Remembrance of Allah — Page 19
Misunderstandings about Dhikr Misguided Forms of Dhikr Moreover, another reason for the Promised Messiah as reprimand- ing them was that according to the saying, ‘Whatever an ill man adopts becomes an illness’, these sufis and gadd i nash i ns [the cus- todians of shrines] exploited Dhikrullah in such ways and forms that they defaced it altogether. And no trace was left of the man- ner in which Islam had presented it. So what is understood by Dhikrullah nowadays? It is a heart-rending cry raised to a high pitch and shouted out so loudly that the peace of the whole neighbourhood and the worship of all those nearby is disturbed. This is what they call delivering a strike upon the heart—as if the heart, for them, is something into which