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Name 77 of 99

Al-Wālī

الْوَالِي

The Governor

In short

Al-Wālī (الْوَالِي) is the 77th of the 99 Names of Allah. It means "The Governor".

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How the scholars invoke Al-Wālī.

  1. "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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