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Is there any significance to lightly nodding the head during zikr?

Published as Nodding the head while making zikr

· 25 Rabiʻ I 1439 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

Is there any significance to lightly nodding the head during zikr? Is this a sunnah practice?

Answer

There is no virtue in this. This is done merely as a treatment.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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