God says
Verily, I -- I alone – am God: there is no deity save Me. Hence worship Me alone and be constant in prayer, so as to remember Me ! * -- Q.20:14
*Thus, conscious remembrance of God and of His oneness and uniqueness is declared to be the innermost purpose, as well as the intellectual justification, of all true prayer.
O you who have attained to faith! Remember God with unceasing remembrance, and extol His limitless glory from morning till evening.* -- Q.33:41,42
* Lit. “at morning and evening”, i.e., at all times.
Prophet said
‘The best Zikr is: There is no deity but God (LA ILAHA ILLAL LAH), and the best invocation is: All praise is to God (ALHAMDU LILLAH)’ - Titmizi. Narrator: Jaber.
‘Before departing from the prayer at dawn whoever utters ten times LA ILAHA ILLAL LAHU WAHDAHU LA SHAREEKA LAHU LAHUL MULKU WA LAHUL HAMDU WA HUWA ‘ALA KULLI SHAIYIN QADEER – ten virtues are recorded for him for every utterance, ten sins are effaced from him, and ten ranks are raised up for him….’ – Part of H:Tirmizi. N: Abu Zarr.
Modes of Zikr.
Given below are a few hymns of great value.
TASBIH: ‘SUBHANAL LAH’ (Glory be to God).
TAKBIR: ‘ALLAHU AKBAR’ (God is the greatest).
TAHLIL : ‘LA ILAHA ILLAL LAH’ (There is no deity but God).
TAHMID: ‘AL HAMDU LILLAH’ (All praise is due to God alone).
TAQDIS : ‘SUBHANAL MALIKUL QUDDOOS’. (Glory be to the Holy King)
LAHAUL : ‘LA HAULA WALA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAH’ (There is no power and no might or movement except with God).
(Following combination of five hymns makes an excellent ZIKR.)
SUBHANALLAHI, WALHAMDU LIL-LAHI, WALA ILAHA ILLAL-LAHU, WALLAAHU AKBAR, WA LA HAULA WALA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAH
Friday, October 28, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
3.25. ZIKR AFTER FARZ PRAYER (to be continued)
God says
…and all men and women who remember God unceasingly: for [all of] them has God readied forgiveness of sins and a mighty reward. -- Q.33:35
The word ‘Zikr’ has very wide connotation. It is done at heart, done by tongue, and also by deed. Daily prayers, fasting, zakat, and Haj as well as any speech or act in obedience to God are only different modes of Zikr.
Choice and number of Zikr after the Farz prayer is entirely an optional matter.
Prophet said
I was praying while the Prophet (P.A.B.U.H) was present with Abu Bakr and Omer. (After the prayer) I sat down and began with praise to God and then blessings on the Prophet. Then I supplicated for myself. The Messenger of Allah said: “Seek and you will be given, seek and you will be given”.
In the light of the above Tradition quoted by Tirmizi on the authority of Abdullah-b-Masud: Recommended below is the Zikr after Farz before supplication,
(1) Say the following in bold letters three times:
(meanings below each are to be borne in mind)
SUBHAN-ALLAH WA BIHAMDIHI
(glory be to God and praise due to Him)
ADADA QHALQIHI …
(as many times as the multitude of His creation)
REDHA NAFSEHI …
(as much as the Pleasure of His Noble self)
WAZENATA ‘ARSHEHI …
(equal to the awesome weight of His Throne)
MIDADA KALEMATEHI. …
(as much as the ink of His Noble Words)
The above was commended by the Prophet (P.A.B.U.H)
(2) DUROOD SHARIF …ten times
Then supplicate.
Start with the famous supplication of prophet Abraham:
“RABANAGH-FIRLI WA LE-WALEDAYYA
WA- LIL-MOMININA, YAOMA YAQUMUL-HISAAB” -- (Q.14:41)
(Grant Thy forgiveness unto me, and my parents,
and all the believers, on the Day on which
the [last] reckoning will come to pass”)
{Prayer, Zikr and supplication, all need our full attention,
because God does not listen to silent heart }
…and all men and women who remember God unceasingly: for [all of] them has God readied forgiveness of sins and a mighty reward. -- Q.33:35
The word ‘Zikr’ has very wide connotation. It is done at heart, done by tongue, and also by deed. Daily prayers, fasting, zakat, and Haj as well as any speech or act in obedience to God are only different modes of Zikr.
