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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Ahadith On Zikir-e-Qalbi

Rasoolallah ( Sallallaho alaihe wasallam ) is reported to have said " for everything there is a purifier or cleanser. The zikir of Almighty Allah cleanses and purifies the heart, and provides the best protection against retribution in the hereafter"

According to some sufis, the zikir in this hadith implies the zikir of the heart ( Zikir-e-qalbi) as against the zikir by the tongue. By Zikir-e-Qalbi, the heart remains always concious of and in Communication with Almighty Allah.

“Hadhrat Ayesha (R.A) has related that Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W) said that Zikr-e-Khafi (hidden Zikr), which even the Angles cannot hear, is seventy times superior to other forms of Zikr. On the day of judgment Angels will present record of every deed of people. Allah will ask the Angles if there is any other deed left to be presented. Angles will reply that there is nothing left anymore. Allah will then inform them that there is still one deed of people remaining and that is the Zikr-e-Khafi (hidden zikr).”
                                                                            (Tafseer-e-Mazhari. Quoted in Dalael-e-Sulook Page 99)

“Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) once said to his companions,” Should I tell you of something that is the best of the deeds and is most pure and raises you stature highest before your Lord. It is even better than spending Gold and Silver (in the way of Allah) and fighting the enemies (of Islam) in a way that you kill them and they kill you. It is the Zikr of Allah.”
(Ahmad & Tirmidhi)

Shaikh-ul-Hadith Mualana Zakriya has illustrated, “Some Sufies have pointed out that above mentioned Hadith refers specifically to Zikr-e-Qalb (Remembrance of Allah in heart) and not Zikr through recitation of supplications. The essence of Zikr-e-Qalb is that the heart feels like fully absorbed in Allah. The author of Majaalis-e-Abrar writes that this Hadith refers to Zikr-e-Qalb as higher form of worship than charity and Jihad because charity, Jihad and all such acts are means for an end and that end is the Zikr of Allah. 

On the authority of hazrath Jaabir(RDA) that Rasoolallah ( Sallallaho alaihe wasallam )once said, " Hazrath Jibraeel(AS) laid so much stress on doing zikir that i felt that without zikir nothing can benefit whatsoever"

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