SunnahExplorer

Ways of The Prophet (S.A.W)

by Sheikh Muhammad Abdul Hai Arifi

MUSTAHABBAT -E- ITIKAF

  1. Doing good and talking good,
  2. Reciting the QURAAN
  3. Reciting durud (invoking blessings on the Prophet) repeatedly.
  4. Studying and teaching religious subjects.
  5. Delivering sermons and tendering advice (admonition).
  6. Retiring in a mosque (Itikaf) where regular daily congregational Salaah are performed. [Bahishti Zewar]

Hadrat Aishah (Radi Allaahu Ta’ala Anha) is reported to have said that the sunnah for one who is observing a period of private devotion in a mosque (Itikaf) is not to visit an invalid, or attend a funeral, or touch or embrace one’s wife, or go out for anything but necessary purposes. There is no period of private devotion in a mosque (Itikaf) without fasting, and it must be carried out in a mosque where congregational Salaah are held. [Abu Dawud, Mishkat]