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شَاه وَلِي الله الدَّهْلَوِي

Shāh Walī Allāh ad-Dahlawī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

1114 – 1176 AH / 1703 – 1762

his portrait is written, not drawn

The renewer of the sciences in India, whose Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bāligha rethought the whole of the religion for his age.

stationWalī
born1114 AH
returned1176 AH

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