ALLAH The Most High says:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you (really) love ALLAH then follow me, ALLAH will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d (S3 V31)<\/p>\n \u201cThese are the limits of ALLAH, so do not transgress them. And whoever transgresses the limits of Allah – it is those who are the wrongdoers.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d (S2 V229)<\/p>\n \u201cThese are the limits [set by] ALLAH, so do not approach them<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d (S2 V187)<\/p>\n \u201cAnd those are the limits [set by] ALLAH. And whoever transgresses the limits of ALLAH has certainly wronged himself.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d (S65 V1)<\/p>\n \u201cAnd whoever disobeys ALLAH and His Messenger and transgresses His limits – He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein, and he will have a humiliating punishmen<\/span><\/strong>t.\u201d (S4 V14)<\/p>\n The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cOn the Day of Judgment some people will come with as many good deeds as the mountains of Touhama, and then when they are presented they are transformed into scattered dus<\/span><\/strong>t.\u201d<\/p>\n They told him: \u201cDescribe them to us because, by ALLAH, we fear being one of them.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n He said (peace and blessings be upon him): \u201cBy ALLAH! Indeed, they were fasting, praying, and exhausting themselves in devotion for part of the night, but when they saw something unlawful, they rushed at it. So ALLAH renders their deeds fruitless and threw them into Hellfire.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the Companions: \u201cdo you know who the bankrupt (muflis) is?<\/span><\/strong>\u201d His Companions replied, \u201cThe bankrupt among us is one who has neither money with him nor any property.<\/span>\u201d The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, \u201cThe real bankrupt of my Ummah would be he who would come on the Day of Resurrection with much of prayer, of fasting, and sadaqah, but he will find himself bankrupt on that Day as he will have exhausted the funds of virtues\u2013because he reviled others, brought calumny against others, unlawfully devoured the wealth of others, shed the blood of others, and beat others; so his virtues would be credited to the account of those who suffered at his hand. If his good deeds fall short to clear the account, their sins would be entered in his account and he would be thrown in the Hellfire.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n ALLAH said: \u201cO mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is that (believer) who has At-Taqwa [i.e. one of the Muttaqun (pious – see V.2:2). Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00bb (Quran S49 v13)<\/p>\n According to Abou Tha\u2019laba Al khouchani Djourthoum ibn Nachir (may ALLAH be pleased with him) the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cALLAH, may He be Exalted, has prescribed duties, do not neglect them! He has established limits, do not go beyond them! He has forbidden certain things, do not transgress them! He kept quiet about certain things through mercy, not by omission, do not try to know them!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The well beloved Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cYou are all the sons of Adam and Adam is of clay, the best of you is who most fears God.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n Our well beloved Sheikh Tidjani (may ALLAH sanctify his precious secret) repeated often: \u201cThe best evocation is remembrance of ALLAH at the time of His commandments and interdicts, thus upholding the rights of ALLAH<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is a passage of a letter of advice to the disciples of our beloved Sheikh Tidjani (may ALLAH sanctify his precious secret) on this subject:<\/p>\n I recommend both to you and to myself that which ALLAH commands and orders us. That is to say, to preserve the sacred limits and to perform the Divine order according to your efforts and your ability, because these days, evidently, the principles of Divine order have collapsed, either entirely or partially, and people passionately love that which harms them in this world.<\/p>\n We can observe that there is no longer any awakening that could allow for hearts to return ALLAH (The Glorified, The Exalted) and that allows respect for the sacred limits of ALLAH, be they orders or proscriptions.<\/p>\n These days, no one has any longer the power to put into practice ALLAH\u2019s instruction in all its aspects, except for he who is adorned with the dress of the knowledge of ALLAH, or he who approaches it.