‘Day of Departure’ shows dhkir to Allah on fingertips

Performing dhikr to God with the fingers of the hand has been shown in a scene captured from iFilm series ‘Day of Departure’.

Dhikr is an Islamic term that refers to any action that reminds us of Allah. There is an important form of dhikr which involves repeating phrases such as ‘Subhanallah’, ‘Alhamdulillah’ and ‘Allahu akbar’ pre-determined numbers of times, using your hand or a string of prayer beads (Tasbih).

Muslims sometimes count the number of Tasbih on the fingers of their right hand. Four fingers are used to count a dhikr which is the index finger, middle finger, ring finger and pinky finger.

Each finger at the palm has three cross out veins. You need to combine them by using your thumb against them.

You can see such practice in ‘Day of Departure’ where Karim, portrayed by Danial Hakimi, is saying dhikr using his fingertips.

Directed by Javad Afshar, ‘Day of Departure’ hits the air every night at 22:00 GMT. Each part of the series is repeated three times the next day at 04:00, 10:00 and 16:00 (all GMT times).

The 23-episode series is about the life story of two identical twins, Rahim and Karim, who have been apart since birth.

Rahim has recently discovered that he has a twin brother named Karim after the latter was murdered. Determined to find the culprit, he decides to poss as Karim to help the police track down the killer.

But this role-playing proves to be more difficult than he had initially expected as the murder still haunts the lives of all the ones affected by it.

Faqiheh Soltani, Danial Hakimi, Maryam Boubani, Mohsen Qazi-Moradi and Hassan Shokouhi are among the cast members of the series.

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