Working taweez

Working taweez

Monday, November 3, 2025

Islamic talisman - taweez for miracles

     

      بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Who don`t want to see miracles in his life? Extraordinary things to happen. Events that can reshape your life and other people. There are different ways to provoke miracles in life, epsecially with the help of Islam. And today we will present you one taweez for such miracles.

1. The meaning of “miracle” in Islamic and folk cosmology

In Islamic theology, miracles (karamat) are seen as divine signs — manifestations of Allah’s will through His chosen servants. Yet in folk spirituality across the Muslim world, the term also includes sudden turns of fate: healing, prosperity, reconciliation, or unexplainable good fortune.

In regions such as Punjab, Sindh, Anatolia, and North Africa, believers have long sought proximity to the unseen (ghayb) through devotional acts and symbolic artifacts. Among these, the taweez stands as a bridge between faith and material life, between hope and divine decree.

 

2. The “Taweez for Miracles” — materials and ritual logic

Ethnographic accounts from South Asia describe a particular talisman known as the Taweez al-Aja’ib (تَعويذ العجائب) — “Amulet of Wonders.”
Its purpose is not to command miracles but to open one’s life to divine grace and unexpected blessings.

Materials traditionally used:

  • Deer skin parchment (جلد الغزال):
    This material holds symbolic purity. In Arabic and Persian manuscripts, the deer represents gentleness and divine beauty (jamal). Older mystical treatises such as Shams al-Ma‘arif al-Kubra and Mujarrabat al-Dairabi mention deer parchment as a medium that preserves spiritual energy better than ordinary paper.
  • Roohani ink:
    A blend of saffron, rosewater, and occasionally musk or rainwater. The act of preparing the ink is itself a ritual — the scribe recites short verses from Surah Yaseen while stirring it.
  • Timing:
    The writing must occur on Monday, during the hour of the Moon (sa‘at al-qamar), in the first days of the lunar month.
    In esoteric Islam, lunar hours correspond to receptivity, intuition, and renewal.

Ritual procedure:

  1. The scribe performs ablution (wudu).
  2. A small amount of frankincense or gum Arabic is burned to purify the air.
  3. The talismanic square is drawn — each number chosen according to abjad values of divine attributes.
  4. The parchment is gently fumigated with a blend of olibanum, benzoin resin, and gum Arabic for 10–15 minutes.
  5. For 21 consecutive days, Surah al-Fatiha is recited 100 times daily while holding the parchment.  It is short surah, so it won`t be a problem to recite it - it will take not more then 1 hour a day. It is not necessery to evaporate the resins every time when reciting - it will be good, of course. But only the first time is enough. 

Practitioners view this as a form of dhikr — a focused remembrance that channels spiritual concentration rather than mechanical magic.


Soon different unusual things will start to happen around you and you have to be calm - this is something normal with such item in you. The miracles can be from different kind - huge amount of wealth, success in fileds that you don`t expect, surprises of every kind on every corner. 


3. Symbolism of the numerical table

The square shown in the image is a classical wafq — a magic square used in Islamic esotericism.
Each number corresponds to a letter; each letter to a divine name. The total sum of each row and column remains equal, symbolizing divine order and balance.

In traditional cosmology, this harmony mirrors the verse:

“Indeed, We created all things in due proportion.” (Qur’an 54:49)

Researchers such as Dr. Noor Ahmad (Islamic Studies, Islamabad, 2017) and Anne-Marie Schimmel note that such squares were widespread in both scholarly and folk contexts: from Mughal court astrologers to village healers in Sindh and Anatolia.


4. Regional transmission and cultural variations

Ottoman Anatolia

Manuscripts from the 15th–18th centuries, preserved in the Süleymaniye Library (Istanbul), show muska talismans written on gazelle parchment. They were used by soldiers for courage, merchants for luck, and mothers for childbirth protection.

Persian and Indo-Muslim traditions

In Persia and later Mughal India, taweez writing merged with Persian calligraphic art.
Ethnographic notes from Bahauddin Zakariya Shrine (Multan) mention ‘amil (spiritual practitioners) preparing miracle taweez on Mondays at dawn, correlating with lunar ascension.

North Africa and Sudan

Researchers from the University of Khartoum (2019 field study) documented similar practices among Tijani and Qadiri Sufis — talismans burned with incense and buried under thresholds to invite divine favor.

Across all these geographies, the common element is not superstition but symbolic literacy — a belief that writing itself carries metaphysical vibration.

 

5. The deer skin as sacred medium

In Islamic esotherism , the deer is linked to purity and grace.
According to Persian miniatures and Arabic folklore, the deer is “beloved of the saints” because it walks lightly on the earth and avoids harm.
Hence, its skin was considered suitable for sacred writing — Qur’anic calligraphy, amulets, and ijazah scrolls.

A 14th-century North African manual, al-Qawanin fi al-Awfaq, states:

“The parchment of the gazelle holds the breath of life longer than the hide of the ox, for its nature is lunar.”

This poetic phrasing reflects the symbolic thinking behind choosing materials in Islamic occultism.

 

6. The fragrance ritual — frankincense and benzoin

Incense occupies a special place in Islamic devotional practice.
In both Arab and South Asian shrines, the burning of resins marks transition — from the visible to the unseen.

Modern ethnobotanical studies (e.g. Ethnobotany Research & Applications, 2021) note that frankincense, benzoin, and gum Arabic release aromatic compounds that calm the nervous system, enhancing focus during recitation.

To the believer, this physical effect mirrors the spiritual one — the fragrance rising to heaven as prayer.


7. The 21-day cycle and Surah al-Fatiha

The recitation of Surah al-Fatiha (the Opening Chapter) for 21 days is a symbolic act of spiritual alignment.
The number 21 equals three cycles of seven — in Islamic numerology, seven represents completeness (the seven heavens, the seven circumambulations around the Kaaba).
Repeated over 21 days, it becomes a structured discipline of remembrance (muraqabah).

In this way, the taweez practice is both ritual and meditation — a form of self-purification through repetition and focus.


8. The ethical boundaries

Islamic jurists differ on the permissibility of amulets.

  • Some strict schools condemn them as innovations (bid‘ah).
  • Others, like Imam al-Suyuti and Ibn al-Qayyim, allow amulets containing only Qur’anic text and divine names, provided the intention (niyyah) is pure.

Most Sufi traditions accept taweez as lawful when treated as a prayer aid, not as an independent power.
Ethnographic interviews in Punjab (Ghalib, Ethnography of Sufi Healing, Lahore, 2014) show that practitioners often emphasize humility — they write “by permission of Allah,” never “by power of this square.”


9. The folk experience of miracles

Miracles in this context are not theatrical events but shifts in perception — the believer begins to see divine order in everyday life.
Stories recorded in Sindhi and Punjabi oral tradition often describe “unexpected ease” — debts repaid, illnesses fading, estranged families reconciled.

 


10. Reflections

To view this taweez for miracles ethnographically is to see a language of longing.
Each component — the deer skin, the ink, the incense, the recitation — encodes a dialogue between the visible and the invisible.

It tells us more about human faith than about supernatural power.
The believer does not “command miracles”; he invites them by aligning his heart with divine measure.

As a contemporary Urdu poet wrote:

“Jab khuda se likhi jaaye dua,
to har harf se noor nikalta hai.”
(When a prayer is written with sincerity, light flows from every letter.)