07-28-2003, 03:07 PM
Praise be to Allah and prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed the illiterate prophet.
I found that the last post took us to the topic of dhikr (remembrance of Allah).
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I thought thousand times before elaborating on this issue. I never claim myself to be a scholar capable of tackling such a crucial and vast topic in Islam. Yet I thought to myself that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said convey after me even one Ayah. So I said to myself I will try my best with the close guidance and support of Allah to say what I know on this topic.
Remembrance of Allah which He classified in Quran as being “Recite what is sent of the Book by inspiration to thee, and establish regular Prayer: for Prayer restrains from shameful and unjust deeds; and remembrance of Allah is the greatest (thing in life) Without doubt and Allah knows the (deeds) that ye do” (Quran 29 : 45). At the beginning of the Ayah, Allah commands us to recite the Quran which is one form of dhikr the best actually (if u want Allah to talk to u read the Quran if u want to talk to Him pray), then to establish prayer in order to help one stay away from sins, which is another form of dhikr of course. He concluded then by confirming that after doing this entire still Allah’s remembrance to His servants remains greater of course than ours. (The Arabic Ayah conveys this meaning with all due respect to the translator).
If u simply refer this to the hadeeth narrated by Abi Horaira that the Messenger of Allah said: "Allah may He be Glorified Say: I am up to My servant's expectation of Me, and I Am with him when he remembers Me, if he remembers me within himself I remember him within Myself, if he remembers me in a gathering I would remember him in a gathering better than the one in which he remembered me, if the servant comes close to me as much as an open hand, I would come close to him an arm's length (from elbow to hand), if he comes close to me an arms length, I would come close to him what equals the full arm's length, if he comes to me walking I would run toward him. To Him is all the credit ” (reported by Ahmed).
With a simple comparison we can easily conclude that the Ayah refers to the remembrance of Allah for us to be of course the greatest.