Muslim Prayer Beads - Mother of Pearl Beads Islamic Rosary - Islamic Wall Art Store
Muslim Prayer Beads - Mother of Pearl Beads Islamic Rosary - Islamic Wall Art Store
Muslim Prayer Beads - Mother of Pearl Beads Islamic Rosary - Islamic Wall Art Store
Muslim Prayer Beads - Mother of Pearl Beads Islamic Rosary - Islamic Wall Art Store
Muslim Prayer Beads - Mother of Pearl Beads Islamic Rosary - Islamic Wall Art Store
Islamic Wall Art Store

Muslim Prayer Beads | Mother of Pearl Beads - Islamic Rosary

The corner where you sit for dhikr gets mother of pearl prayer beads, strung in 0.28 inch beads with threading built to last through years of daily use.

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SKU: IJ07300YFHDC

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  • In stock, ready to ship
  • A dhikr companion for the corner where you sit to pray
  • Mother of pearl, 0.28 inch beads, expertly strung
  • Threading built for lasting durability through daily use

Mother of pearl

Mother of pearl, 99 beads

Mother of pearl, 99 beads, on a single cord. Mother of pearl, cut from the shell itself.

Three decisions before it ships

  1. The material

    Ninety-nine beads graded to one diameter, on a single cord, with the imame at the fold.

  2. Size

    7 mm beads — the count is 99 either way.

  3. In the hand

    Counted with the thumb rather than the eye, which is why the bead diameter matters more here than on anything else in this catalog.

The strand

How long it is, and how it sits

7 mm beads, so the loop runs about 74.3 cm and hangs about 37.1 cm folded. The strand is drawn below doubled, the way it hangs, with the arithmetic beside it.

99 beads on the loop, drawn at true scale — it hangs folded, so the drop is half the loop. 7 mm 74.3 cm loop
BeadBeadsLoopDrop, foldedIn the hand
7 mm9974.3 cm37.1 cmBetween the two usual sizes

Where the length comes from. None of these is sold by its length, so the length here is the sum rather than a measurement: 99 beads of the stated diameter, plus a standard imame at the fold. Lay it flat against a ruler and it is the number you get.

Materials

What it is made of

Material
Mother of pearl99 beads on one cord
Finishing
Strung on one cordImame at the fold
mother of pearl, close up

Craft

The stone, and the cord

Mother of pearl, cut from the shell itself

  • Cut from mother of pearl, so each bead carries its own sheen rather than a printed one
  • Graded to one diameter down the strand, which is what keeps the count even under the thumb
  • Strung on a single cord with the imame at the fold

On the sheen. Mother of pearl throws its color by the way light moves through the layers of the shell, not by a coating. Turn the strand and the color turns with it — which is also why no two beads read quite the same.

Using it

The first weeks

A new strand is stiff and a new cord is tight. Both settle with use — these three habits are what let them.

  1. Run it through once, slowly

    Take the whole loop through the fingers a few times before the first dhikr. A new strand sits tight on the cord and this is what opens the spacing out.

  2. Let it find the imame

    The imame at the fold is the marker you feel for. After a week of use the thumb finds it without counting up to it, which is the point of it being a different shape.

  3. Carry it loose, not knotted

    A pocket or a bag rather than wound tight around a wrist or a hook. A cord under constant tension is the one thing that shortens a strand’s life.

  • Packed for transit

Where it lives

Where it ends up

A pocket, every day

This is what a tasbih is for. Nothing here is fragile enough to need a shelf, and a strand that lives in a drawer never takes on the patina of one that does not.

Beside the prayer mat

Left where the mat is laid out, so it is in reach at the end of the prayer rather than fetched for it.

Given as it arrives

It comes boxed — an Eid gift, a first Ramadan, a return from Hajj or Umrah. Nothing to size and nothing to wrap.

Against the alternatives

This pieceCommonly sold alternatives
MaterialMother of pearl, strung on cordMass-produced, in a thinner material
What it isShell, not a pearlescent coating over a plastic coreA pearlescent coating over a plastic core

Care

Keeping it as it arrived

Keep it dry

A soft, dry cloth. Shell marks where water sits, and a wet cord stretches.

Nothing on the cord

No oils, no cleaners, and nothing abrasive — the sheen is the surface itself.

Store it loose

Coiled in a pocket or a box rather than hung on a hook, which puts the whole weight on one point of the cord.

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99 beads, 7 mm beads, on a single cord.

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