The word · The heart
الوِرْد
Wird
A personal daily portion of remembrance or recitation that a person keeps to.
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The meaning
What Wird means in Islam
The word means a turn at a watering place. In practice a wird is a small fixed amount, a page of Qur'an, a number of salawat, a set of adhkar, repeated every day at the same point. The principle behind it is the prophetic teaching that the deeds most loved by Allah are the constant ones, even if small. Sufi orders assign a specific wird through a shaykh; outside that setting a person simply chooses their own and keeps it.
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Words that sit beside it
- DhikrRemembrance of Allah, in set phrases and in the wider habit of not forgetting Him.الذِّكْر
- AdhkarThe set remembrances of the day: morning, evening, sleeping, waking, eating, travel and distress.الأَذْكَار
- IstiqamahStaying straight: keeping to the path steadily, over years, without dramatic swings.الاسْتِقَامَة
- TariqahA Sufi order: a lineage with a shaykh, a set litany, and a method for training students.الطَّرِيقَة
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- GhibahMentioning something about a person, behind their back, that they would dislike hearing.الغِيبَة
- KadhibLying: saying what you know is not so, in speech, in a hint, or in a misleading silence.الكَذِب
- NamimahCarrying words between people in a way that sets them against each other.النَّمِيمَة
- SabrHolding yourself steady under what is hard, without complaint to creation and without giving up.الصَّبْر
- TabarrukSeeking blessing through a person, place or object, which scholars permit narrowly and dispute widely.التَّبَرُّك