 The 92-year-old celibate Shaikh Yang Shijun was the leader of the Qadiriya order in China as of 1998.Celibacy is practiced by Haydariya Sufi dervishes.The spiritual teacher Meher Baba stated that "[F]or the [spiritual] aspirant a life of strict celibacy is preferable to married life, if restraint comes to him easily without undue sense of self-repression.