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The Arabic root w-l-y of the word wali describes affinity and proximity between two parties, [1] and the word itself thus means one who is near and close, [2] as in guardian, [3] friend, helper, master, [4] or heir. [2] In a political context, wali is an individual who exercises political authority on behalf of a superior power (even God).
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 ...
Sufi saints or wali ... Ibn Ata Allah; Imam Ali-ul-Haq (925–971, buried in Sialkot). Ibrahim al-Dasuqi (1255–1296, buried in Desouk, founder of the Desouki order)
The shrine of Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyā (d. 1325) in Delhi, India, where he is honored as an Awliya Allah of the city; the shrine is the most popular site of Muslim pilgrimage in the Indian subcontinent The shrine of Aḥmad Yesewī (d. 1166) in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, where he is honored as an Awliya Allah of the country; the shrine was ...
In passing, Shah Wali Allah also surveys the rise and fall of the Muslim society during the different phases of caliphal history which, according to him, had always been commensurate with the degree of conformity or conflict between the pattern of khilafah and the criteria provided by the early normative model.
Qutb ud-Din Ahmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Rahim al-ʿUmari ad-Dehlawi (Arabic: قطب الدين أحمد بن عبد الرحيم العمري الدهلوي, romanized: Quṭb ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm al-ʿUmarī ad-Dehlawī ; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic Sunni scholar and Sufi reformer, [13] who contributed to Islamic ...
Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit."Biographies of the Saints") – variant transliterations: Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc. – is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints (wali, plural awliya) and their miracles authored by the Sunni Muslim Persian poet and mystic Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar of ...
Waliullah, also spelled Waliyullah, Valiullah, Valiollah (Arabic: ولي الله) is used as a male Muslim name and often a by-name, meaning 'Custodian of God' or 'Friend of Allāh.