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Thewird (plural:awrād) is a regularlitany and a mysticalinvocation practiced bymurids,saliks andwasils inIslamicsufism.[1]
InSufism, themurid's transformation and salvation is done by the practice of special disciplines such as performance ofdhikr, remembrance ofAllah and his prophetMuhammad, and wird as special invocations, andQuranic recitations, or doingSalah.[2]
The wird is then viewed as a devotion or liturgy specific to a particular Sufi order orTariqa in which the substance is defined and based on dhikr and wird.[3]
Sufis designated specific times devoted to Allah and the specific dhikr recited on these occasions.[4]
An initiatemurid is given the secret wird of the Sufi order upon completion of training, transferring the spiritual power of thesilsila of transmission from the founder of the order andMuhammad, to the initiate.[5]
Taking wird is equivalent to full initiation into the Sufitariqa.[6]
Wird is like a spiritual medication taken by themurid every day under asheikh supervision and namedwazifa.[7]
The most effective medication for the disease ofghaflah (heedlessness) is thedhikr performed in the form of wird.[8]
The target insufism is to awake theqalb fromghaflah and bond it to almightyAllah, thus achieving eternal peace.[9]
The primary, and easiest, way of achieving this is to occupy theqalb with constantdhikr.[10]
Dhikr is the easiest and quickest way of bonding theqalb to almighty Allah.[11][12]
The greatest merit of the wird of dhikr is that Allah Himself remembers the servant who remembers Him exclusively and in the Divine Presence.[13][14]
Thewird is present in the practice ofmurids,saliks andwasils under different genres:
