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His full name is Muhammad Nazim ‘Adil ibn al-Sayyid Ahmad ibn Hasan Yashil Bash al-Haqqani al-Qubrusi al-Hanafi, may Allāhﷻ sanctify his soul and preserve his secret.

He was the Grand Mufti of Turkish Cyprus. He was born in 1341 (1922) in the city of Larnaca, Cyprus (Qubrus) to a family of Arab origin with Tatar roots. His father descended from the Cardinal Saint of Islam, Sultan al Awliya Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani; who declared “My foot is on the necks of all Saints”. His mother descends from Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi.

He grew up in Cyprus, as a top student in all of his classes and he also showed great signs of Wilayat throughout his youth. As a youth, he was initiated and trained in both the Qadri and Mevlavi Paths. He excelled in both of these to the extent that elders would come to visit him and ask him to make Istakharah for them regarding various matters concerning their personal lives.

It has been noted that in every encounter with the Awliya’ and righteous Ulema of this Ummah, they invariably showed the highest respect and most fearsome humbleness towards Mawlana and his Tariqah even when they are ostensibly on a different path.

May Allāhﷻ allow Mawlana Shaykh Nazim to drink from the Basin of His Prophet ﷺ, that he may never thirst thereafter, and may He enter him into the highest gardens of Paradise!

آمِيْن بِجَاهِ النَبِىٍ الاَمِيْن ﷺ