The Generations · The Friends of God
quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified
1292 – 1355 AH / 1875 – 1936
The master who led his people from the Caucasus to Anatolia and named ʿAbdullah al-Fa'iz his successor.
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.
