The Generations · The Friends of God
quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified
352 – 425 AH / 963 – 1033
An unlettered master of overwhelming states who received from Bayazid across time; his lodge was a refuge for seekers of Khurasan.
His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.
Days of the Islamic calendar kept in his memory — each opens in the prayer book.
