An Overview of the Introduction to the Zikrī Community and their Beliefs and Worships

Abstract

In the matter of religion and people have always been prone to extremes all of them believe themselves to be right and other to be wrong ,and the same is happening with the dhikrs they consider themselves to be right and orthodox while people make various accusations against them and raise questions about their basic beliefs and worship ,Although the zikrī sect came into existence five hundred year ago till Zikrī is an unpopular and unorganized  community Due to lack of preaching they are few in number till now . its inventor is a follower of sayyad Muhammad jaunpurī who passed from different areas and finally settled in Makrān today it is limited to a specific region and race, the Zikris  belong to be the makrān division and are of Baloch descent Mount Murad has a central position while chogān is considered an important act of worship ,Mulla Atakī is considered a great reformer and spiritual leader ,although they believe in unity ,their methods of worship are different. Forming an opinion about the beliefs of an individual or a group is illegitimate without any evidence but grouf acts and evidence   cannot be ignored, apart from the beliefs there is a clear difference in their worship which is limited to zikr only.