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ضِيَاء الدِّين خَالِد الْبَغْدَادِي

Ḍiyāʾ ad-Dīn Khālid al-Baghdādī ash-Shāmī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

1193 – 1242 AH / 1779 – 1827

his portrait is written, not drawn

Who journeyed from Iraq to India and back, renewing the path across the Ottoman lands as the Naqshbandi-Khalidi.

stationWalī
born1193 AH
returned1242 AH
day keptOne

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

His Daysأَيَّامُهُ

Urs of Khalid al-Baghdadi13 Dhū al-Qaʿda

Days of the Islamic calendar kept in his memory — each opens in the prayer book.