<\/p>\n By these words our beloved Sheikh orientated he who came to him with the claim to divine love: \u201cThe sign of love while traveling on the path is accomplishing those good deeds that satisfy the well beloved (peace and blessings be upon him) complying with his commandments, interdicts, following his words and acts<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n After that, he quoted the following: \u201cYou disobey ALLAH all the while manifesting love for Him. This is an absurdity of surprising contradiction because if your love was true you would obey Him. Is it not true that the lover obeys his beloved?<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n You should know that heedlessness is the root of all disobedience. However, a heart awakened to the presence of its Lord can but obey Him.<\/p>\n Sahl Tustari (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) said: \u201cI know no disobedience more serious than that of disobeying our Lord<\/span>\u201d because it leads to all the others. This is the meaning of the hadith in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cWhen committing fornication, the fornicator is not a believer<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n Said ibn Joubayr (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) has been questioned about reverential fear, he answered: \u201cthe greatest fear is the fear of ALLAH which comes between you and disobedience until it draws you to obedience<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n As for obedience to ALLAH:<\/p>\n Know that he who has obeyed ALLAH, has evoked Him (dhakarahou) and he who has disobeyed Him, has not evoked Him and so he cannot be considered as one who evokes God (dhakir).<\/p>\n Evocation (zikr) of ALLAH:<\/p>\n Evocation of ALLAH is in reality beneficial fear, so know that he who disobeys Him is not a dhakir of ALLAH, despite abundant glorifications (tasbih) or recitations of the Quran.<\/p>\n The most receptive hearts are the best.<\/p>\n ALLAH said: \u201cThose who believe, and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah, Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d (Quran S.13 V28)<\/p>\n According to An-Nou\u2019man ibn Bachir (may ALLAH be pleased with him), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cThat which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful is clear, and between the two of them are doubtful matters, very few people know whether they are lawful or unlawful. Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honour, but he who falls into doubtful matters [eventually] falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who grazes his flock around a reserved area. He is not far from entering. Truly every king has his own domain, and truly Allah\u2019s domain is that which He has prohibited. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh, which, if it is pure, all the body is pure, and which, if it is diseased, all of (the body) is diseased. Truly, it is the heart<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n Abu Hurayra, may ALLAH be pleased with him, said: \u201cThe heart is the king of the limbs, if it is good, the limbs will be good and if it is bad, the limbs will be bad.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n Heart and deeds are linked in such a way that if the heart is good, the other limbs will be good, and they will accomplish acts of obedience to ALLAH refraining from any disobedience.<\/p>\n If the heart is corrupted, the other limbs will also be and they will commit sins and they will be careless. Without doubt, they will neglect accomplishing good deeds and definitely transgress sacred limits and rights of ALLAH.<\/p>\n Ibn \u2018Ata ALLAH (may ALLAH have mercy on him) said: \u201cOne of the signs of the death of the heart is absence of sorrow after neglecting the accomplishment of one of the duties and absence of regret after committing a fault<\/span>\u201d.<\/p>\n The messenger of ALLAH (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cO You who dispose of the hearts, incite our hearts to your obedience.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n Criteria for election are not physical aspects but purity of the heart.<\/p>\n ALLAH the Almighty said: \u201cAnd when you see them, their forms please you<\/span><\/strong>\u201d (Quran S63 V4)<\/p>\n ALLAH the Almighty said: \u201dAnd how many a generation have We destroyed before them who were better in possessions and [outward] appearance?<\/span><\/strong>\u201d (Quran S19 V74)<\/p>\n Abu Hurayra (may ALLAH be please with him) said: \u201cThe Messenger of ALLAH (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cALLAH- may He be exalted- does not look at your body nor your apparence but at your heart and actions<\/span>\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n In another hadith of the well beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), we can read: \u201cGod does not look at your faces but at your hearts<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Heart is the place of divine lights.<\/p>\n The well beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: \u201cWhen ALLAH desires good for his servant, he unlocks his heart.