



The author recounts various traditions connected with their use. A seventeenth-century Suhrawardi mystic of Ucch (Pakistan) composed a work called Jawahir al-Awliya (Jewels of the Saints), that contains an interesting chapter on the virtues and blessing powers of Sarkar-e-Madina Hadrat Muhammad's ( Salla Allahu ta'ala alayhi wa Sallam) ninety-nine names.
