Ramadan 2019 – Day 5 : What is ‘Itikaf’? Significance of Itikaf during Ramadan The word itikaf is used in the Holy Quran in different forms such as “aakifun” or “al aakifeen”. Literally, it means confinement to a specific thing or place, or retreat and seclusion, while technically it means to confine oneself for some time to a mosque in order to stay there to worship or at least to withdraw oneself from worldly business. […]