seekeroftruth
05-12-2006, 09:31 AM
Besides remembrance (of Allah) itself, another cause of stillness (sakina) is the actual presence of angelic beings and the absence of demonic, brought about by dhikra Llah. In our modern world we tend to shy away from mentioning unseen beings such as angels and demons, but lack of belief in something does not necessitate its nonexistence. Angels are real; they love the remembrance of Allah and will actually seek out places where He is being remembered in or to join in. Though unseen, their presence is felt by the worshipper.
The fundamental reason why remembrance of Allah effects us is simply that the entire body craves Divine remembrance more intensely than anything else. When the heart and its translator, the tongue, join in, harmony occurs. We need the prayers for our sanity and for our protection from the evils of the world. [Prophetic Invocatons]
Breath is a Divine gift, and the tongue is a plane upon which the breezes of the breath flow. To speak we need a tongue, lips and breath. To remember God, we need a heart. We have been given all four and reminded by Allah in every Book of revelation that the reason we are created is to worship Him. Infact, everything in existence is initially created in a state of worship. However, because of their free will, human can forget the reason of their existence.
It is through remembrance the equilibrium is established in the soul. "Is it not by the remembrance of Allah that hearts are stilled?" the Quran metorically asks. When remembering Allah one often feels His presence. While this can be true of remembrance of anyone, the presence of Allah, as well as that of Prophets and Saints, brings a stillness of the heart without comparison. [Prophetic Invocations]
The hardening of the physical heart comes from lack of exercise and from eating animal flesh with fat. Similarly, the spiritual heart is hardened by lack of spiritual exercise and eating the dead flesh of other humans (which is a metaphysical reality of the act of backbiting). The spiritual exercise of the heart is called dhikru'Llah, which simply means remembering Allah. The practice of remembrance is a practice of recollecting another world and another time.
The sleepers of this world when they are finally and forcibly removed from the poppy field of pleasure and forgetfulness, the newly awaken come to realization that they were infact accountable for every God given breath, but they have squandered their entire lives foolishly, or worse still, spent them in malevolent deeds. [Prophetic Invocations]
The hardening of the physical heart comes from lack of exercise and from eating animal flesh with fat. Similarly, the spiritual heart is hardened by lack of spiritual exercise and eating the dead flesh of other humans (which is a metaphysical reality of the act of backbiting). The spiritual exercise of the heart is called dhikru'Llah, which simply means remembering Allah. The practice of remembrance is a practice of recollecting another world and another time.
The sleepers of this world when they are finally and forcibly removed from the poppy field of pleasure and forgetfulness, the newly awaken come to realization that they were infact accountable for every God given breath, but they have squandered their entire lives foolishly, or worse still, spent them in malevolent deeds. [Prophetic Invocations]
The fundamental reason why remembrance of Allah effects us is simply that the entire body craves Divine remembrance more intensely than anything else. When the heart and its translator, the tongue, join in, harmony occurs. We need the prayers for our sanity and for our protection from the evils of the world. [Prophetic Invocatons]
Breath is a Divine gift, and the tongue is a plane upon which the breezes of the breath flow. To speak we need a tongue, lips and breath. To remember God, we need a heart. We have been given all four and reminded by Allah in every Book of revelation that the reason we are created is to worship Him. Infact, everything in existence is initially created in a state of worship. However, because of their free will, human can forget the reason of their existence.
It is through remembrance the equilibrium is established in the soul. "Is it not by the remembrance of Allah that hearts are stilled?" the Quran metorically asks. When remembering Allah one often feels His presence. While this can be true of remembrance of anyone, the presence of Allah, as well as that of Prophets and Saints, brings a stillness of the heart without comparison. [Prophetic Invocations]
The hardening of the physical heart comes from lack of exercise and from eating animal flesh with fat. Similarly, the spiritual heart is hardened by lack of spiritual exercise and eating the dead flesh of other humans (which is a metaphysical reality of the act of backbiting). The spiritual exercise of the heart is called dhikru'Llah, which simply means remembering Allah. The practice of remembrance is a practice of recollecting another world and another time.
The sleepers of this world when they are finally and forcibly removed from the poppy field of pleasure and forgetfulness, the newly awaken come to realization that they were infact accountable for every God given breath, but they have squandered their entire lives foolishly, or worse still, spent them in malevolent deeds. [Prophetic Invocations]
The hardening of the physical heart comes from lack of exercise and from eating animal flesh with fat. Similarly, the spiritual heart is hardened by lack of spiritual exercise and eating the dead flesh of other humans (which is a metaphysical reality of the act of backbiting). The spiritual exercise of the heart is called dhikru'Llah, which simply means remembering Allah. The practice of remembrance is a practice of recollecting another world and another time.
The sleepers of this world when they are finally and forcibly removed from the poppy field of pleasure and forgetfulness, the newly awaken come to realization that they were infact accountable for every God given breath, but they have squandered their entire lives foolishly, or worse still, spent them in malevolent deeds. [Prophetic Invocations]