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al-Junayd al-Baghdadi
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The son of a glass-merchant, he took up selling glasses in Baghdad. Every day he would go to the shop and draw down the blind and perform four hundred rak'as. After a time he abandoned the shop and withdrew to a room in the porch of Sari's house, where he busied himself with polishing his heart.
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"I learned sincere belief from a barber," Jonaid recalled, and he told the following story.
Once when I was in Mecca, a barber was trimming a gentleman's hair. I said to him, "For the sake of Allah, can you shave my hair?"
"I can," he said. His eyes filling with tears, he left the gentleman still unfinished.
"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, everything else must wait."
"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, everything else must wait."
He seated me and kissed my head, and shaved off my hair. Then he gave me a screw of paper with a few small coins in it.
"Spend this on your needs," he said.
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