Remembrance of Allah - True Gratitude of His Bounties
Speech Opening Session 24
December 25, 2009 – 3:45 PM
Waseem A. Sayed
th West Coast Jalsa Salana USA
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كُمْ مِّنْ کُلِّ مَا سَاَلْتُمُوْ ه وَاِنْ تَعُدُّوْا نِعْمَتَ اﻟّٰﻠﻪِ لَا تُحْصُوْهَاؕ اِنَّ الْاِنْسَانَ لَظَلُوْمٌ كَفَّارٌ
14:35 ] وَاٰتٰ ]
And He gave you all that you wanted of Him; and if you try to
count the favors of Allah, you will not be able to number them.
Verily, man is very unjust, very ungrateful.
16:19 ]
وَاِنْ تَعُدُّوْا نِعْمَةَ اﻟّٰﻠﻪِ لَا تُحْصُوْهَاؕ اِنَّ اﻟّٰﻠﻪ لَغَفُوْرٌ رَّ حِيْمٌ ]
And if you try to count the favors of Allah, you will not be able
to number them. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.
Zikr-e-Ilahi, the Remembrance of Allah – True Gratitude of His Bounties is
the topic assigned to me..and as I began to write what I would say, I read,
and re-read the subject, and the way the topic settled in my mind is that
constantly
being occupied in Zikr-e-Ilahi, in the Remembrance of Allah
IS
This is what the Holy Quran Says:
the way to show true gratitude to God, for His numberless bounties..
3:191 ]
اِنَّ فِىْ خَلْقِ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَالْاَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اليَّْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَاٰيٰتٍ لِّاُولِىْ الْاَلبَْابِۖۚ ]
In the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the
alternation of the night and the day there are indeed Signs for
men of understanding;
جُنُوْبِهِمْ وَيَتَفَكَّرُوْنَ فِىْ خَلْقِ السَّمٰوٰتِ
3:192 ] الذَِّيْنَ يَذْكُرُوْنَ اﻟّٰﻠﻪَ قِيَامًا وَّقُعُوْدًا وَّعَ ٰ ]
وَالْاَرْ ض رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هٰذَا بَاطِلًاۚ سُبْحٰنَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ
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Those who remember Allah while standing, sitting, and lying
on their sides, and ponder over the creation of the heavens and
the earth: “Our Lord, Thou hast not created this in vain; nay,
Holy art Thou; save us, then, from the punishment of the Fire.
and that then occupy themselves constantly in the remembrance of Allah..I will
come back to this ‘need of understanding’ later.
Indeed, the importance of Zikr-e-Ilahi, the Remembrance of Allah, cannot be
overstated.
Allah, the Exalted, says precisely this when we read in the Holy Quran:
There is just one proviso…that it is the men of understanding ..that see the signs
…and remembrance of Allah indeed is the greatest virtue…
(29:46)
That is, remembrance of Allah is higher in status than all other acts of
worship.
This is why Islam places constant emphasis upon it.
We find frequent reminders about it in the Holy Qur’an, for example,
And remember the name of thy Lord during the morning as well
as the evening.
Similarly there is a Hadith in which the Holy Prophet (
wa sallam
Allah they are surrounded by angels and are covered by mercy from their
Lord.
(76:26)sallallahu alaihi) says, when people gather together for the remembrance of
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So this is a most well planned Programme
has been placed the presentation of a topic that, if we remember
throughout, will attract the Angels of God....and as we continue to occupy
ourselves in the remembrance of Allah - more and more angels will gather
around us and bring with them the blessings and mercy of Allah…and if we
maintain ourselves in this, throughout the three days, when we depart…a
veritable host of angels will leave, as we leave, and ascend to Heaven and
report on what we all were occupied with and Allah will ask of them what
they observed..and the ahadith tell us that upon learning of our so being
occupied Allah will forgive us and even those who came to be with us just
casually..
The angels are real…perhaps at no time in history has it been easier for us
to understand the existence of angels than today…the field theoretic
concepts in use in modern physics require us to believe in the existence of
invisible fields and the role that the angels play in the operation of the
spiritual universe is similar…
Yes, angels exist and it is they who urge us to the doing of good..and the
advantages to a person of being constantly occupied in the remembrance of
Allah are, therefore, obvious…
The more time he or she spends in the remembrance of Allah, the more will
the angels be with such a person and the more they will constantly remind
him or her to perform good deeds.
