Khalid al-Baghdadi (q) once said to his students: "We need heavenly powers, and they come from the light of the heart. We need to love everyone as we love ourself. That is what we need truly. We need to respect everyone. We need to be helpful with everyone, humble towards everyone. Be aware of this, and you will find that heavenly powers are open in front of you. I have been teaching you for forty or fifty years, and no one is doing something to tame his ego. (On the other hand)that unbeliever was able to gain miraculous powers - wordly powers - because he was doing something against his ego."

Khalid al-Baghdadi al-Uthmani as-Sulaymani (q) was born in the year 1193 H./1779 CE in the village of Karada of the city of Sulaymaniyyah in Iraq. He was the Reviver of the 13th Century of the Hijra. He spread the knowledge of both Islamic law and Tasawwuf. He was a mujtahid (authority) in Divine Law (shari`a) and in Divine Reality (Haqiqat). From 1224 H/1809 CE until 1228 H/1813 CE, Khalid al-Baghdadi moved and stayed in India. There he became a disciple of Shaykh `Abdullah Shah Ghulam`Ali ad-Dahlawi (q) who gave him written authority in five tariqats.

The first was the Naqshbandi Order, or the Golden Chain. The second was the Qadiri Order through Ahmad al-Faruqi's Shaykh Shah as-Sakandar and thence to Shaykh`Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, al-Junayd, as-Sirra as-Saqati, Musa al-Kazim, Ja`far as-Sadiq, Muhammad al-Baqir, Zain al-`Abideen, al-Husayn, al-Hasan, `Ali bin Abi Talib (kw), and Sayyidina Muhammad (s). The third was the Suhrawardiyya Order, which traced its silsila (chain) similarly to the Qadiriyya until al-Junayd, who went back to Hasan al-Basri and thence to Sayyidina `Ali (kw) and the Prophet (s). The fourth was the Kubrawiyya Order, which had the same lineage as the Qadiriyya but through Najm al-Din al-Kubra al-Khawarizmi (q). And the fifth was the Chishti Order through a line that went back from `Abdullah ad-Dahlawi and Jan Janan to Ahmad al-Faruqi and then through many Shaykhs to Mawrad Chishti, Nasir Chishti, Muhammad Chishti, and Ahmad Chishti to Ibrahim ibn Adham, Fudayl ibn al-`Iyad, Hasan al-Basri,
Sayyidina `Ali, and the Prophet (s).

Shaykh `Abdullah ad-Dahlawi (q) gave him authorization to teach all the Sciences of Hadith, Tafsir, Sufism, and the Daily Practices (awrad). Shaykh Kalid spread the knowledge inherited from `Abdullah ad-Dahlawi (q) and his forerunners in Baghdad, Hijaz and Sham. He sent his khalifs everywhere, from Hijaz to Iraq, from Sham (Syria) to Turkey, from Iran to India and Transoxania. Khalid al-Baghdadi al-Uthmani as-Sulaymani (q), as he had predicted before, died on the 13th of the Islamic month Dhul Qi'da, 1242 H/1827 CE in Sham (Syiria).

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