Important parts related to the nature, types, virtues and benefits of dhikr were included in the compilations made in the later periods, and independent books dealing with dhikr were written. Many books that compiled the supplications (duas) to read regularly in daily life or advised to be read on special occasions with their narrations with the titles like “kitabudh-dhikr, kitabud-dua, kitabu amalil-yawmi wal-layla” were written beginning from the first periods of Islam. We are ordered to mention and glorify Allah a lot by begging sincerely and in fear with a low voice in the chapter of al-A‘raf, 7/205 and the chapter of al-Ahzab it is emphasized in the chapter of al-Ankabut, 29/45 that remembering/mentioning Him is superior to everything and it is stated that remembering/mentioning Allah is the most important one among the deeds of worship. “By men whom neither traffic nor merchandise can divert from the Remembrance of Allah, nor from regular Prayer, nor from the practice of regular Charity: Their (only) fear is for the Day when hearts and eyes will be transformed (in a world wholly new).” As a matter of fact, the following is stated in the following verse for such people: Even if a person whose heart is alert and makes dhikr is busy with a worldly work, his heart remembers Allah. A person who does not mention his Lord is busy with a worldly work, is away from apparent worship and his inner worship is also wrong. That is, a person who mentions his Lord is alive and the one that does not mention his Lord is dead. “The example of the one who mentions his Lord in comparison to the one who does not mention his Lord is that of a living person and a dead one.” As a matter of fact, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) states the following in a hadith: A tongue that does not make dhikr is like an eye that does not see, an ear that does not hear and a hand that does not hold.
Įvery organ has a way of worshipping the heart and the tongue worship through dhikr. “When ye pass (Congregational) prayers, celebrate Allah´s praises, standing, sitting down, or lying down on your sides!”. “O ye who believe! Celebrate the praises of Allah, and do this often.”
“But keep in remembrance the name of thy Lord and devote thyself to Him whole-heartedly.” , Be grateful to Me, and reject not Faith.” , “Then do ye remember Me I will remember you.