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Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1] In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor ...
St. John or Saint John [3] is a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The town of St. John has homes in St. John Township, Hanover Township, and Center Township. It is a southeastern suburb of Chicago. St. John was founded in 1837. The population was 14,850 at the 2010 census. In 2009, St. John ranked 48th among CNN's top 100 places to ...
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 39.37 square miles (102.0 km 2), of which 39.2 square miles (102 km 2) (or 99.57%) is land and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km 2) (or 0.43%) is water. [4] The township includes the towns of Dyer, Schererville and St. John as well as the unincorporated areas of these towns. [7]
Muhammad Ghawth (Ghouse, [1] Ghaus or Gwath [2] [3]) Gwaliyari (1500–1562) was a 16th-century Sufi master of the Shattari order and Sufi saint, a musician, [4] and the author of Jawahir-i Khams (Arabic: al-Jawahir al-Khams, The Five Jewels). The book mentioning the life and miracles of Gaus named " Heaven's witness" was written by Kugle.
Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn was born in the village called Tawella in Ottoman Empire known for the loyalty of its people, the smell of their fragrances and cleanness of its water. His life was made up of habitual recitation of the Quran for which he was renowned and exceptional, and memorising the noble Quran and the religious knowledges.
Sayyid Badiuddin [192] was a Sufi saint who founded the Madariyya Silsila and order. [193] He was also known by the title Qutb-ul-Madar. [194] He hailed originally from Syria, and was born in Aleppo [192] to a Syed Hussaini family. [195] His teacher was Bayazid Tayfur al-Bistami. [196]
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili (Arabic: أبو الحسن الشاذلي) (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥasanī wal-Ḥusaynī al-Shādhilī) also known as Sheikh al-Shadhili (593–656 AH) (1196–1258 AD) was an influential Moroccan Islamic scholar and Sufi, founder of the Shadhili Sufi order.
Tomb of Sufi saint Shaikh Salim Chisti in Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh. Sufis (Islamic mystics) played an important role in the spread of Islam in India. They were very successful in spreading Islam, as many aspects of Sufi belief systems and practices had their parallels in Indian philosophical literature, in particular nonviolence and monism ...