Zikr-Imams
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ZIKR –IMAMS 1
“He who loves something mentions it much.” (Abu Nu`aym in the Hilya)
In the Fatawa fiqhiyya of al-Haytami (p. 48): He was asked about Nawawi’s saying at the end of the chapter entitled “Dhikr Gatherings” in his Commentary on Sahih Muslim: “Dhikr of the tongue with presence of the heart is preferable to dhikr of the heart
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According to the Naqshbandi masters, dhikr in the heart is more useful for the murid or student for it is more efficient in shaking the heart from indifference and awakening it.
Shaykh Amin al-Kurdi said in his book Tanwir al-qulub (Enlightenment of Hearts) p. 522:Know that there are two kinds of dhikr: “by heart” (qalbi) and “by tongue” (lisani). Each has its legal proofs in the Qur’an and the Sunna.
the heart is the place where the Forgiver casts his gaze, and the seat of belief, and the receptacle of secrets, and the source of lights. If it is sound, the whole body is sound, and if it is unsound, the whole body is unsound,
Silent dhikr is the dhikr of the servant who secludes himself away from people.
“Seven people will be shaded by Allah…” The seventh is: “A person who remembers Allah in seclusion (dhakara Allaha khaaliyan) and his eyes get flooded with tears.”
In Tirmidhi: `A’isha relates: “In the beginnings of Allah’s Messenger’s Prophethood, Most beloved to him was seclusion (al-khalwa) and there was nothing he loved more than to be alone in seclusion.”
al-Qushayri said in his Risala: “The method of the one who enters seclusion is that he must have the belief that he is keeping people from his evil, not the reverse, for the former presupposes belittlement of himself, which is the attribute of the humble, while the latter indicates that he considers himself better than others, which is the attribute of the arrogant.”
Allah said in His Book: “And mention the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with a complete devotion” (73/8) Qadi Thana’ullah Panipati said in his Tafsir Mazhari: “Know that this verse points to the repetition of the name of the Essence (ism al-dhat),” that is: “Allah.”
“To Allah belong the most beautiful names, so call Him by them” (7/180).
“Hu” and “Hayy” are a pronoun and name of Allah Almighty in the Qur’an according to ayat al-Kursi:Allahu la ilaha illa HU AL-HAYY al-Qayyum (2/255) “Haqq” is one of the names of Allah
“There are ninety-nine names which belong to Allah, one hundred less one, whoever memorizes (or recites) them enters Paradise…”(bukhari)
O Allah, I invoke You with all of Your beautiful Names. Narrated by Ibn Maja, book of Du`a;
Imam Ghazali wrote: “The root of thought is the eye… He whose niyyat (intention) is fine and who aims high cannot be diverted by what occurs in front of him, but he who is weak fall prey to it. The medicine is to cut off the roots of these distractions and to shut up the eyes, to pray in a dark room, not to keep anything in front which may attract attention and not to pray in a decorated place. For this reason, the saints used to worship in dark, narrow and unspacious rooms.” Ihya’ `Ulum al-Din, Book of Salat.
When I want to talk to Allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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