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Could you please suggest a programme for a forty-day spiritual retreat that allows me to remain with my family and engaged in society, rather than withdrawing into seclusion?
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ
A programme for a forty-day spiritual retreat while remaining with one’s family and engaged in society includes a daily review of one’s deeds, reciting prayers for forgiveness, completing the Qur’an and the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya, reflecting on the Fifteen Whispered Prayers, performing the night prayer, giving charity each day and night, and caring for those in need.
Daily and nightly self-examination, reviewing one’s past and present deeds
Reciting two passages each day from the 70-part prayer for forgiveness of Mawlā Amīr al-Muʾminīn (peace be upon him)
Resolving to complete a reading of the Qur’an during the forty-day spiritual retreat
Completing the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya with attentive self-discipline
Reciting the Fifteen Whispered Prayers with reflection and contemplation, and so on
A daily and nightly practice of reflection
The night prayer and the recommended prayers alongside the obligatory ones
One special righteous deed each day
Reviewing narrations on divine unity and reflecting deeply on them
Guiding people and encouraging them toward spiritual matters
Giving charity daily and nightly
Seeking out those in need who preserve their dignity, in order to relieve their hardship
And so on…