Ihsan Center – Islam From The Heart

Salat al-‘Ashiqin

This practice was recommended to me by Pir Zia during the month of Ramadhan. It is done

silently after ‘Isha.

Make your intention to do 4 rakat.

2 sets of 2.

1st rakat recite sura al Fatiha 1 time and then Ya Allah 100 times (all in the standing position

then finish rakat)

2nd rakat recite sura al Fatiha 1 time and then Ya Rahman 100 times

short break

3rd rakat recite sura al Fatiha 1 time and then Ya Raheem 100 times

4th rakat recite sura al Fatiha 1 time and then Ya Wadud 100 times

Salaams.

In all 4 rakats the recitation is done standing and when finished proceed with the positions

of salat as you would normally do them. Just take a short rest in between the second and

third rakats.

When Inayat Khan came to the West — 120 years ago – from his perspective we might call it “the mysterious West” — in 1910, he brought with him the traditions of the Sufi schools of India and Central Asia. He came with the intention of bringing harmony, and even as the methods he was to teach were all but unknown to a Eurocentric, post-Victorian society, so was the ground in which his seeds were to be sown a world unknown to him.