Salka (Sufism)

The salka (Arabic: السلكة) is a collective recitation of all sixty hizbs of the Quran done by murids and saliks in Islamic Sufism.

[1][2] The salka is a tilawa during the meeting of the murids in a zawiya or a mosque to continuously recite the entire Quran.

[3] Saliks and tolbas recite the salka periodically to demonstrate their memorization in the zawiyas and madrasas.

[4][5] Muslims used also to perform the salka to psalmody the whole Quran either for death, childbirth, marriage contract, or moving to a new residence.

[6][7] While the Hizb Rateb consists of reciting a juz' of the Quran before or after one of the obligatory Islamic salawate (prayer), the salka consists of meeting in a place where believers continuously recite all of the sixty hizbs of the Quran from Al-Fatiha to An-Nas.