Before starting make sure you did your religious washing, then if possible sit in the direction of Kaaba and say: “Oh my Lord I am intending to make Dhikr (Remembrance of God).

 

3times           The Shahada (Declaration of Faith): “

                               Ash-hadu anlaa ilaha illallah wa ash hadu  

                              anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuuluh.”

70 times         Estagfirullah

1 time             Suratul Fatiha

1 time             Suratul Ihlas

1 time             Suratul Felak

1 time             Suratul Nas

10 times         Kelime-I Tevhid:

                               “ Lailahe illallah, after the tenth time say

                               “Muhammedun Resulullah”

10 times         Salavati-Sherif:

                               “ Allahume salli ala Muhammedin wa ala

                               ali Muhammedin wa sellim”

 

 

To make it a gift: 

“Oh my Lord please give the blessings of this good deed as a gift to the Holy Soul of the Prophet Muhammed (s.a.v), to all the Enbiya’s and Awliya’s, especially Shaykh Naqshibandi and our Shaykh Abdullah Dagistani. AMIN.(El-Fatiha)

 

 

3 times          Alla-hu Alla-hu Alla-hu Hak

1500 times    Allah

100 times      Salavati-Sherif: “ Allahume salli ala Muhammedin wa ala ali Muhammedin wa sellim”

1 time             A chapter of the Holy Qur’an

                                         or

                        100 times Suratul Ihlas

1 time             A chapter from Dala’ il ul-Khairat (The Guideposts to Goodness) (download this, and more practices  from http://www.naqshbandi.org/frmpract.htm)

 

Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays:

 

3000 times   Allah

300 times     Salavati-Sherif

 

 

Voluntarily recited, after the daily practice

 

100 times      Lailahe illallah

100 times      Estagfirullah el Azim ve Etubu Ileyh

100 times      Ya Latif

100 times      Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

100 times      Hasbinallahu wa Nimal Wakil