This abundant remembrance of God is not simply a matter of repeating words. It is, in fact, an intellectual act of seeing God’s signs in material things and learning lessons related to the Hereafter from

Hundreds of people are engaged in such wholesome activities as lessons in religious learning, remembrance of God, heartfelt prayers, recall of our duties to man, the practice of courtesy and so on. In short

centre of Islam and of Islamic life itself, where prayers were held in remembrance of God, people gathered together to remember God, to turn to Him, to help their fellowmen, to recite the Quran and Hadith

reference for the remembrance of his son. When reminded of his son he started crying. Similarly, man’s own existence and the entire world around him are points of reference for the remembrance of God. Every event

serious about God as they were for their children, everything in this world would serve as a reminder of God. Everything would awaken godly thinking in them. They would find a reflection of God in everything

everything. Everything would serve as a reminder of God.

He is God both in the heavens and on earth. He has knowledge of all that you hide and all that you reveal. He knows what you do. AL-AN‘AM, 6:3 Surely prayer restrains one from indecency and evil and remembrance

remembrance of God is greater. God has knowledge of all your actions. AL-‘ANKABUT, 29:45 He who hopes to meet God should know that God’s appointed hour is sure to come. He is the All Hearing, the All

mindful of God—God is ready with forgiveness and an immense reward.” (Al-Ahzab 33:35) This verse shows what Almighty God wishes a man or woman to be like. The ten virtues He would like them to possess

possess are as follows: Islam (submission to God), Faith in God, obedience, truthfulness, patience, sincerity, charity, fasting, chastity and remembrance of God. Just as these qualities are required of men

need to give it back. When I remember this event, it becomes a point of reference for me. I say, “O God, in my life in this world, You have given me everything. Will You deprive me of everything in the life

event of this life will become a point of reference for God’s remembrance and prayer. By referring to every event he starts remembering God. Every event will become such a point of reference as will inspire

inspire him to find new words for prayer. This is true remembrance of God. When a person can have such feelings, he becomes like a tree whose greenery never dries up, and which keeps giving a yield of flowers

remembrance of God is undoubtedly the greatest of all the virtues. Prayer does not just have an external form but also an internal spirit. Whenever the spirit of prayer enters into the life of the worshipper

themselves in him. The repetition of ‘God is great’ in prayer makes him feel small and insignificant. The recitation of the Quran in prayer awakens the consciousness of God in him. Bowing down and self-prostration

Observing prayer behind an Imam teaches him the lesson of sociability. To say ‘Peace and the blessings of God be upon you’ at the end of prayer arouses in him the sentiment that the feeling of peace and blessings

system for man? God! Who has provided all the needs of man? Again it is God. Who has given man such a mind that, living on this planet Earth, he can encompass the entire universe? It is God alone! Realization

Realization of God is the discovery of the Benefactor who is the source of all blessings. When man attains this realization in the real sense, the love of God wells up within him. Every fibre of his being is

is enlightened with divine love. Obedience to God is, without doubt, the demand of faith, but it would be an underestimation of the love of God if it is taken only in the sense of obedience. Obedience

would be an underestimation of the love of God if it is taken only in the sense of obedience. Obedience is only a legal description of the relationship with God, whereas love entails man’s entire existence

existence being moulded in the remembrance of God. Man comes to acknowledge God in the perfect sense when it is with the whole of his being. Faith in God is for man to discover God to the extent of loving Him

The Quran says that “those who believe love God most.” (2:165) One who loves God the most is one who has made God his object of worship. Real love for God will find expression in many ways. Even uttering

into a form of Christian monasticism. As for what is mistakenly called dhikr bil Jahr (loud remembrance of God)—repetitive recitation of this contradicts the very purpose of fasting, which is spiritual

life, but also the renunciation of lawful things for the duration of the fast. In seeking nearness to God, the believer must cut himself off from all worldliness. Although fasting, in its specific and definite

and turning to God not in a physical sense, but in one’s consciousness, one’s spirituality. The supreme state of faith is for one’s heart and mind to be continually directed towards God, whatever one’s