maulvi Ghulam Rasool of Alampur Kotla (Hosiarpur). After her marrige she came to live in his husabands house near Nanda Chaur (Hoshiarpur) and became the pupil of Baba Jyoti Shah and Sant Baba Narayan Das, the two outstanding Sufi-Sants of their time. She died when Hussain was quite young. After her death and according to her will, Enayat Shah Zeldar, the caliph of Baba Jyoti Shah, took the responsibility of teaching the young Hussain. But he was too old thus he, soon, made his disciple Maoj Deen the new teacher of Hussain. This was the man who first time called Hussain a Malang, a term used for enlighted and dauntless Sufis and qalandars.

Maoj Deen was the friend of famous poet Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. Once Iqbal was sitting with Maoj Deen when Malang Hussain arrived. Maoj Deen said to Iqbal 'there comes my Shaheen'. Malang met Iqbal and both admired each other.

Malang use to meet Baba Sawan Singh and Sanat Baba Narayan Das and respect them as his Gurus.

In about 1934, the young Hussain came Lahore, from Hoshiarpur. After spending four to fives years in Lahore, Malang got job in the British Indian Railways, Lahore. Maoj Deen was also an employ of the Railways thus both enjoyed each other’s company. Maoj taught Hussain like a benevolence friend and comrade. Malang Hussain had due respect in his heart for Maoj Deen and love him more than his father. To him, his father gave him life but his teacher gave him the way to led life. Malang was the favourite disciple of Maoj Din. He was the ‘Shaheen of Maoj Deen’ who latter became his caliph.

Malang was a revoltionary Sufi. He had closed comradeship with revolutionary leaders like Dada Amir Haider, Massod Khadarpoosh and Dr. Aziz Shaheed. He was a keen supporter of proletariat's revolution. To Comrade Dr. Aziz he was the "Incarnation of Karl Marx". Aziz, also, use to call him "Our Guru". During the partition of British India, Malang's moral support was with Bhagat Sing and Subhas Chandra Bose, the famous Indian revolutionaries

Malang was the greatest humanist of his time. In 1947, at the time of the partition of the British India, Malang saved the lives of many Sikhs and Hindus from the hands of extremist Muslims and helped them to reach their destinations in India.. To him ‘humanity is the best relegion’. According to him all human beings, and all other creatures too, belong to one class. He so much love animals and birds that he never wore leather-made sleepers and never ate meat.

Malang died on October 31,1995 in Lahore due to a lung disease. He is buried in Mughalpural next to his beloved teacher Maoj Deen.