Bawa Muhaiyaddeen on Zikr

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"You don't have to sit in one place to do this (the zikr.) You don't have to close your eyes and do this. You don't have to have a special place to do this. While you're walking, while you're sitting, while you're sleeping, while you're eating, while you're drinking, while you're working -That will work automatically. Like how the water ripples and goes on the stream consistently. It doesn't stop; it always keeps on moving." "If you go on saying that amount [43,242 times per day], if you keep on moving your zikr so much, now God glorifies you 400 million million times. He prays to you because He now has to respond to your zikr. So to the sounds of your zikr, He has to respond to that. It's not a sound that has no response. He will respond to every sound of yours. So His sound now comes to you. Your resonance is with Him and His Resonance is with you. That is what you call a reply... Having transcended the four religions...you get to the station of Sufiyyat. And in that station of Sufiyyat, you merge in God and become one. That is what is meant by Sufism. This kind of prayer and worship is what we have to do."

 ~Bawa Muhaiyaddeen,The Third Kalimah CD, tracks 7-9, July 19, 1975. ♥

Zikr and Chechen women making zikr...

Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance (zikr) of Allah: 

for without doubt in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find satisfaction.

(Quran 13:28)

Men who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, 

and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, 

(With the thought): "Our Lord! not for naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to Thee! 

Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire.

                             (Quran 3:191)

But those will prosper who purify themselves,And glorify the Name of their Guardian-Lord, 

and (lift their hearts) in prayer.

(Quran 87:14-15)

Sheikh Kabir Helminski of the Mevlevi Order discusses zikr

The Threshold Society: Mevlevi Order of America
One Through Love

And remember your Protector and Sustainer,
O beloved Muhammad,humbly and with awe.
Use then a gentle voice, the words carried softly on your breath,
to praise Me in the morning and evening.
And do not be negligent in your remembrance.

--Quran al-A'raf 7:205--

Zikrullah...

When My servants ask you about Me, I am always near. 

 I answer their prayers when they pray to Me. 

The people shall respond to Me and believe in Me,  
in order to be guided. 

~-( Quran 2:186 )-~