Who was placed at the highest station in the hierarchy of objects receiving light emanating from God (farr-i izadi) by Abu'l Fazl?

Mughal Kinship

Abu’l Fazl placed the Mughal kingship as the highest station in the hierarchy of objects receiving light emanating from God (farr-i izadi ). Here he was inspired by a famous Iranian sufi, Shihabuddin Suhrawardi (d. 1191) who first developed this idea. According to this idea, there was a hierarchy in which the Divine Light was transmitted to the king who then became the source of spiritual guidance for his subjects.