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Can One Perform I`tikaf for a Portion of the Last 10 Days of Ramadan?

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Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Question: Assalam alaikum warahmatullah wa’barakatahu. My sister intends to sit for it’ikaaf. But due to some family matters she can’t sit in the last 3 days of Ramadan. She can only sit the first 3 days of the last 10 days of Ramadan. Is that permissible according to the hanafi fiqh?

Answer: Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

I pray this finds you in the best of health and spirits.

There are two types of i`tikaf:
(1) the emphasized communal sunna of the full last ten days of Ramadan and
(2) the recommended sunna of i`tikaf at any time–whether in or out of Ramadan.

The latter i`tikaf can be brief (even moments, with intention) or lengthy, and is also highly meritorious in Ramadan, particularly in the last ten days.

Thus, your sister can perform the i`tikaf for the time she is able, and there will be great virtue in it.

[ref: Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar; Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-Falah]

See: The Spiritual Retreat (I’tikaf)

wassalam,

Faraz Rabbani
Executive Director, SeekersHub Global [Toronto | Sydney | Online]

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