His name was Barkatullah and was given title of Sahub-ul-Barkaat. He was born in 1660 in the town of Bilgiram, Hardoi. He was trained by his father Syed Owais and other scholars and saints. He inherited his unique Sufi temperament from his ancestors. Even before his demise, his father had permitted him to perform Sajjada Nashini and ancestral lineage and had also granted him Khilafah. He belonged to the Chishtia, Suhrawardia and Qadria line of Sufism. Barkatullah Pemi's grandfather made Marhara his hometown and also built a monastery there. After the death of his father, Barakatullah made Marhara his home and settled in his grandfather's monastery but he did not like the company of some mischievous and extremist people and laid the foundation of a modern population outside the town and He built a mosque and a monastery. This modern population was named Pemnagar Barakat Nagri. However, it is now known as Mian Ki Basti. He had immense devotion to Syed Shah Lutfullah. He was a famous scholar and thinker of his time. He also belonged to Balgram. When he visited Marhra, he traveled to Kalpi in absentia from Kalpi's shaykhs and obtained the caliphate from Shah Fazlullah Kalpi and received the title of Sahib al-Barakat. Shah Barakatullah was a leading scholar of his time in commentary, hadith, jurisprudence, meanings, mathematics, logic, philosophy and history and travel. He was a unique poet. He was fluent in both Persian and Hindi. His works are available in both languages. In Persian, he used to use the pseudonyms 'Ishqi' and in Hindi 'Pemi'. He has a Diwan called "Pem Prakash". In addition to this, there are Diwan-e-Ishqi, Risala-e-Jawab-o-Sawal, Riaz-e-Aashiqeen, Awaarif-e-Hindi, Bayaz-e-Batin, Bayaz-e-Zahir, Wasiyat-Nama, Risala-e-Takbir, and in Persian, Tafseer-e-Surah is his other compilation. Shah Barkatullah passed away on the night of Ashura on 10 Muharram 1729 in Marhra and was buried there.