Then God Almighty says:
…at the outset of which
O ye who believe let not your wealth and your children divert
you from the remembrance of Allah…
I have often cited the case of children how when they are bestowed by a
parent or an elder a gift and precious gift they like and enjoy..how
sometimes one sees that the child becomes so engrossed in and with the gift
(63:10)
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that he or she becomes quite oblivious to the bestower! How when they
grow up, if they are given a car for example, they forget about the one who
gave them the car…and begin to worship the car!
Allah is telling us that HE has given us gifts far more precious than we will
ever give our children…He has given us the very wealth that we use to
bestow gifts upon our children and it is HE HIMSELF WHO HAS GIVEN
US THE VERY CHILDREN WE HAVE…so He says do not forget ME…let
not your wealth that I gave you and the Children that I bestowed upon
you…how invaluable are these gifts of Mine..do not let these become the
cause of your forgetting ME!
And then we are told:
O ye who believe, remember Allah much. And glorify Him
morning and evening.
The Holy Prophet (sa) has stressed the importance of
Hadhrat Abu Musa Ash’ari (ra) relates that the Holy Prophet (sa) said,
(33:42–43)Zikr in his Hadith.
“The comparison between a person who remembers his Lord and the one
who does not do so, is like that of the living and the dead.”
That is, he who remembers Allah is alive and he who does not is dead.
This clearly shows how important remembrance of Allah is.
Now, I want to come back to the relationship of this topic with Gratitude ..
We read in the Holy Quran:
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وَهْنٍ وَّفِصٰلُهٗ فِىْ عَامَيْنِ اَنِ اشْكُرْ لِىْ ْنَا الْاِنْسٰنَ بِوٰلِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ اُمُّهٗ وَهْنًا عَ ٰ
31:15 ] وَوَصَّ ]
وَلِوَالِدَيْكَؕ اِلَى الْمَصِيْرُ
And We have enjoined on man concerning his parents — his mother bears
him in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning takes two years —
‘Give thanks to Me and to thy parents.
Unto Me is the final return.
ْتُمْ مَّنَاسِكَکُمْ فَاذْکُرُوْا اﻟّٰﻠﻪَ كَذِكْرِكُمْ اٰبَآءَکُمْ اَوْ اَشَدَّ ذِکْرًاؕ فَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَّقُوْلُ رَبَّنَآ اٰتِنَا
2:201 ] فَاِذَا قَضَ ]
فِىْ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا لهَٗ فِىْ الْاٰخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلَاقٍ
And when you have performed the acts of worship prescribed for you,
celebrate the praises of Allah as you celebrated the praises of
your fathers, or even more than that.
who say, ‘Our Lord, grant us good things in this world;’ and such a one
shall have no share in the Hereafter.
And of men there are some
ْنَاكَ عَنْهُ م تُرِيْدُ يُرِيْدُوْنَ وَجْهَهٗ وَلَا تَعْدُ عَ
18:29 ] وَاصْبِرْ نفَْسَكَمَعَ الذَِّيْنَ يَدْعُوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالغَْدٰوةِ وَالعَْ ِّ ]
هُ وَ کَانَ اَمْرُهٗ فُرُطًا زِيْنَةَ الحْيَٰوةِ الدُّنْيَ ا وَ لَا تُطِعْ مَنْ اَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهٗ عَنْ ذِكْرِنَا وَاتَّبَعَ هٰو
And keep thyself attached to those who call on their Lord,
morning and evening, seeking His pleasure; and let not thy eyes
pass beyond them, seeking the adornment of the life of the
world; and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of
Our remembrance and who follows his evil inclinations, and his
case exceeds all bounds.
We live in an age in which the preoccupation is with the material things and no one
has a concept of the value of God and of gratitude..
Indeed, people are not just blind to the numberless of bounties of God, rather they
complain..
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How often have we heard the question..what kind of God it is that permits an
innocent baby to be born with this defect or that disease..
Quite apart from the fact what was the contribution of others’ actions in the
occurrence of this and even accepting that it does sometimes so happen and in any
case it is not the fault of the innocent new born…yet the question that first comes
to mind is:
the falling of each raindrop
God..millions indeed billions of babies are born so perfectly…if one begins to list
the subtle balances and protections built in to safeguard us and to support our
existence the mind boggles..
