Dhikr

Dhikr (sometimes Zikr) literally means Remembrance, and in our context, the Remembrance of God.

Allah says in the Qur'an:


Thus establishing the importance of Dhikr.

There are three degrees of Allah's remembrance:

1. The verbal declaration of remembrance
   
   
2. Descent of the remembrance from the tongue to the heart
   
   
3. The penetration of the remembrance to the soul - the silent remembrance, where the essence of it spreads to the whole being. The physical manifestation of this is a violent shaking of the body, the words Allah and Hu coming out of one in screams without one's control, and finally, a loss of consciousness

The idea behind Dhikr is the Remembrance of God. Thus, one who wishes for divine acquaintance must lengthen his/her remembrance until the declaration by the tongue sinks to the heart and then penetrates into one's secret and one's essence. If one continues to keep the remembrance of Allah in one's heart day and night, the human soul, strengthened, overcomes the animal soul in one.

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