support, responsibility, maintenance

being of equal status

providing (for), care, looking after

secluding oneself in a mosque or temple for religious service, continually at prayer in the temple, A person in the state of Itikaf (usually during ramadan)

to keep constantly or perseveringly, continuing in prayer (in the temple or mosque)

stay secluded in a mosque or in an isolated place for prayers (esp. during Ramadan)

to sit secluded in a temple or mosque, abstaining from worldly affairs, and engaging in devotional exercises, to retire from the world

to end the retirement (to masque)

stopping, setting, punctuation