The Generations · The Friends of God
quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified
1193 – 1242 AH / 1779 – 1827
Who journeyed from Iraq to India and back, renewing the path across the Ottoman lands as the Naqshbandi-Khalidi.
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.