#Remembrance of God

[sabrgirl]

why dhikr is important

it brings you closer to Allah سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ

the pleasure of Allah is achieved - "the pleasure of Allah is the greatest of all" (9:72)

it comforts the heart - "it is in the remembrance of Allah that hearts can find comfort" (13:29)

when one remembers Allah and is absolutely certain that He has unlimited powers and can and will remove any hardship, the heart feels less anxious.

Allah becomes the Friend of the one who remembers Him - "remember Me, and I will remember you" (2:153)

the heart is strengthened and you develop the power to battle evil and be successful - "O believers! when you face an enemy, stand firm and remember Allah often so you may prosper" (8:46)

the prayer of one who remembers Allah is accepted. surah Fatihah, for eg, is a prayer but it begins with dhikr - 'alhamdulilah' and remembers his attributes, like 'ar-Rahman,' 'ar-Raheem' and then the prayer is made.

your love for Allah will grow as you are constantly thinking about Him and He is inside your heart

it drives Shaytan's whispers out from the heart

it gives you patience through trials as you understand Allah is always there

it removes worry and sadness from one's heart

it provides the chance to enter through the eighth gate of Jannah: 'Baab al-Dhikr' - for the believers who constantly remembered Allah

it is a noor for you on the day of judgement that will keep you steady on the sirat (bridge that guides you to Jannah)

'a man does nothing to rescue himself from Allah's punishment better than remembering Allah' (hadith)

'everything has a polish, and the polish for hearts is the remembrance of God. nothing is more calculated to rescue from God's punishment than remembrance of God' (hadith)

it shows gratitude to Allah - which He loves

you will accept that He has power over everything which will make you trust Him more

your mind will focus continuously on Allah which will motivate you to live your life by the Qur'an and sunnah to please Him more

it creates love of Islam in one's heart

it protects you from harm

the angels surround all four sides of any gathering in which Allah is being remembered and rain down His mercy upon it

it helps you with hardship and trials taken for the sake of Allah

"remembrance of Allah indeed is the greatest virtue" (29:46).

[eyeoftheheart]

Meditation

First things must come first. When you awaken in the morning, meditate. If you don't, the whole world will crowd in to claim you, and you will forget God. At night, meditate before sleep claims you. I am so strongly established in the habit of meditation that even after I lie down to sleep at night, I find I am meditating. I can't sleep in the ordinary way. The habit of being with God comes first.

~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, "Man's Eternal Quest"

[runawaycarouselhorse]

"Thanks be to God for all of the blessings, the presence of which we have grown accustomed to, to the point of forgetting to be grateful for them."

[scripture-pictures]

[ruporas]

comfort

[ID START: Illustration of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun: Maximum. Wolfwood is holding Vash’s head to his chest, his right hand resting gently over his ears and his left hand againtst Vash’s nape. Wolfwood looks at him melancholically as he soothes him. Vash’s eyes are shut, small tears at the corner of his eyes, asleep, and his right hand is holding onto Wolfwood’s arm. Feathered and plant wings are growing out of him, enveloping the both of them like a cocoon, leaving enough space for their heads and arms. The feathered plant wings takes up most of the canvas, colored in dark and muted blues. END]

[harrowedsoup]

Anyway Wake lives in my mind rent free and the fact that she’s the Mary to Gideon’s Jesus and John’s god is just!! So crazy to think about!! I’m not catholic enough to really appreciate it but I LOVE that about her and I wish I saw more people talk about it.

Wake, who had an incredibly messy relationship with two people at once, being cast as the Virgin Mary? Having God’s child only for them to be killed for the good of mankind?? Yet Wake’s hard refusal of anything related to motherhood because Gideon was never supposed to be anything other than a tool?? OG Gideon/Pyrrha being her own twisted version of Joseph????

[runawaycarouselhorse]

Going from the right to the left, starting from the top row.

"I seek Your forgiveness and repent to You."

"I seek God's forgiveness."

"There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God."

"Glorified be God, the Greatest."

