Al-Walī
الْوَلِيُّThe Protecting Friend
In short
Al-Walī (الْوَلِيُّ) is the 55th of the 99 Names of Allah. It means "The Protecting Friend". In the Qurʾān it occurs in Ash-Shūrā 42:28.
Qurʾān: Ash-Shūrā 42:28
How the scholars invoke Al-Walī.
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"of Jafar al-Sadiq. May Allah be pleased with him. Within Bustam also lies the grave of the pious Sheikh al-Wali, Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani. I lodged in Sheikh Abu Yazid al-Bistami's zawiya. From there, we traveled via the Koshkan route to Kanduz and Baghlan, villages inhabited by teachers and pious individuals, blessed with gardens and rivers."
— Ibn Battuta, Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East
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