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The mausoleum of Ahmad Yasawi who was also considered a Sufi saint and poet in Turkistan, current day Kazakhstan.. Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1]
Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi (Arabic: خالد بن الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي, romanized: Khālid ibn al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra al-Makhzūmī; died 642) was a 7th-century Arab military commander.
The term wali (Arabic: وَلِيّ, romanized: waliyy, lit. 'friend'; plural أَوْلِيَاء , ʾawliyāʾ ) is most commonly used by Muslims to refer to a saint , or literally a "friend of God ".
Wali is an Arabic word meaning guardian, custodian, protector, or helper. In English, it most often means a Muslim saint or holy person. In English, it most often means a Muslim saint or holy person. It has sometimes been extended to mean the tomb or shrine of such a man.
If someone has been made wali, then they have full walayat (guardianship of faith) of them. Dawoodi Bohras believe walayah to be the most important of the seven pillars of Isma'ilism. It is the acceptance of guardianship of Allah, through His Da'i, Imam, Wasi (Wali), Ali and prophet Muhammad. To accept that Ali is wali of Allah is doing walayat ...
The founder of the Hanbali school, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, believed that the wali ijbar was the right of the father or, if there was no father of a judge (similar to Malik's position), with other imams that the role of a wali ikhtiyar "could be taken by all kinds of wali", not necessarily a relative on the father's side of the family. [14]
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Mehemet Ali Viceroy of Egypt, by Auguste Couder, 1841. Rostom (Rustam Khan), Safavid viceroy of Kartli, Georgia.. Wāli, Wā'lī or vali (from Arabic: والي Wālī) is an administrative title that was used in the Muslim world (including the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates and the Ottoman Empire) to designate governors of administrative divisions.