Hadrat
Hadrat (حضرة, DMG ḥaḍrat / ḥaḍra ; Turkish Hazreti ) literally means “present”. This is a form of address that expresses great respect and has the following meanings:
- your honor to a high official
- at a clergy reverence
- to a king your majesty
- In the case of the names of prophets , their companions, imams and their descendants, or of saints (mostly Sufis ), it expresses the holiness of the person in the sense of “the one called by God”
- ḥaḍra (present, presence) is also a term for communal forms of Dhikr .
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