Sufi practice
Breath, dhikr and the Qadiri line, read against the primary texts.
2 papers · last updated 18 October 2026
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Pas Anfas: guarding the breath
A breath-bound dhikr of the Indo-Persian Sufi orders
What pas-i anfas is, where it appears across the orders, how it is practised, what practitioners report, and which popular claims the sources do not support.
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The Qadiri silsila and Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani
Where breath practice enters the line, and where it does not
Jilani's surviving works teach vigilance of the breaths, not a breath technique. The technique enters the Qadiri line later, and the sources say so.
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