A'la-Hazrat

Template:Other Template:Redirect A'la-Hazrat (Classical Persian: Template:Lang Template:Transliteration)Template:Efn for a man, or Template:'Ulya-Hazrat (Classical Persian: Template:Lang Template:Transliteration)Template:Efn for a woman, is a form of address used in the Persian language as well as in languages of the Persianate world including Turkic languagesTemplate:Efn and Urdu.Template:Efn It is a compound of the words Template:Lang aʿlā, from Arabic Template:Lang ʾaʿlā (feminine: Template:Lang ʿulyā), and Persian Template:Lang ḥażrat, from Arabic Template:Lang ḥaḍra. Its literal meaning is 'the presence of the most high', and it is equivalent to Majesty in English.

The form of address has also been used in reference to some Islamic scholars such as Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (1817–1899), Shah Abdul Wahhab (1831–1921) and Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921).