Now, the most important thing in spirituality is that Zikr and visualisation should be carried out with a particular approach and attitude
which is that it is not part of the religion
however, the more Zikr I practise to empower my souls, the more I visualise the name of God, the stronger my souls will become.
The Importance of Zikr and Visualisation
The more Zikr I practise to empower my souls, the more I visualise the name of God, the stronger my souls will become.
In spirituality, you don't pick and choose specific days for when you want to do Zikr.
This is just a ritual that ritualistic people have made.
In spirituality, you engage in Zikr whenever you have the chance to do it.
For instance, there is something called mesmerism.
To learn mesmerism, you have to light a candle and concentrate on the blue flame in the very centre of the candle.
You have to absorb the blue flame into your eyes.
Without a blink, you keep looking at that flame.
All of the power of the flame is found in the blue circle within the flame.
The flame is blue in the middle which is surrounded by red and then yellow.
So, there are three layers of the flame: blue, red and yellow.
We do not focus on the red and yellow layers of the flame.
These layers are useless for the eyes.
These layers are protection for the blue flame.
We have to concentrate on the blue flame.
We have to concentrate intensively on the blue flame so that its power is absorbed into our eyes.
When it is absorbed into the eyes, after a lot of practise,
then you can look at a tumbler made of glass, like this one, and break it with the power in your eyes.
This is the approach we have adopted when it comes to spirituality.
We have to visualise the Personal Name of God, Allah.
When we begin to see the name of God through visualisation, the divine energy from God's name will enter our hearts.
Visualisation is the initial step and once the visualisation of God's name settles in your heart, it will begin to generate divine energy therein.
The more visualisation and Zikr that you practise the better.
Engaging in loud chanting of Zikr burns away any sins that you commit including the esoteric insects of those sins.
Loud chanting of Zikr keeps satan away.
For example, if your Lower Self is troubling you while you are practising austerity, the Lower Self will call upon its master, Satan.
Satan will help your Lower Self.
But if you start loud chanting of Zikr, the Lower Self will not be able to trouble you and Satan will not be able to come near you.
Now, Zikr alone does not generate as much divine energy as the visualisation of the God's Personal Name.
However, people prefer engaging in Zikr more than visualisation.
Why is that?
Allah Hoo.
Our Lower Self enjoys rhythm.
The Lower Self loves it.
This is why the Lower Self would go for Zikr instead of visualisation.
You would wonder why the Lower Self would opt for Zikr.
Yes, the Lower Self knows that if it cannot force you to commit sins, it will make you do the lesser of two good deeds.
In spirituality, the most important thing is the visualisation.
The visualisation of God's Personal Name.
During Zikr, when you chant God's name
'Allah Hoo'
You will only enjoy it when you are visualising God's name at the same time.
If your mind is occupied with something else while you are practising Zikr, there is no point in this.
It must be with the visualisation.
'Allah Hoo'
And when you are practising loud chanting,
it's not like you have to scream at the top of your lungs
because doing that will make you out of breath very quickly
and then you will not even be able to speak. So, there is no point in that.
You must remember that God's name has to gently collide with your heartbeats at least 101 times
that is when the divine energy will begin to generate.
If two people are engaging in Zikr and they say God's name 51 times each, it will equal to 102 repetitions of God's name.
And if there are three individuals, then each has to repeat God's name 34 times.
34 times by each individual would make 101.
If there are four individuals then only 25.
Just after 25 repetitions, divine energy will begin to be produced.
Four individuals sit and engage in a Zikr circle, as soon as they reach the 25-mark, the divine energy will start being generated.
And if 10 individuals are practiisng Zikr, when they repeat God's name 10 times, it will start to produce divine light.
If there are 20 individuals, they only have to repeat God's name five times and it will begin to generate divine energy.
And if there are 101 individuals, as soon as they say God's name once, it will generate divine energy immediately.
If one person does it, it will take 101 repetitions of God's name for the divine energy to start to generate.
But if there are 101 indivudals practiisng Zikr, it will just take one repetition of God's name.
What was the reason behind this?
If there are 101 repititions of God's name, one individual would have to repeat God's name 101 times for divine energy.
However, the voices of the 101 individuals will collide with each other immediately.
This is why the Prophet decreed congregational prayrs.
If 101 individuals sit quietly, they will not generate any divine energy, right?
Similarly, when you go to offer Salat in the mosques, since nobody's hearts are awakened and enlightened, it is useless.
There is no point in offering congregational prayers.
You feel the spiritual ecstasy when the divine energy begins to generate.
That spiritual ectasy is what burns away the sins and purifies the Lower Self.