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Remembering God Much
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This Quranic verse gives us a criterion to judge the veracity of worship of every individual. If one’s worship qualifies this criterion, then it is worship in the true sense of the word. Those whose worship does not fulfil this criterion, it is merely a spiritless ritual and not true worship.
A believer who worships every day and imbibes
within himself this spirit from his worship is
bound to become a person who is very cautious
in his behaviour.
According to the Quran (72:43), worship (salaat) is like a ticket to Paradise. But this ticket will be granted by God Almighty only to those persons who qualify the criterion given in the above verse of the Quran (29:45).
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One of the commandments of the Quran is given in the chapter Al-Ahzab (The Confederates) in these words:
Believers, remember God with much remembrance. (33:41)
According to this Quranic verse believers must remember God very much, every day and every moment. This is the most important teaching of the Quran, and it is also the highest form of worship. One who does this will be blessed with the greatest reward by God Almighty.
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What is much remembrance of God? It is not in the sense of repetition of some word, but in the sense of thinking. Much remembrance, or zikr-e-kathir, is not a kind of lip service. It is rather a high kind of intellectual activity. Much remembrance is a sign of deep discovery of God.
This chain reaction of zikr will enhance your marefat, that is, realization and discovery of God. It will enhance your relationship with God.