Allaah (
Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala) says:
{Therefore remember Me, I will remember you and be
grateful to Me, and never be ungrateful to me}, [Surah al-Baqarah, Aayah
152]
{O you who believe! Remember Allaah with much
remembrance}, [Surah al-Ahzaab, Aayah 41]
{And bring your Lord to remembrance in your [very] soul,
with humility and remember without loudness in words, in the mornings and
evenings; and be not of those who are unheedful}, [Surah al-A'raaf,
Aayah 205]
The Prophet (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:
«The comparison of the one who remembers Allaah and the
one who does not remember Allaah, is like that of the living and the
dead», [al-Bukhaaree with al-Fat.h 11/208 and Muslim 1/539]
He (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) also said:
«Should I not inform you of the best of deeds, and the
most sanctifying of deeds before your Lord, which does more to raise your
positions [with Him], and are better for you than the disbursement of gold and
money or battle with the enemy?»
They [the companions] said: "Indeed! Inform us."
He (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) then said:
«Remembrance of Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala)»,
[at-Tirmidhee 5/459 and Ibn Maajah 2/1245, see: Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/316 and
Saheeh at-Tirmidhee 3/139]
The Prophet (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) also said:
«Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala) says: "Indeed I am as
My servant presumes Me to be, and I am with him when he remembers Me, so if he
remembers Me to himself I remember him to Myself, and if he remembers Me amongst
a company I remember him amongst a company greater than it, and if he draws near
to Me the span of a hand I draw near to him the span of an arm, and if he draws
near to Me the span of an arm I draw near to him the span of two outstretched
arms, and if he takes a step towards Me I hastily step towards him"»,
[al-Bukhaaree 8/171 and Muslim 4/2061, this specific wording is related by
al-Bukhaaree]
On the authority of 'Abdullaah Ibn Busr (
radhi-yallaahu 'anhu): "A man said
to the Prophet (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam): "O Messenger of Allaah, the
rites of Islaam are much for me, so tell me of something that I might hold fast
to"
He (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:
«Let not your tongue cease from the remembrance of
Allaah», [at-Tirmidhee 5/458 and Ibn Maajah 2/1246, see: Saheeh
at-Tirmidhee 3/139 and Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/317]
The Prophet (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) also said:
«Whoever recites a letter of Allaah's Book has for it,
a merit and ten more like it, not to say that alif, laam, meem are one letter
but rather alif is a letter, laam is a letter and meem is a letter»,
[at-Tirmidhee 5/175, see: Saheeh at-Tirmidhee 3/9 and Saheeh al-Jaami'
as-Sagheer 5/340]
'Uqbah Ibn 'Aamir (
radhi-yallaahu 'anhu) relates that Allaah's Messenger
(
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) came out when we were in as-Suffah and said:
«Are there any of you who would wish to go every day to
Buthaan or al-'Aeeq [i.e., the name of two ditches in al-Madeenah] in the early
morning and return from it with two she-camels without incurring any sin or
severing relations?»
We [the companions] said: "We would indeed love that, O Messenger of
Allaah"
He (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:
«Then you should go to the mosque and acquire some
knowledge, or recite two aayaat from the Book of Allaah, that would be better
for you than two she-camels, and three aayaat are better than three she-camels,
and four aayaat are better than four she-camels, and the same for a like number
of male camels», [Muslim 1/553]
The Prophet (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) also said:
«Whoever takes a seat and fails to remember Allaah, has
incurred upon himself a loss from Allaah, and whoever lies down [relaxes] and
fails to remember Allaah, has incurred upon himself a loss from Allaah»,
[Abu Daawood 4/264 and others, see: Saheeh al-Jaami' 5/342.]
He (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) also said:
«Whenever a people sit in a gathering in which they
fail to remember Allaah and send prayers upon the Prophet they incur a loss upon
themselves and if Allaah willed He would punish them and if He willed He would
forgive them», [at-Tirmidhee, see: Saheeh at-Tirmidhee 3/140. ]
Similarly, he (
sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:
«Whenever a people rise from a gathering in which they
failed to remember Allaah, they rise as if they had arisen from the corpse of an
ass and incurring upon themselves grief», [Abu Daawood 4/264 and Ahmad
2/389, see: Saheeh al-Jaami' 5/176]
