Head of the line.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

And there he is,Hazrat Abu Bakr, radiallahu anhu ... head of the line,beginning of the tariqah. Hey! Nothing there but the slave and his need! Reminds one of the picture of Sheikh Abdullah as an old man holding out his hands in supplication and in them are nothing but a tasbih and a miswak (the only"tools of the trade"!).