I always say to such people and ask them: So you would have a world without hills
and valleys and peaks and plains…yours would be a world devoid of pain and
suffering…
Then where and how would we make all these advances and how would you
arrange for evolution if it were not for these types of things that God has made
with a purpose…
If one spend a little time researching PAIN – the wonderful benefits we derive
from it would easily become evident…
But only to the men of understanding…who, at seeing the signs of Allah, do not
mock them…rather they ponder and reflect and humbly submit in awe of the grand
creation and grace and mercy and immense bounties of God…
It is those that cannot stand to let go of their own ego and pride and arrogance that
despite seeing everything yet remain defiant and audacity hurls them into the
rejection of God’s immense and patent grace and mercy and numberless
bounties…
…and if you spend a little time on seeing how much increase of knowledge we
have gained from the study of diseases..then you would have to agree with the
Holy Quran when it proclaims:
How many times do such people break out into hallelujahs uponand for the innumerable other blessings and graces of
67:1 ]
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ ال رَّحِيمِ ]
Merciful.
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ءٍ قَدِيْ ر کُلِّ َْ
67:2 ] تَبٰرَكَ الذَِّىْ بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ وَهُوَ عَ ٰ ]
Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power
over all things;
َبْلُوَكُمْ اَيُّكُمْ اَحْسَنُ عَمَلًاؕ وَهُوَ العَْزِيْزُ الغَْفُوْ رۙ
67:3 ] اۨلذَِّىْ خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالحْيَٰوةَ لِ ]
Who has created death and life that He might try you — which
of you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Most
Forgiving.
67:4 ]
الذَِّىْ خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمٰوٰتٍ طِبَاقًاؕ مَا تَرٰى فِىْ خَلْقِ الرَّحْمٰنِ مِنْ تَفٰوُتٍ فَارْجِعِ البَْصَرَۙ هَلْ ]
تَرٰى مِنْ فُطُوْ ر
Who has created seven heavens in harmony. No incongruity
canst thou see in the creation of the Gracious God. Then look
again: Seest thou any flaw?
67:5 ]
ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ البَْصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنْقَلِبْ اِليَْكَ البَْصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَّ هُوَ حَسِيْر ]
Aye, look again, and yet again, thy sight will only return unto
thee confused and fatigued.
Pain is not purpose less, suffering is not senseless..
The state of affairs of our epoc is summed up so beautifully in Sura Al-Kahf:
ُنُهُمْ فِىْ غِطَآءٍ عَنْ ذِكْرِىْ وَکَانُوْا لَا يَسْتَطِيْعُوْنَ سَمْعً ا
18:102 ]ۨ الذَِّيْنَ کَانَتْ اَعْ ]
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[18:102] Whose eyes were under a veil so the thought never
occurred to them even of My Remembrance, and they could not
even hear.
The meaning is much better captured in the Urdu and I have tried to give
this meaning here..
his arrogance whenever he hastily pronounces upon imperfections he feels
he has found invariably lead us always and always to the discovery of yet
more wonderful aspects of Allah’s creation..
There is so much for which we have to be grateful that we do not even know
of..I remember still the first time I met a friend, a Professor of Mathematics
from Pakistan who had no pores in the skin that all of us take for
granted..but because of this he could not sweat….and…
Then recently I learnt of another enormous bounty of Allah that you and I
all enjoy and never paid anything for and likely never thanked Allah for..
We have all heard of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onasis..it is said
that his eye lids were taped open in the morning and kept that way all
day..because the muscles responsible for lifting them failed to function due
to some disease..
The truth is that everything that Allah has created is so perfect that man in
But how many things are there for which we have to be
grateful..how beautifully the Promised Messiah and Imam
Mahdi, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, peace be on him, has
captured this:
He says in a Urdu couplet:
Sab kuch taree ata haiy ..ghar say to kuch na layay;
O Allah everything that we have is from Thee, we brought
nothing from our own home…
Gratitude to Allah is only possible when man adopts humility and when his
heart is imbued with the recognition of the immense Grace and Bounty of
Allah…when he is in love with Allah ..
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Then, when you love someone or something its all you can do to try not to
think about the person or thing you love.
