Editing Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (section)

=== Early life ===
Shahi was born on 25 November 1941 in the village of [[Dhok Gohar Shah]] in the district of [[Rawalpindi]] of [[British India]]. He is a fifth generation descendant of the [[Sufi]] Baba Gohar Ali Shah.

At the age of twenty, when he was the owner of F.Q. Steel Industries, Shahi began to search for [[spirituality]]. Eventually he became disillusioned in this search and returned to work. Shahi then married and had three children.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Religion of God|last=Gohar Shahi|first=Riaz Ahmed|year=2000|publisher=Balboa Press|location=United States|isbn=978-1-45254-908-8|pages=71|access-date=13 July 2013|url=http://bookstore.balboapress.com/Products/SKU-000528516/the-religion-of-god-divine-love.aspx|archive-date=24 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424022931/http://bookstore.balboapress.com/Products/SKU-000528516/The-Religion-of-God-Divine-Love.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1975, he went to [[Sehwan]] for self-mortification; he spent a period of three years in the mountains of Sehwan Sharif and the forest of Laal Bagh in self-purification, "for the sake of God's love".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Religion of God|last=Gohar Shahi|first=Riaz Ahmed|year=2000|publisher=Balboa Press|location=United States|isbn=978-1-45254-908-8|pages=xi|access-date=1 July 2012|url=http://bookstore.balboapress.com/Products/SKU-000528516/the-religion-of-god-divine-love.aspx|archive-date=24 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424022931/http://bookstore.balboapress.com/Products/SKU-000528516/The-Religion-of-God-Divine-Love.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>