PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE

Imam Mahdi (AHS) also made perpetual remembrance (zikr-e-dawam) of Allah obligatory on his followers, for Allah says: "When ye have performed the act of worship, remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining." (IV:103).

lmam Razi quoted Hazrat Ibn Abbas as saying: "Remember Allah day and night, on land and sea, in station or in journey, in health and sickness in public or in private. In his Tafseer of the Quranic Verse: "Remembrance of Allah is the highest." (XXIX: 45); he says that two points are to be noted here. First, that Allah remembers you and His remembering you is of a higher degree than your remembering Him; and secondly, remembrance of Allah is the most exalted among all other prayers.

Further Allah says: "And do thou (O reader) bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy (very) soul, with humility and in reverence. Without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings, and be not thou of those who are unheedful." (VII: 205).

In his tafseer, Imam Razi says that "there are no limited timings for the remembrance of Allah, it is obligatory at all times. Remembering Allah is heart (Qalbin Arabic also means medulla, a part of the brain) must be continuous and perpetual. One should not be neglectful of Allah even for a moment.

Allah says: "O ye who believe, celebrate the praises of Allah, and do this often." (XXXIII:41). In his tafseer, Mua'lim-ut-Tanzeel, Abu Muhammad Al-Husain Bin Masoud says that Allah has set a limit on all obligations He has imposed on the people and there is no obligation without a limit An obligation is waived under certain circumstances when a person is not capable of performing it. But there is no limit for remembrance (zikr) and allowed to breathe without remembrance. The solitary exception is a lunatic. under no circumstances, one is

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