 The famous historian Arnold J. Toynbee in his book "Between Oxus and Jumna" writes,

"…the tomb under whose shadow I am now writing ... is the tomb of Shah Yousaf Gardezi.I am being entertained in the Gardezi family's 'Dewan-Khanah', their family guest house, and the tomb, with the tombs of the saints descendants clustering round it, is only a stone's-throw away.Being named Joseph, I (like Stalin) am this saint's namesake, but I cannot claim also to be a 'Shah'; for, in Pakistan, 'Shah' signifies a Sayid