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Itik\u0101f<\/em> in the time of the Prophet (\ufdfa) was done in the last 10 days of Ramadan. The most important aspect of `itik\u0101f<\/em>\u00a0 is to separate yourself from your spouse. That is the primary characteristic in `itik\u0101f–<\/em> that there are no intimate relations\u00a0 when you are in `itik\u0101f<\/em>. Therefore they used to go to the mosque as that is theonly place to achieve that aspect while in the presence of the Prophet (\ufdfa).<\/p>\n People today like to do `itik\u0101f<\/em> in their home. In that case husband and wife can stay in separate rooms. That is `itik\u0101f<\/em>. It means you have decided to enter into a heavy training seeking to always be in the Divine Presence, not to be in the dunya<\/em>.<\/p>\n `Itik\u0101f<\/em> is a step before khalwah <\/em>and it trains us to be able to be in khalwah<\/em> for 40 days. The intent is to be in the Divine Presence. That is your goal: It is Allah (\ufdfb) and his Prophet (\ufdfa). So your shaykh will assign some awr\u0101d for <\/em>you to do in order that you can achieve some kind of polishing of yourself to enable you in the future to enter khalwah<\/em>. If you keep `itik\u0101f <\/em>well it enables you to reach a true understanding of khalwah<\/em>.<\/p>\n Itik\u0101f<\/em> is very important because it will put you on that journey towards Allah (\ufdfb). `Akafa<\/em> `alaa shay<\/em> in Arabic means to turn towards that thing and keep it without changing , being constant in doing it. When you say `aakiftu \u0101kul ath-thamr<\/em>, It means I turned to the decision of always eating dates. `Akafa <\/em>is to do something constantly, non-stop. So for that ten days the intention of `itik\u0101f<\/em> is “I decide to turn towards my Lord in these ten days and be away from any disturbance or any connection with other than the Divine Presence.”<\/p>\n The Sahaba used to stay in the mosque, but if there was something important to attend to, for which they had to go to their houses, they would do so. Thus, it is not full-time seclusion. If they needed to take a shower, they would go home, take a shower and return. SImilarly, we observe this rule.<\/p>\n The most important aspect of` itik\u0101f<\/em> \u00a0is that there be no marital relations between husband and wife. As for food, they can eat anything in `itik\u0101f<\/em>, it is not restricted, whereas in khalwah<\/em> you eat only one thing \u2013 lentils.<\/p>\n The person in `itik\u0101f<\/em> must busy himself or herself in the last 10 days or Ramadan in excessive worship, day and night. They must be very knowing in ways to protect themselves from all negative whispering of Shaytan in the ears.<\/p>\n The first principle to observe is to avoid talking as much as possible. Mu`takifeen<\/em> are allowed to talk about anything Islamic. They can listen to talks on Islam, ask questions, listen to hadith and so forth, but it must be dedicated to non-worldly, non-dunya aspects. <\/em>There is no need to talk about going to Wal-mart or to talk about the toys you will buy your children for Eid. All the focus is Allah and His Prophet (\ufdfa).<\/p>\n One begins the first day before Maghrib, as in the view of Awliy\u0101ullah <\/em>a day, 24 hours, begins at Maghrib. Therefore two hours before Maghrib make ablution on the niyyah<\/em> of `itik\u0101f.<\/em><\/p>\n The day before the last 10 days of Rama\u013c\u0101n at `Asr time make the following niyyah:<\/em><\/p>\n “I am intending to do `itik\u0101f<\/em> on behalf of myself, my ncestors, and my children asking Support from the Prophet (\ufdfa), Grand Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani (\u0642), Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al Haqqani (\u0642), from Shaykh Hisham (\u0642), and from Awliya<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Then present the reward of the `itikaf<\/em> as a gift\u00a0 to Prophet (\ufdfa), to Ahl al-Bayt<\/em>, to Awliya<\/em>, Grand Shaykh, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and Shaykh Hisham, and further to anyone you wish.<\/p>\n Then enter and sit in the mosque\u00a0and begin the awr\u0101d<\/em> assigned to you. The ‘standard’ wird<\/em> assigned to everyone is to read 1-3 juz<\/em> per day if they know how to read Quran. If they don\u2019t know to read they can read the meaning in English. Then they should read one juz <\/em>of Dalail al-Khayrat<\/em> every day. If they don\u2019t know Arabic, then they can do 100 salawat<\/em> on Prophet (\ufdfa) in place of reading Dalail al-Khayrat<\/em>. If they don\u2019t know to read Quran they can recite 100 times Qul h\u016bw all\u0101hu \u0101\u0127ad<\/em> thus 3 juz<\/em> consists of 300 times Qul h\u016bw all\u0101hu \u0101\u0127ad<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/itikaf_instructions.pdf” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Download Instructions (PDF)” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adab of `Itik\u0101f Introduction Itik\u0101f in the time of the Prophet (\ufdfa) was done in the last 10 days of Ramadan. The most important aspect of `itik\u0101f\u00a0 is to separate yourself from your spouse. That is the primary characteristic in `itik\u0101f– that there are no intimate relations\u00a0 when you are in `itik\u0101f. Therefore they used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" Adab of \u00bfitik\u0101f The day before the last 10 days of Rama\u013c\u0101n at \u00bfAsr time make niyyat for \u00bfitik\u0101f on behalf of themselves, their ancestors, and their children asking Support from Prophet \u00ff, Grand Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani (\u0642), Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al Haqqani (\u0642), from Shaykh Hisham (\u0642), and from Awliya. Gift the reward to Prophet , to Ahl al-Bayt, to Awliya, Grand Shaykh, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and Shaykh Hisham, and then to anyone you wish. Introduction \u00bfitik\u0101f in the time of the Prophet (s) was the last 10 days, the most important was to separate yourself from your husband or wife. that is the main thing from \u00bfitik\u0101f is that you dont have a relationship when you are in \u00bfitik\u0101f. and that is why they used to go to the mosque as there is no other place to do that in presence of Prophet (s). people today how like to do \u00bfitik\u0101f, usually, can do in their home even, you can be in a separate room from your husband. that is \u00bfitik\u0101f. you decide to enter into a heavy training that you want to be always in the divine presence, not to be in the dunya. this is \u00bfitik\u0101f is a step before khalwah. so it trains us to be able to be in khalwah for 40 days so you want to be in the divine presence that is your goal: It is Allah, swt and his Prophet (s). so your shaykh will assign for you some awr\u0101d to do in order that you can achieve some kind of polishing yourself to enable you in the future, if you keep \u00bfitik\u0101f it enables you to reach a real understanding of khalwah. \u00bfitik\u0101f is very important because it will put you on that journey. \u00bfakafa in Arabic means \u00bfakafa ala shay is to turn towards that thing and kept it without changing , constantly doing it. When you say \u00bfaakiftu \u0101kul ath-thamr, It means I turned to the decision of always eating dates. \u00bfAkafa is to do something constantly, non-stop. So that ten days \u00bfitik\u0101f is to decide to turn towards my Lord in these ten days and be away from any disturbance or any connection with other than this Divine Presence. So the sahaba used to stay in the mosque, but if there is something important that they had to go to their houses and do something they would do that. In other words, it is not full-time seclusion. If they need to go take shower, they go take the shower and come back. Most important is not to have contact with wife or wife with husband, the relationship with the spouse. They can eat anything in \u00bfitik\u0101f, not restricted. In khalwah you have to eat only one thing \u2013 lentils. The person in \u00bfitik\u0101f will have to be busy in these last 10 days in excessive worship day and night. They have to be very knowing how to protect themselves from all negative whispering of Shaytaan in the ears. First as much as possible, they don\u2019t need to talk to anyone. Although they can talk about anything Islamic, it is ok, and they can listen to talks on Islam, ask questions, listen to hadith. But it must be dedicated to non-worldly, non-dunya, no need to talk about going to Wal-mart and talking about what toy I will buy my son. All the focus is Allah and His Prophet (s). So you being the day before by Maghrib, the 24 hours begins at Maghrib for awliy\u0101ullah. So if you decide to go you go before Maghrib by two hours and make ablution on the niyyah of \u00bfitik\u0101f, Then you go in and sit there and begin the awr\u0101d assigned to you the normal awr\u0101d assigned to everyone is to read one juz to 3 a day if they know how to read Quran. If they don\u2019t know to read they can read the meaning in English. Then Dalail al-khayrat every day one juz. If they don\u2019t know Arabic, then they can do 100 salawat on Prophet (s) in place of Dalail al-khayrat. and if they don\u2019t know to read Quran they can do 100 times Qul h\u016bw all\u0101hu \u0101\u0127ad and 3 juz will be 300 times Qul h\u016bw all\u0101hu \u0101\u0127ad. Instructions Beginning with first day take ablution in the Z\u0101w\u012byah, and perform the Adab, and pray \u0160al\u0101tu \u2019l-Maghrib in Jama\u00bfah, continue with Awr\u0101d up to \u0160al\u0101tu\u2019 l-\u00bfIsh\u0101 in Jama\u00bfah.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4568\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rules of `Itikaf<\/em><\/h3>\n
Niyyah<\/em><\/h3>\n
Practices<\/h3>\n