Real happiness and peace can be found in submitting to the commands of the Creator and the Sustainer of this world. Allah has said in the Quran:
اَلَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَتَطْمَٮِٕنُّ قُلُوْبُهُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللّٰهِ ؕ اَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللّٰهِ تَطْمَٮِٕنُّ الْقُلُوْبُ ؕ
“Truly, in remembering Allah do hearts find rest.” (Quran, 13:28)
On the other hand, the one who turns away from the Quran will have a life of hardship in this world. Allah has also said:
وَمَنْ اَعْرَضَ عَنْ ذِكْرِىْ فَاِنَّ لَـهٗ مَعِيْشَةً ضَنْكًا وَّنَحْشُرُهٗ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِ اَعْمٰى
“But whoever turns away from the Quran, he will have a hard life, and We will raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment.” (Quran, 20:124)
Allah declares,
فَاذْكُرُوْنِىْٓ اَذْكُرْكُمْ وَاشْکُرُوْا لِىْ وَلَا تَكْفُرُوْنِ
“So remember Me, I will remember you. And be grateful to Me and do not be ungrateful.” (Surat al-Baqara: 152)
Self-development is the only means of communication with Allah. The bond of love of the Creator with the servant is strengthened more and more in the remembrance of Allah. In the words of the Holy Qur’an, “He guides those who turn to Him, those who believe, and those whose hearts are at peace in the remembrance of God. Know that the remembrance of God is the peace of mind.”
Allah has said,
وَاذْكُرْ رَّبَّكَ فِىْ نَفْسِكَ تَضَرُّعًا وَّخِيْفَةً وَّدُوْنَ الْجَـهْرِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْاٰصَالِ وَلَا تَكُنْ مِّنَ الْغٰفِلِيْنَ
“Remember your Lord with a humble and fearful heart in a low voice, morning and evening, and you will not be indifferent.” (Surah Al-A’raf: 205)
The one who is truly wise and intelligent is the one who meditates on Allah while standing or sitting, while lying down, and thinks and researches about all the creations of the heavens and the earth. Satan can never distract them from their prayers, fasting, and good deeds.
Once a Companion prayed, “O Messenger of Allah! Teach me something that I can do properly. ‘He said,’ May your tongue be always fresh with the remembrance of Allah. ‘Hazrat Abu Darda (R.A.) said,’ Whose tongue will be fresh with the remembrance of Allah, They will enter Paradise laughing. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Everything has a rust-cleaning device and the rust-cleaning device of the heart is the remembrance of Allah.”(Bayhaqi)
Zikir bringing peace and spaciousness in heart, creating love for the Creator, opening the door to forgiveness. Protects the fasting person from backbiting, slander, lying, evil deeds and bad words. The heart is alive and fertile because of Zikir. It is narrated in the hadith, “Whoever sits silently and remembers Allah and his tears begin to flow, Allah will give him shelter in the shadow of His mercy.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
Allah said:
وَمَنْ اَعْرَضَ عَنْ ذِكْرِىْ فَاِنَّ لَـهٗ مَعِيْشَةً ضَنْكًا وَّنَحْشُرُهٗ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِ اَعْمٰى
“And whoever turns away from My remembrance, his provision will be straitened, and I will raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection.” ( Surah Ta’ha: 124)
Allah says:
يٰۤاَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤا اِذَا لَقِيْتُمْ فِئَةً فَاثْبُتُوْا وَاذْكُرُوا اللّٰهَ كَثِيْرًا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُوْنَۚ
“Who will remember Allah much, that you may be successful?” (Anfal: 45)
اَلَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَتَطْمَٮِٕنُّ قُلُوْبُهُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللّٰهِ ؕ اَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللّٰهِ تَطْمَٮِٕنُّ الْقُلُوْبُ ؕ
“Those who are guided to Allah are those who believe and whose hearts are at rest in the remembrance of Allah. Know that only the remembrance of Allah calms the heart.” (Surah Raad: 28)
اِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُوْنَ الَّذِيْنَ اِذَا ذُكِرَ اللّٰهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوْبُهُمْ وَاِذَا تُلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ اٰيٰتُهٗ زَادَتْهُمْ اِيْمَانًا وَّعَلٰى رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُوْنَ
“Those who believe are such that when the name of Allah is mentioned before them, their hearts become terrified.” (Surah Anfal: 2)
الَّذِيْنَ اِذَا ذُكِرَ اللّٰهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوْبُهُمْ وَالصّٰبِرِيْنَ عَلٰى مَاۤ اَصَابَهُمْ وَالْمُقِيْمِى الصَّلٰوةِ ۙ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنٰهُمْ يُنْفِقُوْنَ
“Whose hearts tremble with fear when the name of Allah is remembered.” (Hajj: 35)
يٰۤـاَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوا اذْكُرُوْا اللّٰهَ ذِكْرًا كَثِيْرًا
Allah says: “O you who believe! Remember Allah much and glorify Him morning and evening.” (Ahzab: 41).”
