{"id":2792,"date":"2022-02-18T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2022-02-18T21:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:41:25","slug":"remembering-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/remembering-allah\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Allah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All praise and thanks is for Allah SWT. Please and blessings\non our Prophet, his family and his companions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s reminder is on remembering Allah SWT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers and sisters, as Muslims our aim in life is\nquite simple. It is to follow the steps laid out in the Quran and the Sunnah to\nworship Allah SWT through our deeds and our intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, everything we do for Allah SWT stems from a single\nsource and that is the acknowledgement and remembrance of Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allah SWT has mentioned dhikr (or remembrance of Allah) over\na hundred times in the Glorious Quran. In Sura Al-Imran, ayat 190 and 191,\nAllah SWT says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, in the creation of the\nheavens and the earth and the alternation of the day and night there are signs\nfor people of reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u02f9They are\u02fa those who remember\nAllah while standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and reflect on the\ncreation of the heavens and the earth \u02f9and pray\u02fa, \u201cOur Lord! You have not\ncreated \u02f9all of\u02fa this without purpose. Glory be to You! Protect us from the torment\nof the Fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers and sisters, if we look at these ayat. amongst\nthe many lessons is one of the need for us to remember Allah SWT wherever we\nmay be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how can we remember&nbsp;Allah throughout the normal\ncourse of our day without withdrawing from the routine of our daily worldly\nlife?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way we can attempt to do this is to remind ourselves of\nthe reward of remembering Allah SWT. This was mentioned by the imam in todays\nreminder and a few of those references are mentioned now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, Sura Ar-Ra\u2019d, ayat 28 is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>those who believe and whose\nhearts find comfort in the remembrance of Allah. Surely in the remembrance of\nAllah do hearts find comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Sura Al-Ahzab, ayat 35 which is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely \u02f9for\u02fa Muslim men and women, believing men and women,1&nbsp;devout\nmen and women, truthful men and women, patient men and women, humble men and\nwomen, charitable men and women, fasting men and women, men and women who guard\ntheir chastity, and men and women who remember Allah often\u2014for \u02f9all of\u02fa them\nAllah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers and sisters, it might seem a mighty task at\nfirst, but one we can accomplish with some ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so what follows then are four states of consciousness\nthat we must strive to develop by remembering certain things, absorbing them\nand reminding ourselves of them often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Say to ourselves: \u201cI am in Allah\u2019s presence; He\nis watching me.\u201d<br>\nIf ever we are alone, He is the second and that if we are two, He is the third.\nHe is with us wherever we are. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nimam emphasised this through the following hadith in which Allah SWT conveyed\nthe following to the messenger SAWS. It is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am near to the thought of My\nservant as he thinks about Me, and I am with him as he remembers Me. And if he\nremembers Me in his heart, I also remember him in My Heart, and if he remembers\nMe in assembly I remember him in assembly, better than his (remembrance), and\nif he draws near Me by the span of a palm, I draw near him by the cubit, and if\nhe draws near Me by the cubit I draw near him by the space (covered by) two\nhands. And if he walks towards Me, I rush towards him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets try to remind ourselves of this as often as we can, and throughout\nthe day every time we begin a new task, and every time we speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Say to ourselves. \u201cEverything I have has been\ngiven to me by Allah.\u201d<br>\nAll that there is surrounding us, on us and in us comes from Allah alone. There\nis none that creates or gives anything but Allah. Therefore, reflect upon all\nthe blessings that He has blessed us with and be thankful to Him. Say\nAlhamdullilah. In all the sayings that our beloved Prophet (SAWS) has taught us\nto remember Allah with, gratefulness to Allah is a constant theme.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Say to ourselves: \u201cNothing in this world can\nhappen without His permission.\u201d<br>\nEverything lies in the hands of Allah. No harm can befall us and no benefit can\nreach us except as Allah ordains.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>And finally, Say to ourselves: \u201cI am going to\nreturn to Allah one day and that day could be today.\u201d<br>\nDear brothers and sisters, we do not know when we will leave this world. It may\nbe that this hour is our last hour, or even, that this moment is our last\nmoment. Such an uncertainty does not, of course, justify a complete withdrawal\nfrom this life.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we should aim that we are\nalways conscious of this uncertainty, to the extent that it motivates us to\nspend every moment of our remaining life seriously, considering it as a gift\nfrom Allah and spending the resources He has blessed us with such as time,\nability and energy as Allah has advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers and sisters, the rememberce of Allah SWT comes\nfrom living life, not on autopilot without thought but from pondering over the life\nwe have been given. By doing so we can aim to be of those who remember Allah\nSWT and are of those who were spoken of by the Prophet SAWS in the following\nhadith: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWould you like me to tell you\nthe best and purest of your deeds in the estimation of your King, those which\nraise your degrees highest, those which are better for you than spending gold\nand silver, and are better for you than that you should meet your enemy and cut\noff one another&#8217;s head?\u201d On receiving a reply in the affirmative he said, \u201cIt\nis remembering God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May Allah SWT enable us to remember Him in all states. May\nAllah SWT enable us to adhere to these four points mentioned above. And May\nAllah SWT reward us for our efforts in remembering Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ameen Walhamdullilahirabilalameen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All praise and thanks is for Allah SWT. Please and blessings on our Prophet, his family and his companions. 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