Remembrance of Allah — Page 46
46 As narrated by Jabir in Tirmidh ī , the best and the foremost way of remembering Allah is that one should attest to the state- ment that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah. There are various merits of other forms of dhikr. Thus, the Holy Prophet s as has said concerning: ْم—ِ ي ِ ِ الْعَظ هللا َ ِ وَبِحَمْدِہ ٖ سُبْحَان هللا َ سُبْحَان [ Sub ha n-All a hi wa bi- h amdih i , Sub ha n-All a h-hil-‘A zi m— ‘Holy is Allah and worthy of all Praise; Holy is Allah, the Great’] that ِ الرَّحْمَن ی سَان ِ ثَقِيْلَتَان ِ فِي الْمِيْزَان ِ حَبِيْبَتَان ِ اِلَ ِّ الل ی َ كَلِمَتَان ِ خَفِيْفَتَان ِ عَل ‘There are two state- ments which are very light on the tongue to say, but when they will be weighed on the Day of Judgement, their weight will be so much that because of them the arm of the scale containing the good deeds will become very heavy. And they are so very dear to the Gracious God’ ( S a hīh al-Bukh ā r ī , Kitāb-ul-Īmāni wan-Nud- hūr, Bāb Idhā Qāla Wallāhi lā Atakallam-ul-Yauma fa S all a au Qara’ au Sabba h a au Kabbara au H amida aur Hallala fa-hua ‘Alā Niyyatihī; Hadith 6682; Sunan at-Tirmidh ī , Kitāb-ud-Da‘wāt, Bāb fī Fa d a’ili Sub h ān-Allāhi wa bi- H amdihī; Hadith 3467). This is also a dhikr of a very high order so much so that once, when the Promised Messiah as got up to offer Tahajjud [early morning supererogatory prayers] during a bout of severe illness and fell down due to fainting and could not offer the prayer, he received a revelation that in such a condition instead of getting up to offer the Tahajjud, he should just recite this while lying down. So this too is a dhikr that possesses immense merit. It is narrated in the sayings of the Holy Prophet s as that he used to recite it very often. The Holy Prophet s as has told us that these two forms of dhikr are superior. There is, however, another dhikr which is highly commendable. Although no hadith has been preserved about it,