Shaqiq al-Balkhi was an early Sufi saint of the Khorasan school.
Tradition makes him the disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham.
He emphasized the importance of tawakkul or reliance upon God.
He was a student of Abu Hanifa and a lifelong companion of his classmate and later Abbasid chief justice Abu Yusuf.
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“Depend more on the promises of God than those of men.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 33