Choice and number of Zikr after the Farz prayer is entirely an optional matter.
Prophet said
I was praying while the Prophet (P.A.B.U.H) was present with Abu Bakr and Omer. (After the prayer) I sat down and began with praise to God and then blessings on the Prophet. Then I supplicated for myself. The Messenger of Allah said: “Seek and you will be given, seek and you will be given”.
In the light of the above Tradition quoted by Tirmizi on the authority of Abdullah-b-Masud: Recommended below is the Zikr after Farz before supplication,
(1) Say the following in bold letters three times:
(meanings below each are to be borne in mind)
SUBHAN-ALLAH WA BIHAMDIHI
(glory be to God and praise due to Him)
ADADA QHALQIHI …
(as many times as the multitude of His creation)
REDHA NAFSEHI …
(as much as the Pleasure of His Noble self)
WAZENATA ‘ARSHEHI …
(equal to the awesome weight of His Throne)
MIDADA KALEMATEHI. …
(as much as the ink of His Noble Words)
The above was commended by the Prophet (P.A.B.U.H)
(2) DUROOD SHARIF …ten times
Then supplicate.
Start with the famous supplication of prophet Abraham:
“RABANAGH-FIRLI WA LE-WALEDAYYA
WA- LIL-MOMININA, YAOMA YAQUMUL-HISAAB” -- (Q.14:41)
(Grant Thy forgiveness unto me, and my parents,
and all the believers, on the Day on which
the [last] reckoning will come to pass”)
{Prayer, Zikr and supplication, all need our full attention,
because God does not listen to silent heart }
Friday, October 14, 2011
3.25. ZIKR AFTER FARZ PRAYER (to be continued)
God says
And when you have performed your acts of worship, [continue to] bear God in mind as you will bear your fathers in mind – nay, yet with a keener remembrance… Q.2:200
Prophet said
Saoban reported: When Messenger of God finished his prayer, he recited ‘Istaqhfar’ thrice and said: “Al-la-hum-ma An-tas Salam wa min-kas Salamo taba-rak-ta ya Zal-jalale wal ikraam” (O God, Thou art the Peace and from Thee is peace; Blessed art Thou, O Lord of Glory and honor) -- H: Muslim.
‘At the end of prayer (Farz), whoever recites ‘TASBIH(Subhanallah) ’ 33 times, ‘TAHMID (Alhamdulillah)’ 33 times, and ‘Takbir (Allaho Akbar) ’ 33 times, and completes the hundred by saying: la ilaha illal lahu wahdahu la shareeka lahu lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu wa huwa ‘ala kulli shaiyin qadeer * (There is no deity except God, He is One; There is no partner for Him; His is the kingdom, and for Him is all praise, and He has power over all things) his minor sins are forgiven if even if those are like the foams of the sea’ -- H: Muslim. N: Abu Hurairah.
*This kalimah should be taken to memory and recited morning and evening.
And when you have performed your acts of worship, [continue to] bear God in mind as you will bear your fathers in mind – nay, yet with a keener remembrance… Q.2:200
Prophet said
Saoban reported: When Messenger of God finished his prayer, he recited ‘Istaqhfar’ thrice and said: “Al-la-hum-ma An-tas Salam wa min-kas Salamo taba-rak-ta ya Zal-jalale wal ikraam” (O God, Thou art the Peace and from Thee is peace; Blessed art Thou, O Lord of Glory and honor) -- H: Muslim.
‘At the end of prayer (Farz), whoever recites ‘TASBIH(Subhanallah) ’ 33 times, ‘TAHMID (Alhamdulillah)’ 33 times, and ‘Takbir (Allaho Akbar) ’ 33 times, and completes the hundred by saying: la ilaha illal lahu wahdahu la shareeka lahu lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu wa huwa ‘ala kulli shaiyin qadeer * (There is no deity except God, He is One; There is no partner for Him; His is the kingdom, and for Him is all praise, and He has power over all things) his minor sins are forgiven if even if those are like the foams of the sea’ -- H: Muslim. N: Abu Hurairah.
