Rezvan E. On the History of ‘Ishqiyya Brotherhood Sacred Relics. I: the Khirqa of the Prophet // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 8. No. 2. June 2002. P. 10—11.
Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, reports from
Afghanistan speak of a Muslim holy relic, the khirqa-yi
mubārak (“blessed mantle”). Perhaps the only known images
of Ṭālibān leader Mūllā ‘Umar are the internationally
famous pictures of him receiving the khirqa of the Prophet,
which sanctifies his power and underscores the messianic
role assigned to him and the ṭālihhaye karam (“merciful ṭālibs“), chosen to carry out the mission of the farishta-yi
najāt, angels who liberate the world’s Muslims from the
godless West. The very appearance of the Ṭālibān was
called an ‘urūj (raising). The Emirate they created was
only the first step on the path to creating a world-wide caliphate,
a task they stressed with their ritual “coronation”
and ceremonial presentation of the blessed khirqa to the
“renewer of the faith” (mujaddid), Mūllā ‘Umar...
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