If a woman happens to break her spiritual retreat for some valid excuse such as becoming ill, starting menstruation, giving birth or remaining outside the place of spiritual retreat for longer than... Read More

woman can sit for spiritual retreat and use tablets or injection to stop the valid excuse (her monthly cycle, for example) for the purpose.

Yes, women allowed to sit for spiritual retreat at a place distant from home. they can do so provided that regular arrangements to insure their veil, privacy, security, moral well-being, education,... Read More

The best option for a woman is confined to the place specified for prayer at home, which is known as ‘the mosque of the house’.

woman can not perform spiritual retreat without her husband’s permission

women are allowed to perform spiritual retreat

spiritual retreat is performed inside a mosque. If the number of secluded persons exceeds the space available within the mosque, buildings and classrooms adjacent to the mosque are also declared to... Read More

If a person starts his Ramadan while in Saudi Arabia because he was there when it started, it means he has found Ramadan two days earlier than in Pakistan

Al-Mu'takif can go outside the mosque building to attend the call of nature and to take an imperative major ritual bath, if the facility is not available in the premises.

al-mu'takif can not go out to inquire after a sick person’s health or to attend a funeral prayer

al-mu'takif move to another mosque for completing his spiritual retreat in a desperate situation

The dislikes (al-makruhat) in spiritual retreat include the following things

The renowned jurist Ibn Rushd holds that the difference of opinion about its being valid or invalid is based on the difference of opinion about the exact significance of spiritual retreat.

Al-Mu'takif must include the following deeds in his routine during spiritual retreat

Since fasting is a condition for necessary spiritual retreat, it cannot be for less than 24 hours.

If somebody made a vow that he would observe a three-day spiritual retreat for Allah’s sake if such and such matter were resolved.

Any spiritual retreat other than imperative or founded on the Prophetic practice, is called optional spiritual retreat.

The spiritual retreat during the last ten days of Ramadan is known as al-sunna al-mu'akkada 'ala al-kifaya.

There are three types of spiritual retreat.

conditions for a person to perform spiritual retreat.

According to the Shariah, it commences just before dusk on the 20th of Ramadan and ends just after the moon sighting of Shawwal, which could be on the 29th or 30th of Ramadan.

It is Sunna to perform spiritual retreat during the last ten days of Ramadan.

A number of hadiths have been reported that assert the importance of spiritual retreat.

Al-Itikaf is an Arabic word which literally means ‘to seclude or isolate oneself, to restrain oneself, to withdraw or retire, to devote or adhere to somebody, to be engaged with somebody in a way... Read More

It is Sunna to perform spiritual retreat during the last ten days of Ramadan.

Whoever performs spiritual retreat for ten days in Ramadan, its reward is like that of two pilgrimages and two minor pilgrimages.

Al-Itikaf is an Arabic word which literally means ‘to seclude or isolate oneself, to restrain oneself, to withdraw or retire, to devote or adhere to somebody, to be engaged with somebody in a way... Read More