Who Can Practise Zikar-e-Qalb (Invocation of God’s Name in the Heart)?
Imran Ansari from Rajasthan says, 'Assalamu Alaikum.' Walaikum Assalam.
'I am asking a question on behalf of somebody else.'
'The question is: can a common person - or anybody, really - practise Zikar-e-Qalb?'
'Especially if that person is suffering at the hands of a Jinn and it is troubling him greatly?
'And if the answer to the question is no, then can that person practise Zikar-e-Qalb once he becomes a disciple of a Spiritual Guide?'
'If the Spiritual Guide forbids that disciple and other disciples like him from practising Zikar-e-Qalb, what is the reason behind it?'
'Whereas the Spiritual Guide has given permission to practise Zikar-e-Qalb to many of his disciples.'
Zikar is the first obligation in Islam.
Zikar Allah is the first obligation.
According to a Prophetic Tradition, 'Zikar Allah is the foremost of all obligations.'
Zikar Allah is the first and foremost of all obligations.
And there are two types of obligations:
permanent obligations and temporary obligations.
A Prophetic Tradition states, 'Whosoever fails to fulfil his permanent obligations, God does not accept any temporary obligations he may have fulfilled.'
The first Pillar of Islam is Zikar.
The Kalima-e-Tayyab is the greatest Zikar - La Ilaha Ilallah Muhammad Rasool Allah (There is no Creator but God, Mohammad is the Messenger of God).
If a Spiritual Guide stops you from practising the first Pillar of Islam, Zikar, then he is not a Spiritual Guide at all.
No?
The first Pillar of Islam is Zikar.
When Salat had not been brought down yet and it was only the first Pillar of Islam in practice,
then all the Companions would do was Zikar.
If you engage in Zikar, you will become pure. If you don't, you will remain impure.
Secondly, what is the point of you going to a Spiritual Guide when he stops you from engage in Zikar?
Why do you have a Spiritual Guide then?
Right?
That's like going to a restaurant, ordering Nihari and then being told to make it yourself in the kitchen.
You would say, 'Then I might as well have stayed home and made it there!'
Without going into the spiritual implications of this matter,
I want to make it clear to you in a very simple way
that Zikar Allah is the first Pillar of Islam.
It is an obligation - and a permanent obligation at that.
If a so-called Spiritual Guide stops you from practising Zikar, then he is not a Spiritual Guide at al. He is a Devil.
Koran 2:152 states, 'Practise my Zikar and I will practise yours.'
One Prophetic Tradition states, 'Whoever engages in Zikar is living whereas whoever doesn't is dead.'
Another Prophetic Tradition says, 'O' My Companions -'
- now this was said after the Conquest of Mecca.
Before the Conquest of Mecca, the Muslims of that era went through a very turbulent phase.
In which the threat of attack from the Infidels of Mecca was always imminent.
There were many issues.
However, once the Conquest of Mecca took place,
when the Prophet arrived in the city of Mecca, victorious,
now, everything settled down.
The Companions of that era had spent so long struggling [against their enemies]
so [even after the Conquest of Mecca], their minds would still be dominated by the thought of Jihad.
They would always be sharpening and maintaining their swords.
They would keep asking Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), 'When will be do Jihad again?'
That was when Prophet Mohammad said, 'Look, we are now progressing from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad.'
'Come, let us progress from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad.'
In other words, leave the Lesser Jihad behind and turn your attention to the Greater Jihad.
The Companions asked the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), 'What is the Greater Jihad?'
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) replied, 'Let me tell you about an act which is even greater in God's eyes than if you were to distribute a mountain of gold for the sake of God.'
'This act is even greater than the Jihad in which you kill the infidels and they kill you.'
The Companions were really, you know, in the state of exclamation.
They were completely taken aback. They were astoundedly surprised.
And they said, 'Oh my gosh! Such an act, such a deed - and it has been hidden all these days?'
'What is it?'
There astonishment was really something to see.
They said, 'O' Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), please tell us what it is.'
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) replied, 'Zikar of God's name.'
The Prophetic Traditions do mention Zikar of God's name, however,
the editors of the Prophetic Traditions cut out what was said next.
The Muslims in Pakistan and India have a huge amount of respect of Ismail Bukhari.
They [value his compilation of the Prophetic Traditions], Bukhari Sharif.
Whereas Imam Bukhari did not include a single Prophetic Tradition narrated by Moula Ali in his book.
Abu Huerra - the Conquest of Mecca occurred in 7 Hijri.
Whereas he became a Muslim in 12 Hijri.
He spent four years in the company of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
And all of the Prophetic Traditions are narrated by him - not a single Prophetic Tradition narrated by Moula Ali is in Muslim Sharif or Bukhari Sharif.
Do you understand?
These Prophetic Traditions were excerpts from an entire discourse by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)
which were sometimes taken from the beginning or the discourse and sometimes from the end.
For example, this Prophetic Tradition:
'There is a means of polishing everything that tarnishes. The polish of the heart is Zikar Allah.’
Whereas the Prophetic Traditions do not mention what was said before this statement.
What was said before it?
Before this, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was saying, 'When somebody sins,'
'the angels sitting on our right and left shoulders who record our good and bad deeds,'
'they record your sins in the Book of Deeds and at the same time, they place a black spot upon your heart.'
They place the black spot on the heart as a punishment. Why?
Because God looks at shining hearts. If your heart is blackened then the punishment will be that God won't look at your heart.
You will fall from God's eyes.
With an abundance of sins, there comes a time when the heart becomes completely dark.
When the heart becomes dark, neither the Koran, Prophetic Traditions nor any advice at all will have any effect on it.
The Companions asked, 'O' Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), when the heart becomes completely black
'and no advice is effective upon it, what do we do?'
In response, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said, 'There is a means of polishing everything that tarnishes. The polish of the heart is Zikar Allah.’
Similarly, when Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) spoke about an act that was greater than the Lesser Jihad
was to engage your Lower Self in Zikar Allah.
When both your heart and Lower Self engage in Zikar Allah this is your Greater Jihad,
The Jihad against the Devil.
This is a Jihad after which you will obtain God.
You obtain rewards for engaging in the Outer Jihad. But the reward for this [inner] Jihad is that you will obtain God.
So this treasure of Zikar-e-Qalb -
- the Spiritual Guide's job is to give you the lesson of Zikar first and foremost.
And it is not verbal Zikar. He grants you Zikar-e-Qalb.
If Jinns or evil spirits or other negative entities trouble you
the reason for this is that you don't have divine energy in you.
When you engage in Zikar and divine energy enters you, the Jinns will run away on their own.
If a Spiritual Guide stops you from Zikar and you are being troubled by Jinns,
then why are you still with him?
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