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Abul Abbas, al-Khidr

Abul Abbas, al-Khidr Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.The Prophet   said, ‘In this Way, you have no more faithful companions than your works.’How can these works and this earning in the way of righteousness...

Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Hamadani

Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Hamadani ق He was one of the rarest Knowers of God, a Pillar in the Sunnah of the Prophet and a unique saint. He was an imam (religious leader), an `alim (religious scholar), and an `arif (spiritual knower of God). He was the master of his time in...

Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bistami

Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bistami His Life Bayazid’s grandfather was a Zoroastrian from Persia. Bayazid made a detailed study of the statutes of Islamic law (shari`a) and practiced a strict regimen of self-denial (zuhd). All his life he was assiduous in the practice of his...

Jafar as-Sadiq

Ja`far as-Sadiq I have discovered — and exaggeration is not in my nature –that he who is my sustenance will come to me.I run to him, and my quest for him is agony for me.Were I to sit still, he would come to me without distress Urwa ibn Adhina The son of Imam Muhammad...

Abul Hassan Ali al-Kharqani

Abul Hassan Ali al-Kharqani ق Mayest Thou deign to be sweetness and let life be bitter!If Thou art content, what matter that men be angry.Let everything between me and Thee be cultivated,Between me and the worlds let all be desert!If Thy love be assured, all is then...