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n According to Ibn Mass\u2018oud (may ALLAH be pleased with him): \u201cWhen light penetrates the heart, it dilates and expands.\u201d We asked: \u201cWhat is the signs that proves this?\u201d The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) answered: \u201cTurning towards the eternal abode, turning away from the abode of delusion with disinterest and preparing for death before it occurs.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n Ibn \u2018Ata ALLAH (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) said: \u00ab\u00a0The lights are the mounts of the hearts and the secrets<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n He also said (may ALLAH have mercy upon him): \u201cThe light is the army of the heart, likewise obscurity is the army of the passionate soul. When ALLAH wants his servant\u2019s triumph, He sends the army of the lights to help him and ward off floods of darkness and troubles<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n Thus, the spoken zikr is a quest, a training of external senses so as to unify all thought on ALLAH until the heart lives perpetually in His Presence.<\/p>\n Ibn \u2018Ata ALLAH (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) said: \u201cDo not forskake the zikr pretexting that while your tongue evokes ALLAH, your heart is not present. Indeed, it would be even worse to completely abandon evocation of ALLAH than evoking Him without the presence of the Heart. ALLAH may raise you up from the \u201cdistracted presence of the evocation\u201d to the \u201cpresence of the awakened evocation\u201d, then to the presence of the evocation with the presence of the heart until the evocation with the presence in the disappearance of everything but the Evoked One.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n Our well beloved Sheikh Tidjani (may ALLAH sanctify his precious secret) said: \u201cThe presence is the spirit of deeds.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n Here is an example of one of the particular disciples of our beloved Sheikh Sheikh Tidjani (may ALLAH sanctify his precious secret), the noble master Mohammad\u00a0Al Ghali Boutalib (may ALLAH be pleased with him).<\/p>\n He was famous for his endeavor to obey ALLAH The Most High. One day, whilst evoking his litanies, oriented and absorbed by the presence, his young daughter fell from the top of the house. He paid no attention to her, his concentration was not affected. He was not disturbed, on the contrary, he remained immobile until the end of the litanies.<\/p>\n It was his habits to take particular care of all his adoration, embellishing them by respecting the rules of recitation. It is said that, after Icha prayer, He would only evoke the Lazim, without adding anything, and he would recite it for about two hours in a state of reverence, paying great attention to the elocution, completely absorbed in the divine presence.<\/p>\n Al-Qushairi, (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) said: \u201cSpoken zikr leads the servant to the constancy of the zikr by the heart. If the servant evokes his Lord both with his tongue and his heart, He attains the perfection of his state.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n Thus, the first step is the spoken evocation, and if this does not allow the lights to open the door of the heart to awaken it, this is because it is imperfect (faulty). A heart that is not receptive to the spoken evocations of ALLAH is in a state of unawareness, and in such a state, it is unable to govern. Indeed the heart can be compared to a king who ordains and all the limbs to soldiers who obey and execute his orders.<\/p>\n Know that the lights descend on those who evoke ALLAH like a rain of salvation. If the heart is receptive, its door will open and the lights will enter in order to fill it, dwell there and deepen its irrigation according to the intensity of the lights. In this way, the heart benefits from divine gifts, knowledge and secrets, etc.<\/p>\n But if the heart is not receptive, so heedleess of ALLAH\u2019s evocation, this is because it is inhabited by other than ALLAH (The Glorified, The Exalted), and in this case the lights cannot penetrate it. In this precise situation, they go back to their place of origin and this is constantly repeated.<\/p>\n Nuri (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) said: \u201cThe first thing that appears in the heart of he for whom ALLAH whishes happiness is a light. Then this light becomes a glow (brightness), then a ray, then a moon and then finally a sun. When the light appears in the heart, the world and all that it contains loses all value for him, when it becomes a moon, man renounces the hereafter and all it contains. When it becomes a sun, he no longer sees the world and its content nor the hereafter and its content: he only knows his Lord. Then his body is light, his heart is light, and his speech is also light \u201cLight upon light, Allah guides to His light whom He wills<\/span><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d(Quran S24 V35) The transformation of the ordinary man into the complete spiritual man is then achieved.