Mawlana Khalid Baghdadi Kurdi Naqshbandi (d.1242 AH)
Posted on April 15, 2016 by Talib Ghaffari
Hadrat Mawlānā Khālid al-Baghdādī ʻUthmānī Kurdī Shāfiʿī Naqshbandī Mujaddidī (d.1242 AH) qaddas-Allāhu sirrahū is one of the greatest Naqshbandi masters who spread and firmly established the noble Naqshbandi Sufi Order in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe. He was an illustrious deputy of the great Sufi saint of India Shāh ʿAbdullāh alias Ghulām-ʿAlī Dahlawī (d.1240 AH).
In his short life of 47 years, he not only achieved the highest qualifications of exoteric knowledge, but also gained sublime spiritual stations and spread this noble Path into the farthest areas of Earth including the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Indonesia and many other countries.
Contents
• 1 Biography
• 2 Defender of the Sunni Islam
• 3 Deputies
• 4 References
• 5 Links
• 6 Gallery
Biography
Mawlānā Khālid was born in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq in approximately 1190 AH (1779).
He died in Damascus, Syria on 11 Dhul-Qaʻdah 1242 AH (June 1827).
Defender of the Sunni Islam
Mawlānā Khālid was a great saint and an exalted scholar of the Sunni tradition, and always upheld the true path of Islam. He refuted and debated with the misguided sects. His students record that he was a brilliant debater and was hugely successful in his debates against the twelver Shia sect and always defeated them.
During his lifetime, the Wahhabi sect was emerging in the Arabia, fueled and funded by the European colonists. Europeans wanted to destroy the Ottoman caliphate, the last symbol of Islamic power, and followed their strategy of divide and conquer. They supported the Wahhabis against the Ottomans in the form of Arabian nationalism. The Wahhabis raided the holy cities of Islam Makkah and Madinah, and killed many innocent people including scholars and Sufi masters. They attacked and desecrated the holy places such as the noble tombs of the Sahaba and Ahl al-Bayt. Mawlānā Khālid ordered some of his disciples and deputies to take part in the defense of the holy cities and fight against the Wahhabi terrorists.
Deputies
Mawlānā Khālid trained thousands of disciples in the sublime Sufi Path of Naqshbandī Mujaddidī, and a number of them became his deputies and successors. These deputies traveled far and wide and spread this Sufi Order in many lands. Here I want to list the names of these great saints and their whereabouts.[1]
1. Mawlānā ʻAbbās Kuwaitī
2. Sayyid ʻAbdul-Ghafūr Baghdādī
3. Mawlānā ʻAbdullāh Hirātī, Afghanistan (died in 1240’s)
4. Sayyid ʻAbdullāh Jīlānī Hakkārī (died in 1250’s)
5. Shaykh ʻAbdullāh Makkī Arzinjānī (died in 1240’s)
6. Shaykh ʻAbdullāh ibn ʻAbdur-Rahmān Kurdī (died in 1240’s)
7. Sayyid ʻAbdul-Qādir Barzanjī
8. Shaykh ʻAbdul-Qādir Dimalānī
9. Shaykh ʻAbdur-Rahmān Kurdī, Syria
10. Mawlānā Abū-Bakr Baghdādī
11. Shaykh Ahmad Izmīrī, Turkey
12. Sayyid Ahmad Barzanjī (died in 1250’s)
13. Shaykh Ahmad al-Khatīb Arbīlī, khalīfa in Damascus
14. Mullā Ahmad Kurdī Hakkārī, Makkah
15. Shaykh ʻĀshiq Misrī, the last deputy of Mawlānā Khālid
16. Shaykh Mawlānā Hidāyatullāh Arbalī
17. Shaykh Husain ibn Ahmad Dūsarī Basarī Shāfiʻī (d.1250 AH/1834)
18. Shaykh ʻĪsā Kurdī
19. Shaykh Ismāʻīl Anārānī Kurdī (d.1242 AH)
20. Sayyid Ismāʻīl Barzanjī Kurdī, khalīfa in Madīnah
21. Shaykh Ismāʻīl Basarī
22. Shaykh Ismāʻīl Shirwānī
23. Shaykh Khālid Jazīrī
24. Shaykh Khās Muhammad Shirwānī
25. Shaykh Mahmūd as-Sāhib Uthmānī, Mawlānā Khālid’s brother
26. Shaykh Muhammad ibn Sulaimān Baghdādī Hanafī (d.1234 AH)
27. Shaykh Muhammad al-Imām, died during his master’s lifetime in 1230 AH, buried in Baghdad in the shrine of Junaid al-Baghdādī
28. Imām Muhammad Amīn Ibn-ʻĀbidīn Shāmī Hanafī (d.1252 AH/1836)
29. Shaykh Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Khānī
30. Mawlānā Muhammad Qazlarī
31. Shaykh Muhammad Sālih, Imam of Shāfiʻī Fiqh in Makkah
32. Mawlānā Mustafā ibn Jalāluddīn Kalʻanbarī
33. Shaykh Mūsā Bandanījī
34. Mawlānā Mūsā Jibūrī Baghdādī
35. Mullā Rasūl, Iran
36. Sayyid Tāhā Hakkārī Jīlānī
37. Sayyid Ubaydullāh Haydarī, Mufti of Baghdād
38. Shaykh ʻUthmān Sirājuddīn