Remembrance (Zikr-e-Elahi)

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ALLAH Most High Himself shows the way to those who seek to remember him.”Remember Allah as He has Guided you..” (Sura Baqara 198). This means to remember that your Creator brought you to a certain level of consciousness and faith and that you can only remember Him in accordance with this ability. Our master the Prophet (SAW) says, 'The best declaration of remembrance is the one which I and all the prophets before me recite. It is the divine phrase “La ilaha illa Llah” — "there is no god but ALLAH”.
There are different levels of remembrance and each has different ways. Some are expressed outwardly with audible voice, some inwardly, silently, from the centre of the heart. At the Beginning one should declare in words what one remembers, then stage by stage the remembrance spreads throughout one's being—descending to the heart, then rising to the soul; then still further it reaches the realm of the secrets; further to the hidden; he most hidden of the hidden. How far the remembrance penetrates, the level it reaches, depends solely on the extent to which Allah in His bounty has guided one.Remembrance pronounced in words is but a declaration that the heart has Not forgotten Allah. The inward silent remembrance is a movement of the emotions. The remembrance of the is through feeling in oneself the manifestation of Allah's might and beauty, while the remembrance of the soul is through the enlightenment of the divine light Generated by Allah's might and beauty. The remembrance of the level of the secret realm is through the ecstasy received from beholding the divine secrets. The remembrance of the hidden realm brings one to: the place of truth in the presence of a sovereign Omnipotent. (Sura Qamar, 55) The remembrance at the final level that is called ‘ khafi al-akhfa'— 'the most hidden of the hidden' — brings one to a state of annihilation of the self and unification with the truth. In reality none other than Allah knows the state of the one who has penetrated into that realm containing all knowledge, which IS the end of all and everything. Surely He knows the secret and what is yet more hidden. (Sura Ta Ha, 7)When one has passed through these stages of remembrance. A different state of spirit, as if a different soul, is born in one. That soul is purer and finer than all other souls. It is the child of the heart, the child of truth. While in the form of seed, this child invites and attracts man to seek and find the truth; and after it is born this child will urge man to seek the Essence of Allah Most High. Neither this new soul called the child of the heart, nor its seed and potential, is in every man. It is found only in the pure believer: He places the soul with his decree in the hearts of those whom He chooses. (sura mu'min, 15)
This soul is sent from the realm of the All-powerful and is placed in the universe of the visible worlds where the attributes of the creator are manifest in the creation, but it belongs to the realm of truth. It does not favour nor pay any attention to anything but the Essence of Allah. our master the Prophet (saw) explains: 'This world is undesirable and unlawful for those who wish for the hereafter. The hereafter is undesirable for those who wish for this world, and it will not be given to them. But for the souls who seek Allah's Essence, neither this world nor the hereafter has any attraction.' This soul is the child of truth. It is that within one which will seek, find and be with its Lord.Over and above anything you do, the material being in you must follow the straight path. That is only possible through presenting and following the precepts of religion. To do this one should be conscious, to remember-to remember Allah, night and day, inwardly and outwardly, continuously. For those who see the truth, to remember Allah is an obligation. As Allah Order:
“Remember Allah standing and sitting and lying down.” (Sura Nisa 103)

“..Those who remember Allah standing and sitting and lying on their sides,and who reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth. Our lord, Thou hast not created this in vain! glory be to thee…” (SuraAl'Imran ,190)

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