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Ruzbihan Baqli (d1209) Shah-I-shathiyyat
(Commentary on Ecstatic Sayings) from Persia
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Taken from: Carl W. Ernst: The Shambhela Guide to Sufism
(He was a Sufi saint)(Taken from his description of the different saints through whom God governs the world).
He salutes the twelve thousand saints of India, Turkestan, Zanzibar, and Ethiopia: the four hundred elite in Anatolia, Khurasan, and Iran: the four hundred on the seacoast; the three hundred in lodges on the coasts of Egypt and the Maghrib; the seventy in different parts of Arabia; the forty in Iraq and Syria; the ten in Mecca, Medina, and the Ka'ba; the seven who travel the world; the three of whom one is in Persia, one in Anatolia, and one among the Arabs; and the ghawth or qutb who is the world axis.