The Generations · The Friends of God
quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified
His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.
It is related that a Zoroastrian was told to convert to Islam. He said, “If Islam is what Bayazid ق does, I don’t have the strength for it and I can’t do it. If it’s what you do, I don’t have any need of it.
Farīd-ud-dīn Attār ق. Quoted from Tadhkirāt al-Awliya. Translation by Paul Losensky.
