{"id":9583,"date":"2017-06-08T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T12:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2017-05-08T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:54:07","slug":"the-essence-of-itikaaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=9583","title":{"rendered":"The Essence of I\u2019tikaaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=9585\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9585\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Reserved\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9585\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Reserved.jpg\" style=\"width: 191px; height: 128px; margin: 5px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Reserved.jpg 191w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Reserved-110x75.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of I&rsquo;tikaaf is to create mental seclusion with the Beloved (i.e. Allah Ta&lsquo;ala). This is the beginning of spiritual progress. The hadeeth says that before nubuwwat, seclusion was made beloved to Rasulullah (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam). The mind has to be completely free from all other worries, concerns, desires and aspirations. Like a reserved parking, the mind doesn&rsquo;t only need to be paak (pure), but also needs to be reserved solely for Allah Ta&lsquo;ala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned: The purpose of I&rsquo;tikaaf is to create mental seclusion with the Beloved (i.e. Allah Ta&lsquo;ala). This is the beginning of spiritual progress. The hadeeth says that before nubuwwat, seclusion was made beloved to Rasulullah (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam). The mind has to be completely free from all other worries, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[410,17],"class_list":["post-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-mufti-ebrahim-salejee","category-malfoozaat","tag-malfoozaat","tag-mufti-ebrahim-salejee-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9586,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}