Fardan Ahmed on Instagram: "For the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh who drank deeply from the well of Sufism, influence of Sarmad Kashani was quite clear. 'My spiritual mentor, every day I have the urge to serve you which is unattained.' Sarmad's story is all about defiance. And audacity. He had begun life as a merchant in Baghdad before wandering across the Persian-speaking world to India. He descended from learned rabbis, studied rabbinical creed and Torah. But after having studied Islam with gents