Is the Invocation of the Heart (Zikar-e-Qalb) Constant?
Ghulam Farid from Rawalpindi asks, 'Assalamu Alaikum.'
'My Zikar-e-Qalb is intermittent.'
'Please pray for me so that it becomes permanent.'
'This is my request.'
'I watch all your speeches. I spend 3-4 hours every day watching them.'
What you said about intermittently and permanently -
- you need to understand this.
'Permanently' does not mean that your heart will be in constant invocation of God's name all the time.
Do you understand?
'Permanently' means that the heart has now started invocation
and it will not permanently stop.
However,
the specific number that God has allotted for the invocation -
- it will fulfil that number and then fall silent.
When it falls silent,
then don't think of it as a gap [in your invocation].
The heart will reach its daily limit for invocation every day and become silent.
Even someone who has a daily allotment of 125 000 for their invocation does not have constant invocation 24/7.
Even they have a few moments where the heart is heedless [of God's invocation].
But they don't count.
Because every beat of their heart touches the Personal Name of God.
So whether such a person's heart is engaged in [traditional] invocation or not, it is busy.
Even if the heart says God's name just once, this is evidence of it being revived.
Now if you want to increase the divine energy in your heart -
- people recite devotional songs for different spiritual personalities like Ghous Pak (Abdul Qadir Jilani).
And then it is said that you should recite the Koran.
And perform auxiliary worship and things. Why?
Because God has set a limit for the invocation that your heart can do.
Your heart cannot exceed it.
Because your heart is not obedient to you, it is obedient to God.
It will only engage in invocation of God's name per the limit set by God.
Now if you want extra divine energy,
then part time, you will have to do something else.
Recite Darood Sharif, recite Qasidas for Ghous Pak.
Or a Qasida for Imam Mehdi.
Whoever you think you can receive divine energy from, you will have to do that extra bit [to receive it].
God has set a limit for the invocation of your heart.
After reaching its limit,
when the allotted number of invocation for your heart is fulfilled,
then your heart will fall silent. It will not engage in invocation 24/7.
But when the heart falls silent after reaching its daily limit, it doesn't mean the Zikar-e-Qalb is not permanent.
Permanent here means that your heart will engage in invocation every day.
Whatever the limit is -
- mostly what happens is that a Zikar-e-Qalbi is busy all day.
And he does not pay attention to the invocation within his heart.
So the heart sort of rests [and does not engage in invocation during that time].
When he goes back home and lies in bed,
he sees that his heart engages in the invocation rapidly.
Because he is not busy in other things.
That is when the heart fulfils its limit.
So the heart engages in the invocation every day when it is revived but God has set a limit for it.
For example, if God has set a daily limit on your heart of 40 000.
That means your heart will engage in the invocation up until it reaches 40 000, then it will fall silent
It reaches the limit of 40 000 and then falls silent, no matter what you do.
Now, I heard that when you offer Salat, the invocation in your heart speeds up.
One day, my heart had already reached its daily quota
so I thought, 'I'll offer Salat to speed up the invocation in my heart.'
But the heart had already reaches its limit so it didn't even increase during Salat.
It had reached its limit so of course it couldn't have been sped up [because it had fallen silent for the day].
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