Dhikr Quotes

• Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Cleaning, Feeding

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• Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Taken, Heart, Water

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• Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Heart, Tire, Pure

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• When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Islamic

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• The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Light, People

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• Khashyah (fear) is to fear Allah until His fear comes between you and your sins - that is true khashyah. And Dhikr (remembrance) is to obey Allah so whoever obeys Him has indeed remembered Him, and whoever does not obey Him is not a dhakir - even if he makes abundant tasbih (glorification) and recites much of Qur'an.

  Ibn Sirin

  Remembrance, Doe, Sin

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• Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Water, Heaven, Thrones

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• We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, People

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• Sometimes I was too tired,
  other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening - no
  signs from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn't the point, the Shaykh explained. What
  mattered was the inner connection with God, which builds slowly and only transforms us gradually.
  Another obstacle, however, was that I often found it hard to concentrate during the dhikr.

  Kristiane Backer

  Tired, Lazy, Frustrated

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