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The Shaytaan is sitting in the heart of the son of Adam, whenever he recites the Qur’aan, and whenever the recitation of the Qur’aan is stopped, he plots.” (Musannafe Abi Shaybah: 35919)
Narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (R.A.): “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Allah will place seven people in the shadow of the Throne. … the one who remembers Allah alone and tears flow from his eyes.” (Bukhari, Hadi: 6469)
Narrated from Hazrat Abu Huraira (R.A.), in a hadith in Qudsi, Allah Ta’ala said, “I stay with the servant as long as he remembers me and his lips move because of my remembrance.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith: 1096; Ibn Majah, Hadith: 3692)
Narrated by Abu Hurairah (R.A.) and Abu Sayyid (R.A.), “The Messenger of Allah, (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: When some people remember Allah, the angels surround them, Allah’s mercy covers them and the chakina descends on them, and Allah Ta’ala is before His nearest angels. Mention them.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 600; Shuabul Iman, Hadith: 530)
Hazrat Mu’adh Ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: There is no deed that saves more from the torment than the remembrance of Allah.” (Majmauz Zawaid, Hadith: 1845)
Allah says, “Those who believe and whose hearts find peace through the remembrance of Allah, know that it is through the remembrance of Allah that their hearts find peace.” (Surah Rad: verse 26)
Narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah Radiyallahu Anhu, he said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Allah says: The servant will find me as he thinks of me. I stay with her when she remembers me. If he remembers me in his heart then I also remember him in my heart. And if he remembers me to a people, I remember him to a people better than them. If he comes forward half a hand towards me then I come forward one hand towards him. And if he comes forward with one hand, I come forward with both hands outstretched towards him. If he walks towards me I walk towards him quickly.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
In another hadith narrated from Hazrat Abu Musa Ash’ari (may Allah be pleased with him), he said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “The example of the one who remembers his Lord and the one who does not remember is like that of the living and the dead.” (Bukhari)
Allah has said: “Call on your Lord humbly and secretly. Surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits.” (Surat al-A’raf: 55)
From the verses of Surah A’raf, it is proved that it is better to recite softly. When the sound of takbeer of the Companions in the battle of Khaibar became louder, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “O people, be gentle, call in a humble voice … You are not calling anyone deaf or missing.” (Muslim)
“Hazrat Hasan Basri (Rah.) Said that the earlier scholars used to spend most of their time in remembrance and supplication of Allah; But no one could hear them. However, in the places where the Shari’ah has instructed to recite loudly and loudly, it is better to recite loudly. For example, Azan, Iqamat, recitation of the Qur’an, takbeer of prayers, tashreeq in takbeer and labbaika of Hajj etc. are better to say aloud.”
