This practice is more common among Muslims that are followers of the traditionalist Nahdlatul Ulama movement. The custom is known locally as majlis tahlil "assembly to perform prayers". In Indonesia and Malaysia, ritualized repetitive chanting of the tahlil is part of the tradition of kenduri, which is common during death rituals. Performing Tahlil to remember the dead is considered bidʻah by Salafi Muslims, and the practice itself is known specifically as niayah. Later on, it became a tradition practiced as a ritual of Sufism during events like the remembering of a dead Muslim. Traditionally, the utterance of the sentence is part of the shahada performed by somebody converting to Islam. ![]() ![]() ![]() The word Tahlil is the verbal noun of the form 2 verb Hallala ( هَلَّلَ) which literally means '"to praise" or "to acclaim".
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