Practices
The Chishtis follow five basic devotional practices (dhikr).
- Reciting the names of Allāh loudly, sitting in the prescribed posture at prescribed times (jhikr-i djahr)
- Reciting the names of Allāh silently (jhikr-i khafī)
- Regulating the breath (pās-i anfās)
- Absorption in mystic contemplation (murā-ḳāba)
- Forty days of spiritual confinement in a lonely corner or cell for prayer and contemplation (čilla)
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