Naqshbandi Golden Chain Afandi, Hasan Hilmi Afandi and the rest of the Daghestani Ma'zuns, as can be seen below. Naqshbandi Golden Chain The Naqshbandi Golden Chain is a lineage of spiritual masters of the Naqshbandi Sufi order related to each other going back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad It is a chain in which each scholar was given "ijazah" or permission for dhikr of God by his own teacher or pir to transmit the knowledge he had received to the next generation of students in the traditional manner of Sufi transmission. The Golden Chain, as different from all other Sufi lineages, is unique
Tree swallow as "Hirundo bicolor" by Louis Pierre Vieillot in his "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale", published in 1807. The genus it is currently placed in, "Tachycineta", was established by Jean Cabanis in 1850. This swallow is sometimes placed in the genus "Iridoprocne", along with the mangrove swallow, white-rumped swallow, white-winged swallow, and Chilean swallow. The placement was first made by Elliott Coues, on the basis of its plumage. The tree swallow is also called the white-bellied swallow, for its white underparts. The generally accepted genus name is from Ancient Greek "takhykinetos", "moving quickly", and the specific "bicolor" is Latin