[queerprayers]

i want to say first of all that i fully respect a community's/denomination's/culture's right to have closed practices. i am not entitled to other people's traditions, and when i am a guest in a space i understand that everything is not automatically for me. and i know i do not have to understand to respect.

and also! when i go to a catholic church and can't receive communion i want to fall on the floor weeping. what do you mean i can't have him he's right there. sorry my baptism was the wrong kind of baptism. i'm hungry and you want me to become someone else before being fed.

[theriverbeyond]

thinking more about John and.... at the end of HtN when he was interogating Wake, she wanted him to say her name. "i'll be dammed if i pass up the chance to hear you speak the words" and "they're dead words, a human chain reaching back ten thousand years": Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity.

and then she asks him "how did they make you feel?" and of course, John deflects.

but that's Aotearoa's national anthem in te reo Māori. and as we learn in NtN, John is Maori. that's his anthem. how must have that felt, to John? to hear his own anthem claimed by someone descended from the people who left his earth to die?

[hilacopter]

thank god that yom hashoah is mostly an israeli thing and that international holocaust remembrance day is on a different date because otherwise leftist goyim would be INSUFFERABLE with the holocaust inversion right now

[luckkythirt33n]

"Well, yes, and that is why I'm going to have a word with the Almighty, and then the Almighty will fix it."

I asked questions once. I spoke to Her. I wondered and pondered. I used my voice that she gave to me, this mind of mine, the one she cast me out for. Do you not remember? How much trouble can I get into for simply asking a few questions, how much trouble can you get into for asking a few questions. There are no right people, not even you nor even I. Do you not see? Do you not remember?

"That won't happen."

Please tell me you remember.

"You're so clever."

You gave me the same advice once, just tangled up in different words. The warning you gave me amongst the stars. As above so below. I don't want you to fall, not like I did for being so stupid.

"How can somebody as clever as you be so stupid?"

Please don't fall. I am your mirror. I am your words. Please listen to yourself (please listen to me).

[sabrgirl]

the different kinds of dhikr

prayers "serve Me, and observe Prayer for My remembrance" (20:15) - here, Allah Himself says that salat is a form of dhikr. these also include the sunnah and nawafil prayers alongside the fard prayers

recitation of the Holy Qur'an "We ourself have sent down this Reminder, and most surely We will be its Guardian" (15:10) - Allah uses the word 'dhikr' here for the sending down of the Qur'an, which shows that reciting the Qur'an is a form of dhikr too and should be done daily. "And this is a blessed Reminder/dhikr that We have sent down; will you then reject it?" (21:51).

repeatedly making mention of Allah's attributes "And when you have finished the Prayer, remember Allah while standing, and sitting, and lying on your sides" (4:104) - Allah asks us not to just remember him and do dhikr during salat, but all the time too. the different dhikr you can say are: - laa ilaha il Allah (there is no God but Allah) - subhanallah x33, alhamdulillah x33, Allahu Akbar x34 (Holy is Allah, all praise belongs to Allah, Allah is the Greatest) - alhamdulillah (all praise belongs to Allah) - astagfirullah (i seek Allah's forgiveness) - ayatul kursi (2:255) - la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah (there is no power except from Allah) - subhanallahi wa bi-hamdihi, subhanallah hil-Adhim (Holy is Allah and worthy of all Praise; Holy is Allah, the Great)

[eyeoftheheart]

“The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God.”

― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart

Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub. Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart:

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[existentialcrisisetcetera]

did you know that in ancient greece tattoos were typically used as marks of punishment and shame, typically inflicted on criminals and prisoners of war that were allowed to live?

did you know that kratos had deimos' birthmark tattooed onto his own body, when deimos' kidnapping by the gods is something he very clearly feels severe guilt over?

[livingfortheheartofchrist]

“And He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.”

“Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭22‬:‭19-20‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[ibrithir-was-here]

Random Rosemary doodles thrown together, with some cameos by Lu from “Blood of my Blood” and still very much alive Helen from ‘The Great God Pan’ (poor Rosemary Basil just can’t seem to avoid hot blondes and devil coded people )

Then a little doodle of teen Rosemary, and I had do sketch her with those little glasses Basil had in the 2009 movie cuz darn it they’re cute