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Wakil (Arabic: وكيل, wakīl) is the Arabic word for an advocate, agent, and a trustee. The latter meaning, along with the name Disposer of affairs, is used as one of the names of God in the Qur'an. Al-Wakil is usually considered the 52nd or the 53rd name of God and it is mentioned in Qur'an multiple times (for example 3:173).
Thus began a period of about seventy years, later termed the Minor Occultation (al-ghaybat al-sughra, 260-329 AH, 874–940 CE), during which it is believed that four successive agents who represented the Hidden Imam. [29] An agent (wakil) was variously called deputy (na'ib), emissary (safir), and gate (bab). [30]
Vakil, Wakil, or variants can refer to: Terms relating to Islamic delegates or administrators: Vakil, a historical administrative position in Safavid Iran; Vekil (also called "Vakel"), the Ottoman term for representatives or delegates; Wakil, a deputy or delegate in Islamic law; Al-Wakil, the Arabic word for an advocate, agent, or trustee
El-Wakil shared the award with his mason Ala-el-Din Moustafa who was one of the master masons to build Hassan Fathy's village in Gourna. In 1985, he received the King Fahd Award for Research in Islamic Architecture. In 1986, El-Wakil's work was recognized by the American Institute of Architects and was made Honorary Fellow at San Antonio in Texas.
Vekil or Vakil was the term used for the deputies and de facto prime ministers of the Mughal Emperor in Mughal administration.He was considered the most powerful person after Emperor in the Mughal Empire. [1]
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Supreme Leader of the government is a wali al-faqih (guardian jurist), under the principle advanced by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that "in the absence of an infallible Imam", Islam gives a just and capable Islamic jurist "universal" or "absolute" authority over all people, including adult males.
Meanwhile, al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (d. 869), the most significant ninth-century expositor of the doctrine, posited six common attributes of true saints (not necessarily applicable to all, according to the author, but nevertheless indicative of a significant portion of them), which are: (1) when people see him, they are automatically reminded of ...
He believed that the Quranic injunction to "enjoin good and forbid evil" (al-amr bi-l-maʿrūf wa-n-nahy ʿani-l-munkar, found in Quran 3:104, Quran 3:110, and other verses) was the duty of every state functionary with charge over other Muslims, from the caliph to "the schoolmaster in charge of assessing children's handwriting exercises."