Dhikr

[STONECOLD]

Re: Dhikr

@Afshi

@psyah, would you mind explaning the following terms:

Tariqa
Shaykh
Murid
Wird
Sidi/Sitti
Shadhili
Shaykh Muhammad al Ya’qoubi

Maybe in your own words, I don’t want to use the Google/Wikipedia definitions.

@Kinzz - if you are in the NY or Florida area, sometimes Shaykh Faisal does programs there as well. If you are interested, I will give you more detail abuot these programs and you can ask him directly your questions.

@STONECOLD - mashallah that is great. I pray this path gets easier for you, Inshallah. The downs could be due to the fact that Shaytaan sees the right path you are on and wants to pull you back. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine. She started her wirds, and then all of a sudden bad things started to happen to her. She mentioned this to the Shaykh who told her a similar response and to be patient and steadfast in her wird. Pretty soon, all the bad things started goign away and Alhumdulillah things were great. A couple of years later, she was slacking on her wird, and again things were going downhill. I mentioned to her to start the wird again, and Alhumdulillah, things never looked better. Actually, I can actually vouch for this myself and I went through similar thing as well.

Jazak Allah Khair

I agree, the shaitaan whispers and tries to keep you away from the dhikr and tasbih of the Almighty.

And my wird isnt even that long. It only takes 20mins.

You are right about dreams. I, myself rarely have dreams. However, before I took my tariqah I had a dream about my Shaykh.

If your missing your wird then try and have company with your fellow fuqara. This always help in bringing your spirits up!