Chishti Order - Practices

Practices

The Chishtis follow five basic devotional practices (dhikr).

  1. Reciting the names of Allāh loudly, sitting in the prescribed posture at prescribed times (jhikr-i djahr)
  2. Reciting the names of Allāh silently (jhikr-i khafī)
  3. Regulating the breath (pās-i anfās)
  4. Absorption in mystic contemplation (murā-ḳāba)
  5. Forty days of spiritual confinement in a lonely corner or cell for prayer and contemplation (čilla)

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