Question:
Assalamu’alaikum
I was going through the usual 200 beads count of the Naqshbandi tasbeeh but I don’t understand the way the beads are strung. It’s 33,33,33,30,60,3,7 which makes 199 beads all together. Could you elaborate on the specific counts and what awrads are recited in the before-mentioned counts. Thank you..
Answer:
`Alaykum as-Salam,
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham said that Grandshaykh Sultan al-Awliya’ Mawlana al-Shaykh Abd Allah had a 200-bead tasbih with the following dividers: 33, 33, 33, 30, 70.
The alif of the tasbih counts as one. The three 33s are for tasbih after Salat while the 70 is for astaghfirullah in the daily wazifa. That’s it.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
