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أَبُو إِسْحَاق الشَّامِي الْچِشْتِي

Abū Isḥāq ash-Shāmī al-Chishtī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

returned to his Lord 329 AH / 940

his portrait is written, not drawn

The master who settled in Chisht and gave the Chishti order its name, carrying the way from the Levant to Khurasan.

stationWalī
returned329 AH

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.