Dhikr

Entertainment ranged from the ISNA-sanctioned show MC'ed by video blogger Baba Ali and featuring artists such as Kareem Salama and Dawud Wharnsby, to off-site (and non-endorsed) events such as the IMAN Community Café in southside Chicago with its "turntable dhikr" (remembrance of God) and hip-hop Muslim poetry, and the Muslim punk "Taqwapalooza" concert, held in a sweaty downtown residence complete with mosh pit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Whirling Dervishes are a Muslim Sufi order who are known for their famous practice of performing their dhikr remembrance of Allah in the form of a whirling "dance" and musical ceremony called the sema. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

He says that one night a person started doing dhikr and calling “Ya Allah” for a long time. ❋ [email protected] (2007)

They achieve this through dhikr, the remembrance of God, and asceticism, through being ❋ By BINA SHAH (2011)

The most important of these practices is dhikr, or remembrance, which usually involves the repetition, silently or aloud, of God's 99 names. ❋ Eric Weiner (2011)

After completing the ritual prayers, we recite dhikr. ❋ Kari Ansari (2011)

Traditionally, dhikr, akin to saying a rosary, is expressing praise and gratitude to God. ❋ Kari Ansari (2011)

The Chechen leader keeps a close watch and makes all decisions: reconstruction, the latest models of luxury cars, the dhikr a Sufi prayer ritual and what women wear. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In our dhikr we will praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى and call him the great one but our words fall on a society which has no place for our deen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I always do dhikr after fajr salat for an hour and then culminate it with a nifl salat, salat-e-ishraque. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The song is a sort of devotional track that deals with the prime aspect of Sufism, 'zhikr' which is remembering God at all times, '' or dhikr (also transliterated as zhikr), which includes chanting the names of God and meditating that emphasizes the seeker's path toward ecstatic unity with God. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By Rūmī's day the Sufi custom of dhikr -- remembering God -- had evolved from chanting the ninety-nine beautiful names of God to dancing to the rhythm of the chanting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Naqshbandi-Haqqani media library gives this clip the title of African Salawat / Rap / Hadrah I've been to the Burton masjid before for other activities (Eid prayer, dhikr) but apparently I missed hip-hop night. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This meditative practice somewhat resembles the Sufi practice of reciting dhikr. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just think, every time someone mentions them, and you say "la howla wa la quwatta illah billah" you get a reward for your dhikr and a reward for not backbiting. just sayin ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

The proper Sufi seeks to attain this state through rigorous disciplines, of which dhikr, the remembrance of God, by reciting or meditating on his name, is the most common. ❋ Unknown (2009)