Dhikrullah is held daily in the Haqqani retreat center mosque. The daily spiritual "workout" begins with warmup "exercises" before dawn (tahajjud prayers), continues thru the dawn prayers and liturgy and is followed up by calisthenics or seni silat haqq training under the early morning sun. Then breakfast is served. This is followed by the rest of the busy daily schedule.
Shaykh
Hisham takes a stroll |
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A visitor to the
retreat center greets Shaykh Hisham with the traditional Islamic gesture of respect to shaykhs. |
Meanwhile, Abdul Haqq, the caretaker, is busy trimming the vast swards of grass and alfalfa.
Dhikrullah in the Naqshbandi tradition was held frequently at the Ann Arbor zawiya. Each visit by the shaykh held its grant of God's Grace (baraka) for the attendees, and there was not one in which several shahadas were not taken.
Here the men pose for a snapshot in the Ann Arbor zawiya. Seated to Shaykh Hisham's right is Mawlana Abdus Sattar Khan Naqshbandi of Hyderabad, India.
On one of several visits to Chicago, Shaykh Hisham leads the khatm-i-Khawagan, recollection of God, at the Naqshbandi Center on Belmont.
