Meaning
A rank in the hidden hierarchy of saints, the chiefs said to govern the unseen spiritual order.
Literally: chiefs, headmen (plural)
Related words
ARABIC
Abdaal
A rank of hidden saints through whom, by tradition, God sustains the order of the world.
ARABIC
Aqtaab
The spiritual poles or axial saints of an age (plural of qutb) around whom the hidden hierarchy turns.
ARABIC
Autaad
The four pillar-saints who, in Sufi cosmology, anchor and stabilise the spiritual world.