I`tikaf (Spiritual Retreat)
I`tikaf (Spiritual Retreat) meaning & legitimacy: I`tikaf means to stick to something, whether good or bad, and to block out everything else. Allah says in the Qur’an: “What then are images that you pay devotion [akifun] to them?” (Al Anbia’: 52)—that is, what they devoted themselves to in worship. What is meant here is the