The Generations · The Friends of God
quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified
1305 – 1379 AH / 1888 – 1959
The Turkish master who at the seal of this chain revived Qur'anic teaching across Anatolia in the early Republic, and whose community recites this Silsila-i Sadat to this day.
His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.