The Healing Power of Prayer Beads

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<i>Originally posted by hefny </i><b>The Healing Power of Prayer Beads</b>

Towards this goal many Muslims carry a sibhah, or prayer beads. Traditionally, prayer beads are used to keep track of how many times one has recited Subhan Allah, Alhamdulliah and Allahu Akbar. The most popular way is to use them after the obligatory prayer to recite the dhikr [remembrance of] Allah:  

However, methods of assistance have always been employed in religious devotion even before the sibhah. Tradition states that before the sibhah, stones were sometimes used to recite. Other religions used knotted cords or woven shawls to keep track of recitations.  

Modern technology, however, has added a new dimension to prayer beads when electronic sibhah were invented. Many people even prefer not to use a sibhah at all.  

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No thing wrong to use prayer beads as mentioned above for:

1-methods of assistance

2-prayer beads are used to keep track of how many times one has recited

I knew do it on your figures is the best but most of us will start dhikr on fingers after few count he usually stop or not remembering how many he did

The only thing is wrong if we believe that sibhah has any good thing to do for the reward from Allah

It is only a tool and you can use any thing for count but our goal should be to recite the dhikr [remembrance of] Allah most of our time because it is your link with Allah