Translations:Yirmi Altıncı Mektup/266/en
On the Day of ‘Arafa, the eve of the Festival of Sacrifices, I used to recite Sura al-Ikhlas hundreds of times.(*[1])I would observe that some of the non-physical senses in me would receive the sustenance several times, then would cease to do so and stop. Others like the faculty of reflective thought would turn towards the meaning for a time, receive their share, then they too would stop. And some like the heart would receive their share in respect of certain concepts that yielded a spiritual pleasure, then they too would fall silent. And so on.
- ↑ *For Hadiths about the merits of reciting Sura al-Ikhlas (Sura 112) specific numbers of times, see, Tirmidhi, Fada’il al-Qur’an, 11; Musnad, iii, 437; Darimi, Fada’il al-Qur’an, 24; al-Suyuti, al-Fath al- Kabir, iii, 227; Bayhaqi, Shu’ab al-Iman, ii, 506-8.