“He (Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi) was the Center of the Circle of Qutbs in his time…He memorized the Books of the Ithna Ashari (Twelve Imams), the source-books for the knowledge of the descendants of SayyidinaAli… “If Shaykh Khalid al-Baghdadi is not a believer, then who is a believer?” …(Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi said) “Whatever I have of secrets I have given to my deputy Isma`il ash-Shirwani. Whoever does not accept him is not from me…” ( http://naqshbandi.org/chain/31.htm, The Naqshbandi Sufi Way History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain, Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, KAZI Publications Inc., 1995)
