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The
excellence of remembrance
Allaah
(Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala) says:
{Therefore
remember Me, I will remember you and be grateful to Me, and
never be ungrateful to me}, [Soorah
al-Baqarah, Aayah
152]
{O
you who believe! Remember Allaah with much remembrance},
[Soorah
al-Ahzaab, Aayah
41]
{And
for men and women who engage much in Allaah's remembrance,
for them has Allaah prepared forgiveness and great reward},
[Soorah
al-Ahzaab, Aayah
35]
{And
bring your Lord to remembrance in your [very] soul, with humility
and remember without loudness in words, in the mornings and
evenings; and be not of those who are unheedful},
[Soorah
al-A'raaf, Aayah
205]
The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((The
comparison of the one who remembers Allaah and the one who
does not remember Allaah, is like that of the living and the
dead)), [al-Bukhaaree
with al-Fat.h 11/208 and Muslim
1/539]
He
(sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) also said:
((Should
I not inform you of the best of deeds, and the most sanctifying
of deeds before your Lord, which does more to raise your positions
[with Him], and are better for you than the disbursement of
gold and money or battle with the enemy?))
They [the companions] said: "Indeed! Inform us."
He
(sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) then said:
((Remembrance
of Allaah (Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala))), [at-Tirmidhee 5/459 and Ibn
Maajah 2/1245, see: Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/316 and Saheeh at-Tirmidhee
3/139]
The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) also said:
((Allaah
(Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala) says: "Indeed
I am as My servant presumes Me to be, and I am with him when
he remembers Me, so if he remembers Me to himself I remember
him to Myself, and if he remembers Me amongst a company I
remember him amongst a company greater than it, and if he
draws near to Me the span of a hand I draw near to him the
span of an arm, and if he draws near to Me the span of an
arm I draw near to him the span of two outstretched arms,
and if he takes a step towards Me I hastily step towards him")),
[al-Bukhaaree
8/171 and Muslim
4/2061, this specific wording is related by al-Bukhaaree]
On
the authority of 'Abdullaah Ibn Busr (radhi-yallaahu
'anhu): "A man said to the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam): "O Messenger of Allaah, the rites
of Islaam are much for me, so tell me of something that I
might hold fast to"
He
(sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((Let
not your tongue cease from the remembrance of Allaah)),
[at-Tirmidhee 5/458 and Ibn Maajah 2/1246, see: Saheeh at-Tirmidhee
3/139 and Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/317]
The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) also said:
((Whoever
recites a letter of Allaah's Book has for it, a merit and
ten more like it, not to say that alif, laam, meem are one
letter but rather alif is a letter, laam is a letter and meem
is a letter)), [at-Tirmidhee 5/175, see: Saheeh
at-Tirmidhee 3/9 and Saheeh al-Jaami' as-Sagheer 5/340]
'Uqbah Ibn 'Aamir (radhi-yallaahu
'anhu) relates that Allaah's Messenger (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) came out when we were in as-Suffah
and said:
((Are
there any of you who would wish to go every day to Buthaan
or al-'Aeeq [i.e., the name of two ditches in al-Madeenah]
in the early morning and return from it with two she-camels
without incurring any sin or severing relations?))
We [the companions] said: "We would indeed love that,
O Messenger of Allaah"
He
(sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((then
you should go to the mosque and acquire some knowledge, or
recite two aayaat from the Book of Allaah, that would be better
for you than two she-camels, and three aayaat are better than
three she-camels, and four aayaat
are better than four she-camels, and the same for a like number
of male camels)), [Muslim
1/553]
The
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) also said:
((Whoever
takes a seat and fails to remember Allaah, has incurred upon
himself a loss from Allaah, and whoever lies down [relaxes]
and fails to remember Allaah, has incurred upon himself a
loss from Allaah)), [Abu Daawood 4/264 and others,
see: Saheeh al-Jaami' 5/342.]
He
(sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) also said:
((Whenever
a people sit in a gathering in which they fail to remember
Allaah and send prayers upon the Prophet they incur a loss
upon themselves and if Allaah willed He would punish them
and if He willed He would forgive them)), [at-Tirmidhee,
see: Saheeh at-Tirmidhee 3/140. ]
Similarly,
he (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said:
((Whenever
a people rise from a gathering in which they failed to remember
Allaah, they rise as if they had arisen from the corpse of
an ass and incurring upon themselves grief)), [Abu
Daawood 4/264 and Ahmad 2/389, see: Saheeh al-Jaami' 5/176]
Please
note:
All supplications are taken from the English translation of
Hisnul-Muslim ("Fortification of the Muslim through
Remembrance and Supplication from the Qur.aan and Sunnah"),
as published by Invitation
To Islam.
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