How many times have we heard the pop-sensations and rap artists rake in
the dough piping on about how the subject of their songs adores her, nay
worships her..it amazes me then that when we talk about God how
suddenly people are all confused about what worship really means and why
it is so essential a duty of a believer…
I rile at the notion that when it comes to dutifully, obediently, humbly,
respectfully, meekly even, handing over exorbitant amounts of money, to
the creators of small worthless things..I say this in the larger, grander
scheme of things, where water in the oceans and the air and all the other
immensely valuable things we take for granted and never pay anyone
anything for having the use of…or even thank anyone for the existence
of……photosynthesis for example…sunlight, the roof we call the atmosphere
which protects us daily from all manner of debris that would otherwise
have made this spaceship called earth uninhabitable…night so we can rest
and day so we can go and work…the nails on out finger tips and toes…
I rile at the notion that when it comes to dutifully, obediently, humbly,
respectfully, meekly even, handing over exorbitant amounts of money, to
the creators of small worthless things..we pay homage literally and submit
totally and worshipfully, adoringly even…so much so that we type as
required a dot where a dot is demanded and a back slash where a back slash
is required….
And we submit so thankfully, gratefully…
Why?
Have you ever asked? Or wondered?
The answer is for our own good…there are plenty of inventors who invent
all kinds of things but no one cares for their inventions so they find no one
willing to pay them homage and obey them and do as they demand..
Remembrance of Allah is just another term for adoration, love and worship
of Allah..for rendering thanks and becoming thereby the grateful servants
of our Creator and Maker and Fashioner and Evolver and Developer and
Sustainer and Provider…and Guide…and Maintainer..
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We do this and are commanded to do this because it is the only way and the
best way for us to achieve the objective of our creation…
51:57 ]
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الجِْنَّ وَالْاِنْسَ اِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوْنِ ]
And I have not created the Jinn and the men but that they may
worship Me.
And since the best flourishing is through serving the purpose for which a
thing or being is made, there can be no better use of our time and abilities
than to be occupied in the remembrance of Allah with a total and complete
sense of gratefulness…
ٕنْ كَفَرْتُمْ اِنَّ عَذَابِىْ لشَدِيْدٌ ٕنْ شَكَرْتُمْ لَاَزِيْدَنَّكُ م وَل َِ
14:8 ] وَاِذْ تَاَذَّنَ رَبُّكُمْ ل َِ ]
And remember also the time when your Lord declared, ‘If you
are grateful, I will, surely, bestow more favors on you; but if
you are ungrateful, then know that My punishment is severe
indeed.’
People have a hard time understanding in today’s environment this
PURPOSE OF OUR CREATION that we always cite…
51:57 ]
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الجِْنَّ وَ الْاِنْسَ اِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوْنِ ]
And I have not created the Jinn and the men but that they may
worship Me.
They cannot relate to it…
I do not think it is because the statement is too deep or too unfathomable or
difficult to understand ..it is because they do not have the time for it..they
do not consider it worthy, meriting their attention and thought..
This is what Allah says in the Holy Quran:
Sura Kahf
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ُنُهُمْ فِىْ غِطَآءٍ عَنْ ذِكْرِىْ وَکَانُوْا لَا يَسْتَطِيْعُوْنَ سَمْعًا
18:102 ]ۨ الذَِّيْنَ کَانَتْ اَعْ ]
Whose eyes were under a veil so the thought never occurred to
them even of My Remembrance, and they could not even hear.
The meaning is much better captured in the Urdu and I have tried to give
this meaning here..
This is why the Holy Prophet (sa) had told us to recite these verses in these
latter days..
18:103 ]
اَفَحَسِبَ الذَِّيْنَ كَفَرُوْۤا اَنْ يَّتَّخِذُوْا عِبَادِىْ مِنْ دُوْنِى اَْۤوْلِيَآء اِنَّا اَعْتَدْنَا جَهَنَّمَ ]
لِلْكٰفِرِيْنَ نُزُلا
protectors instead of Me? Surely, We have prepared Hell as an
entertainment for the disbelievers.
Do the disbelievers think that they can take My servants as
Allah is accusing the people of forgetting Him ..and being preoccupied with
the material things and their creators and makers and worshipping them..
