Post by Noori on Apr 14, 2022 23:18:21 GMT 5
Sari al-Saqati
Abū al-Ḥasan Sarī (al-Sirrī) bin al-Mughallis al-Saqaṭī (867 CE) also known as Sirri Saqti (Arabic: سري السقطي) was one of the early Muslim Sufi saints of Baghdad. He was one of the most influential students of Maruf Karkhi and one of the first to present Sufism (tasawwuf) in a systematic way. He was also a friend of Bishr al-Hafi. He was the maternal uncle and spiritual master of Junayd of Baghdad.
He was a Sufi who preferred others to himself, saying, "I wish everyone would feel relieved even if I suffered from them".
As a matter of fact, according to a legend, when he heard that his own shop was not burned after a fire in the bazaar, he was grateful to Allah saying, "Alhamdulillah", but because he did not share the sorrows of those whose shops were burned, he realized that he had made a mistake and begged God's forgiveness for thirty years.