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The Solitude He Never Skipped: What I'tikaf Asks of the Heart

Before the first revelation ever reached him, the Messenger of Allah had already made a habit of disappearing to a cave outside Makkah. What that solitude became, after Prophethood, is a rite called iʿtikāf — and the record shows he kept it every single year, then doubled it the year he died.