ّئُكُمْ بِالْاَخْسَرِيْنَ اَعْمَالاؕ
18:104 ] قُ لْ هَلْ نُنَ ِ ]
Say, ‘Shall We tell you of those who are the greatest losers in
respect of their works? —
18:105 ]
ال ذَِّيْنَ ضَلَّ سَعْيُهُمْ فِىْ الحْيَٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُوْنَ اََُّمْ يُحْسِنُوْنَ صُنْعًا ]
‘Those whose labor is all lost in search after things pertaining
to the life of this world, and they think that they are doing good
works.’
هٖ فَحَبِطَتْ اَعْمَالهُ مْ فَلَا نُقِيْمُ لهَُمْ يَوْمَ ٕۤكَ الذَِّيْنَ كَفَرُوْا بِاٰيٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ وَلِقَآ ِٕ
18:106 ] اُول ِٰ ]
القِْيٰمَةِ وَزْنً ا
Those are they who disbelieve in the Signs of their Lord and in
the meeting with Him. So their works are vain, and on the Day
of Resurrection We shall give them no weight.
هُزُوًا
18:107 ] ذٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُ مْ جَهَنَّمُ بِمَا كَفَرُوْا وَاتَّخَذُوْۤا اٰيٰتِىْ وَرُسُ ِْ ]
That is their reward — Hell; because they disbelieved, and made
a jest of My Signs and My Messengers.
Surely, those who believe and do good deeds, will have Gardens
of Paradise for an abode,
18:109 ]
خٰلِدِيْنَ فِيْهَا لَا يَبْغُوْنَ عَنْهَا حِوَ لا ]
Wherein they will abide; they will not desire any change
therefrom.
نَا
18:110 ] قُل لوَّْ کَانَ البَْحْرُ مِدَادًا لِّکَلِمٰتِ رَبِّىْ لَنَفِدَ البَْحْرُ قَبْلَ اَنْ تَنْفَدَ کَلِمٰتُ رَبِّىْ وَلوَْ جِ ]
بِمِثْلِهٖ مَدَدًا
Say, ‘If the ocean became ink for the words of my Lord, surely,
the ocean would be exhausted before the words of my Lord
came to an end, even though We brought the like thereof as
further help.’
اِلَىَّ اَنَّمَا اِلهُٰكُمْ اِلٰهٌ وَّاحِدٌ فَمَنْ کَانَ يَرْجُوْالِقَآءَ رَبِّهٖ
18:111 ] قُلْ اِنَّمَا اَنَا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوْ ٰٓ ]
فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلا صًَالِحًاوَّلَايُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهٖ اَحَدً ا
Say, ‘I am only a man like yourselves; but I have received the
revelation that your God is only One God. So let him who hopes
to meet his Lord do good deeds, and let him join no one in the
worship of his Lord.’
See how aptly the subject is described and how accurately it depicts the state of
affairs…and if I had to trace the one fault …giving rise to all this behavior I would
say..ingratitude born of arrogance ..
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AS I said when you love someone or something its all you can do to try and not
remember them..
And how wonderful the Holy Quran is ..
How perfect it is..
Everything begins with love and that is what the definition of true worship is..and
it comes from true gratitude ..this is why in the very beginning of the Holy Quran
when in Sura Fatihah..which is divided equally between God and Man, where the
portion of Man begins it begins with iyyaka nabodo..THEE ALONE DO WE
WORSHIP..
That is why when the Holy Quran talks about telling man what He ought to start
doing it starts by saying to human beings:
2:22 ]
يٰٓاَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اعْبُدُوْا رَبَّكُمُ الذَِّىْ خَلَقَكُمْ وَالذَِّيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُوْنَۙ ]
[2:22]
who were before you, that you may become righteous;
O ye men, worship your Lord Who created you and those
you, brought you into being so perfectly as to have arranged for you everything..
And all those who cam before so that you may attain to the righteousness..
At many places in the Holy Quran Allah explains ..that gratitude is so essential..
O ye people worship your Lord, who develops you stage by stage, Who created
23:79 ]
وَهُوَ الذَِّىْۤ اَنْشَا لََكُمُ السَّمْعَ وَالْاَبْصَارَ وَالْاَفِْٕدَة قَلِيْلا مًَّا تَشْكُرُوْنَ ]
[23:79] And He it is Who has created for you ears, and eyes, and
hearts; but little thanks do you give.