Narrated by Abu Huraira (R.A.): “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Allah has a group of angels who roam the streets in search of people who are engaged in the remembrance of Allah. When they see people chanting somewhere, one of them calls out to the other, “Come here to do your duty.” Then they all gathered together and covered the people with their wings up to the heavens of the earth. When their Lord (Allah) asks them what My servants are saying, they say, “They are glorifying You, glorifying You, praising You, and proclaiming Your Majesty.” Then he (Allah) asks: Have they seen me? They (angels) said: O our Lord! I swear to you! They didn’t see you. He said, if they see me? They said, “If they had seen you, they would have worshiped you more, described your greatness, and glorified you more and more.” He said what do they want from me? They said: They ask you for Paradise. He asked: Have they seen Paradise? The angels said: No, I swear by your being! O Rob! They did not see it. He asks: What would they do if they saw it? The angels said: They were more expecting Paradise and more anxious for it.”
Allah will then ask: “From what do they seek refuge? The angels said, from hell. He asked: Have they seen Hell? The angels said: By God! They didn’t see it. He asks: What would they do if they saw it (hell)? They said they would have been more scared if they had seen it. Then Allah Ta’ala said, “Bear witness, I have forgiven them.” One of them said, “Such a person does not belong to that group in the jikir mahfil.” He has appeared there for other needs. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): They belong to a Majlis in which no one turns away.” (Bukhari Sharif).
Hadrat Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “I have heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say that the best remembrance is “La-ilaha illallah” and the best supplication is “Al-Hamdulillah.”
“The person who always remembers Allah and remembers Allah is in peace. The source of peace is the heart. Allah Ta’ala says, know that the remembrance of Allah calms the heart.” (Surat al-Ra’d: 27)
“Get rid of Satan’s temptations through jikir. It is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an that those who guard (against evil) remember Allah when Satan plots against them. At that moment, their eyes were opened.” (Surah: Araf, verse: 201).
Darood brings peace in the heart of a believer
Reading Darood is a great way to get God’s mercy, an easy way to gain peace. The perfection of faith depends on the love of the Prophet. But Darood is an always acceptable deed, which Allah accepts as soon as one reads it. Allah Himself recites Darood and Salam to him. It has been said in the Holy Quran,
اِنَّ اللّٰهَ وَمَلٰٓٮِٕكَتَهٗ يُصَلُّوْنَ عَلَى النَّبِىِّ ؕ يٰۤـاَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا صَلُّوْا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوْا تَسْلِيْمًا
“Surely Allah showers mercy on the Prophet and the angels pray. O you who believe, recite to him more and more darood and send more salutations.” (Surat al-Ahzab, verse: 56)
Explaining the above verse, Abul Alia said: “Salatullah, that is, the purpose of showering Allah’s mercy is that Allah Ta’ala praises the Prophet to the angels. And the purpose of ‘Salatul Malaika’ is that the angels pray for mercy for the Prophet.” (Sahih Bukhari: 2/606)
It is obligatory to recite darood to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) when he says and hears his name. However, if you say and hear it repeatedly, it is obligatory to recite the darood for the first time, and it is mustahab for the second time. Just as Darood and Salam are obligatory when uttered orally, so is it obligatory if written in pen. It is obligatory to read darood once in a lifetime. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Let him be humiliated who does not recite the darood when my name is uttered in front of him.” (Mishkat, hadeeth: 928)
Many virtues of reciting Darood have been described in the Qur’an-Hadith. Anas ibn Malik (R.A.) said: “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever recites the darood on me once, Allah will shower him with ten blessings. Forgive his 10 sins. He will increase his rank by ten.” (Sunan Nasa’i, Hadith: 1296)
Punishment of the one who neglects: If one recites the darood on the Prophet (PBUH), one can be entitled to the same dignity. Narrated by Ali (R.A.), “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: The stingy person is the one to whom my name is mentioned, but he does not recite the darood on me.” (Jame Tirmidhi, Hadith: 3547)
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