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The son of a glass-merchant, he took up selling glasses in Baghdad. Every day he would go to the shop and draw down the blind and perform four hundred rak'as. After a time he abandoned the shop and withdrew to a room in the porch of Sari's house, where he busied himself with polishing his heart.

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"I learned sincere belief from a barber," Jonaid recalled, and he told the following story.

Once when I was in Mecca, a barber was trimming a gentleman's hair. I said to him, "For the sake of Allah, can you shave my hair?"

"I can," he said. His eyes filling with tears, he left the gentleman still unfinished.

"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, everything else must wait."

"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, everything else must wait."

He seated me and kissed my head, and shaved off my hair. Then he gave me a screw of paper with a few small coins in it.

"Spend this on your needs," he said.

I thereupon resolved that the first present that came my way I would give him in charity. Not long

Junayd of Baghdad

Persian Islamic mystic and Sufi saint (830–910)

Abu 'l-Qasim al-Junayd ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi

Junayd of Baghdad invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from "Breaths of intimacy" (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jami (d. 1492). Persian-language manuscript created in Ottoman-held Baghdad, dated 1595

TitleSayyid at-Taifa
Born830

Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate

Died910 (aged 79–80)

Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate

Main interest(s)Sufism, Tassawuf, ishq, theology, philosophy, logic, fiqh
Notable idea(s)Ishq[clarification needed]
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi[1]

Junayd of Baghdad (Persian: جُنیدِ بَغدادی; Arabic: الجنيد البغدادي) was a Persian[4][5] mystic and one of the most famous of the early Islamic saints. He is a central figure in the spiritual lineage of many Sufi orders.

Junayd taught in Baghdad throughout his lifetime and was an important figure in the development of Sufi doctrine. Like Hasa

Sufi Biography: Abol-Qasem-al-Jonaid (Junaid Baghdadi)

Sufi Biography: Abol-Qasem-al-Jonaid (Junaid Baghdadi)

Abo ‘l-Qasem al-Jonaid ibn Mohammad al- Khazzaz al-Nehawandi, son of a glass-merchant and nephew of Sari al-Saqati, close associate of al-Mohasebi, was the greatest exponent of the ‘sober’ school of Sufism and elaborated a theosophical doctrine which determined the whole course of orthodox mysticism in Islam. He expounded his theories in his teachings, and in a series of letters written to various contemporaries which have survived. The head of a large and
influential school, he died in Baghdad in 298 (910).

The early years of Jonaid-e Baghdadi

From childhood Jonaid was given to spiritual sorrow, and was an earnest seeker after God, well disciplined,
thoughtful and quick of understanding and of a penetrating intuition.

 

One day he returned home from school to find his father in tears.
“What happened?” he enquired.
“I took something by way of alms to your uncle Sari,” his father told him. “He would not accept it. I am weeping because I have given my whole

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