Abdul Qadir Gilani (Ghawth al-Azam)
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Abdul Qadir Gilani (Ghawth al-Azam) 🇮🇷

عبد القادر الجيلاني (Known as "Abdul Qadir Gilani")
Founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi Order, Hanbali Theologian, Supreme Spiritual Preacher of Baghdad
Born 23 March 1077 CE 🇮🇷 Gilan, Iran
Passed Away 21 February 1166 CE Baghdad, Iraq
Lifespan 88 years old
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"Do not let your heart be distracted by sorrow over what has passed or anxiety for what is to come. Be with God without creation, and with creation without self."

Archival Overview

Celebrated across the Islamic world as "Ghawth al-Azam" (The Greatest Succor). Hanbali jurist and master preacher whose spiritual assembly in Baghdad founded the Qadiriyya—the earliest worldwide Sufi fraternal order.

Biographical Record

Departing Gilan in northern Persia at age eighteen, Gilani studied Hanbali law in Abbasid Baghdad before spending twenty-five years wandering the Iraqi desert in solitary contemplative asceticism. Returning to Baghdad in 1127, his public sermons at the Bab al-Azaj madrasa attracted thousands of listeners.

His discourses, recorded in Futuh al-Ghayb (Revelations of the Unseen) and Al-Ghunya, emphasized absolute reliance on God (Tawakkul), humility, and feeding the destitute, establishing welfare lodges that sheltered travelers across Afro-Eurasia.

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Final Resting Place

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Mosque and Mausoleum of Abdul Qadir Gilani
Baghdad, Iraq
GPS: 33.3361, 44.4019
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