In Sufism, a murīd (Arabic مُرِيد 'one who seeks') is a novice committed to spiritual enlightenment by sulūk (traversing a path) under a spiritual guide, who may take the title murshid, pir or shaykh.
A sālik or Sufi follower only becomes a murīd when he makes a pledge (bayʿah) to a murshid.
Throughout the instruction period, the murīd typically experiences waridates like visions and dreams during personal spiritual awrads and exercises.
A common practice among the early Sufi orders was to grant a khirqa or a robe to the murīd upon the initiation or after he had progressed through a series of increasingly difficult and significant tasks on the path of mystical development until attaining wāṣil stage.
[2] A fundamental practice involves teaching the mûrîd (Arabic: موريد "the disciple") an array of seven "names".