Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered – a healing of the soul. Even our language pointsto this relation. The words ‘holy’, ‘wholesome’ and ‘healing’ all have the same root. (In German, thisis even more striking: heilig, heil and heilen.) Muslims believe that all humans are born in a state ofpurity, our fitra, and it is only in the course of our lives that we tarnish our soul through bad habitsand wrong behaviour. Through spiritual practices such as prayer, recitation of Quran and dhikr wecan cleanse these acquired ‘black spots’ in our soul and return towards our original primordialnature.1 More so, dhikr is said to enliven the heart.
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