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شَقِيق الْبَلْخِي

Shaqīq al-Balkhī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

returned to his Lord 194 AH / 810

his portrait is written, not drawn

A companion of Ibrāhīm ibn Adham and pioneer of the science of reliance upon Allah (tawakkul) in Khurasan.

stationWalī
returned194 AH

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