The people think the greatest purpose of their ears and eyes and hearts is to hear
see and pump blood…like the animals and like the inanimate devices that people
have invented…that can do what our ears eyes and hearts do…
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They just fail to see that none of what we have been blessed with has a far greater
purpose..that of recognizing the Creator and…
Again we read:
16:79 ]
وَاﻟّٰﻠﻪُ اَخْرَجَكُمْ مِّنْۢ بُطُوْنِ اُمَّهٰتِكُمْ لَا تَعْل مُوْنَ شَيًْٴاۙ وَّ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ السَّمْعَ ]
وَالْاَبْصٰرَ وَالْاَفِْٕدَة لعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُوْ ن
And Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers
while you knew nothing, and gave you ears and eyes and
hearts, that you might be grateful.
The faculties of hearing, seeing and understanding have been mentioned in the
order in which they help man acquire knowledge. First of all a newborn child
makes use of the power of hearing. The faculty of seeing develops later and that of
understanding is the last to mature.
67:24 ]
قُلْ هُوَ الذَِّىْۤ اَنْشَاَكُمْ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ السَّمْعَ وَالْاَبْصَارَ وَ الْاَفِْٕدَةَ قَلِيْلا مًَّ ا تَشْكُرُوْنَ ]
Say, ‘He it is Who brought you into being, and made for you
ears and eyes and hearts; but little thanks do you give.’
Then to remind us how fragile and in need of God we are:
67:31 ]
قُلْ اَرَءَيْتُمْ اِنْ اَصْبَحَ مَآؤُكُمْ غَوْرًا فَمَنْ يَّاْتِيْكُمْ بِمَآءٍ مَّعِ ين ]
Say, ‘Tell me, if all your water were to disappear in the earth,
who then will bring you clear flowing water?’
and then comes the part that why we have to do it…because we need HIS HELP
IN EVERYTHING..
So, in summary let me end by saying that being constantly occupied in Zikr-e-
Ilahi, in the remembrance of Allah is the best way to render true gratitude to Allah
for His innumerable bounties.
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God is Ghani, He is Self-Sufficient and Independent – in no need of us
remembering Him and quite unharmed by our ignoring Him if we should so
choose…indeed the Holy Quran says:
You are the beggars and in need He is Ghani..
35:16 ]
يٰاَۤيُّهَا النَّاسُ اَنْتُمُ الفُْقَرَآءُ اِلَى اﻟّٰﻠﻪِۚ وَاﻟّٰﻠﻪُ هُوَ الغَْنِىُّ الحْمَِيْدُ ]
O ye men, it is you that stand in need of Allah, but Allah is He
Who is Self-Sufficent, the Praiseworthy.
Look, how fantastically self-consistent Islam is..and the teachings of the Holy
Quran are..
We all know that when a thing is fulfilling the purpose of its creation - it is then
that the thing finds itself in total comfort and at ease and in peace..
Expert car mechanics can listen to the hum of a car and tell exactly when it is
perfectly tuned…I was watching a TV program once about the Hoover Dam..it has
huge turbines that generate enormous amounts of hydroelectricity….and the
engineer was illustrating how they determine if they have everything working
perfectly….it was when a penny balanced on its edge would simply stand on the
housing of the turbines without falling..that they were sure that the things were
perfectly balanced and tuned and what not..
So when human beings are fulfilling the object of their creation ..worship of
God…being employed in His constant remembrance no matter what they may be
doing…being all the time aware of Him and being ever mindful of Him…what
state should we expect them to be in..the state of peace..and contentment..and
pleasure..ecstasy and look how wonderfully the Holy Quran declares in Sura Al-
Raad (13:29):
ٕنُّ القُْلُوْبُؕ ٕنُّ قُلُوْبُهُمْ بِذِكْرِ ا ﻟﻠﻪ اَلَا بِذِكْرِ اﻟّٰﻠﻪِتَطْمَ ِ
13:29 ] الذَِّيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَتَطْمَ ِ ]
‘Those who believe, and whose hearts find comfort in the remembrance of Allah.
Aye! it is in the remembrance of Allah that hearts can find comfort;
Our last word is: All praise belongs to Allah lord of all the worlds!
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