“Itikaf” spiritual retreats

“Itikaf” is a collective spiritual retreat that enables a person to reach a state of mental peace and sanctifies one’s inner self. The spiritual retreat connects hearts in such a way that one does not feel the need of reaching out to someone else. That is what “Itikaf” does for a Muslim in particular and human being in general. Itikaf (seclusion in a mosque) is prayer maintained with deep hunger during Ramadan, the month of fasting.

Hunger has a positive psychological impact on people. Itikaf provides an opportunity for the believer to get closer to Allah by temporarily freeing oneself and one’s mind from the activities and worries of this world. This provides an excellent opportunity to train oneself to disassociate temporarily from the worries of the world and to instead focus only on Allah. Various studies have examined how fasting in Ramadan affects people’s vital functions.

Ummet Waqf "Itikaf" Campaign we urge supporters to help us arrange such collective spiritual retreats on an annual basis, where thousands of AlQuds people from different troubled and peace-seeking backgrounds can take their harmony and revert back to their families with a feeling of spiritually recharged.