*This kalimah should be taken to memory and recited morning and evening.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
3.24. PRAYER OPTIONAL: TAHAJJUD (concluded)
God says
[Only they [truly] believe in Our messages],…. who are impelled to rise from their beds [at night] to call out to their Sustainer in fear and hope; and who spend on others out of what We provide for them as sustenance. -- Q.32:15,16
Behold, the God-conscious will find themselves amid gardens and springs, enjoying all that their Sustainer will have granted them [because] they were doers of good in the past [in the world]: they] would lie asleep during but a small part of the night, and would pray for forgiveness before the daybreak; and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as may ask [for help] and such as might suffer privation.* Q.51:15-19
*Sc., “but could not beg” – and this applies to all living creatures, whether human beings or mute animals (Razi) irrespective of whether their need is of a physical or an emotional nature.
Imam Ghazali quotes thus about the famous Islamic figure: It is reported that someone dreamt of al-Junayd (may God sanctify his heart) after he had died, and asked, ‘What is the news ‘Abu I- Qasim?’ He said, ‘Those expressions were vide of the mark, and those counsels came to nothing. Nothing was of benefit to me except some small prayers I made in the middle of the night’.*
( Al-Ghazali :letter to a disciple – tr. by Tobias Mayer.)
*Allah-o-Akbar! Shows how important are the voluntary prayers at the time of Tahajjud? Desire to do it? Set the alarm clock or let someone wake you up for a few nights. It will become easy, then, for you to get up.
Prophet said
“Whoever gets up from sleep (later) in the night and says: LA ILAHA ILLAL LAHU, WAHDAHU- LA-SHAREEKA LAHU, LAHUL MULKU WA LAHUL HAMDU WA HUWA ‘ALA KULLI SHAIYIN QADEER (There is no deity except God; He is one; there is no partner for Him; His is the Kingdom, and for Him is all praise, and He has power over all things), and says: SUBHANAL LAHI, WAL HAMDU LILLAHI, WALA ILAHA ILLAL LAHU, WALLAHU AKBAR, WALA HAULA WALA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAH (Glory be to God, and praise be to God, and there is no deity but God, and God is the greatest, and there is no power and no movement except through God) and then he says: RABBIGH FIRLI (O Lord! Forgive); (after that) if he makes ablution and prays, his prayer will be accepted” -- H: Bukhari. N: Obadah-b-Swamit.
[Only they [truly] believe in Our messages],…. who are impelled to rise from their beds [at night] to call out to their Sustainer in fear and hope; and who spend on others out of what We provide for them as sustenance. -- Q.32:15,16
Behold, the God-conscious will find themselves amid gardens and springs, enjoying all that their Sustainer will have granted them [because] they were doers of good in the past [in the world]: they] would lie asleep during but a small part of the night, and would pray for forgiveness before the daybreak; and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as may ask [for help] and such as might suffer privation.* Q.51:15-19
*Sc., “but could not beg” – and this applies to all living creatures, whether human beings or mute animals (Razi) irrespective of whether their need is of a physical or an emotional nature.
Imam Ghazali quotes thus about the famous Islamic figure: It is reported that someone dreamt of al-Junayd (may God sanctify his heart) after he had died, and asked, ‘What is the news ‘Abu I- Qasim?’ He said, ‘Those expressions were vide of the mark, and those counsels came to nothing. Nothing was of benefit to me except some small prayers I made in the middle of the night’.*
( Al-Ghazali :letter to a disciple – tr. by Tobias Mayer.)
*Allah-o-Akbar! Shows how important are the voluntary prayers at the time of Tahajjud? Desire to do it? Set the alarm clock or let someone wake you up for a few nights. It will become easy, then, for you to get up.
Prophet said
“Whoever gets up from sleep (later) in the night and says: LA ILAHA ILLAL LAHU, WAHDAHU- LA-SHAREEKA LAHU, LAHUL MULKU WA LAHUL HAMDU WA HUWA ‘ALA KULLI SHAIYIN QADEER (There is no deity except God; He is one; there is no partner for Him; His is the Kingdom, and for Him is all praise, and He has power over all things), and says: SUBHANAL LAHI, WAL HAMDU LILLAHI, WALA ILAHA ILLAL LAHU, WALLAHU AKBAR, WALA HAULA WALA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAH (Glory be to God, and praise be to God, and there is no deity but God, and God is the greatest, and there is no power and no movement except through God) and then he says: RABBIGH FIRLI (O Lord! Forgive); (after that) if he makes ablution and prays, his prayer will be accepted” -- H: Bukhari. N: Obadah-b-Swamit.
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