<\/p>\n It is said: \u00ab\u00a0The sun sets with the approach of night, the sun of the heart never sets.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n This topic is quite vast, deep and subtle, we cannot discuss it further.<\/p>\n And ALLAH knows best.<\/p>\n ALLAH THE MOST HIGH said\u00a0: \u201cCertainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest<\/strong><\/span>\u201d (Quran S29, V45)<\/p>\n A man asked Salman as Farisi (may ALLAH be pleased with him): \u201cWhat is the best deed?<\/span>\u201d Salman answered him: \u201cHave you not read the verse of the Quran which said: \u201ccertainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest.<\/span>\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n ALLAH THE MOST HIGH said: \u201cSo remember Me; I will remember you<\/strong>\u201d<\/span> (Quran S2, V152)<\/p>\n On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Prophet (PBUH) said: Allah the Almighty said: \u201cI am as My servant thinks I am (1). I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a fathom’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n It is said in one tradition reporting that ALLAH said in one of his revealed scriptures: \u201cFor he who remembers Me and does not forget me, I will activate his heart to love me so that when he speaks, he speaks for Me and when he remains silent, he does it for Me<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Verses of the Holy Quran and prophetic hadith about merits of evocation are so numerous that it is impossible to count) or enumerate them.<\/p>\n We can talk about \u201cEvocation of ALLAH (zikr)\u201d when a person gets rid of heedlessness and oblivion, the heart being in constant presence of the Truth<\/span>.<\/p>\n May ALLAH have mercy upon Yahiya ibn Mou\u2019adh because of what he said: \u201cZikr is greater than Paradise because zikr is the part that goes to ALLAH and Paradise is the part that goes to the servant, and because ALLAH\u2019s approval is within the zikr and the servant\u2019s satisfaction is within Paradise.<\/p>\n Abou Bakr Al-Wassiti was asked: \u201cDo you want some food<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n He answered: \u00ab\u00a0Yes<\/span>. \u00bb<\/p>\n He was asked: \u00ab\u00a0Which kind?<\/span>\u00bb<\/p>\n He said: \u00ab\u00a0A mouthful of evocation (zikr) of ALLAH, with the purity of certainty, at the table of spiritual knowledge, using the fingers of good opinion of ALLAH, on the plate of contentment of ALLAH the Glorified<\/span>.\u00bb<\/p>\n It is said that ALLAH, may He be Exalted, said to His friend Ibrahim (peace be upon him): \u201cDo you know why I have chosen you as a friend\u00a0?\u201d Ibrahim (peace be upon him) answered:\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0No my Lord.\u00a0\u00bb ALLAH said: \u201cBecause your heart is never unaware of Me, and whatever the situation, I notice that you never forget Me.\u201d Ibrahim said: \u201cLord! If you had not ordained us to evoke you, who would dare to evoke you out of respect and reverence, glory be to You!\u201d<\/p>\n These words of Musa (peace be upon him) have been narrated: \u00ab\u00a0O Lord! How could I recognise who you love and who you do not\u00a0? ALLAH, may He be Exalted, answered: \u201cO Moussa! When I love a servant, I give him two signs\u201d Musa (peace be upon him) said: \u201cO Lord, what are they\u00a0?\u201d ALLAH, may He be Exalted, replied: \u201cI inspire in him My evocation (zikr) so that I evoke him in the celestial kingdom and I protect him from forbidden things so that I do not visit My chastisement and My wrath upon him.\u201d<\/p>\n Jesus, son of Mary, (peace be upon him) said: \u201cContent (fortunate) is he who has evoked ALLAH and has solely evoked ALLAH, content is he who fears ALLAH and fears no one but ALLAH.\u201d<\/p>\n Cheikh Ahmed Rifa\u2019I (may ALLAH have mercy upon him) said: \u201cMake evocation of ALLAH the Qibla of your preoccupation and an illumination for the oratory of your thought, and know that the reality of the comfort that derives from the evocation of the Beloved, is forgetting all that is not Him. Indeed who he absorbed in the evocation of ALLAH, the Exalted, no longer evokes any other. He is astonished before the marvels of His Creation. His entity melts before the beauty of His Benevolence and he is absorbed by the oceans of the evocation of His Generosity<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is some advise, and what a good example, from he who said, may ALLAH have mercy upon him: \u201cMake your good relationship with ALLAH the Most High the same as the one that you would have with your servant whose conduct would satisfy you. Thus your mind would be at ease because you would not find in him neither disturbance nor contrariness nor anger. So what you do not wish your servant to do to you and do not approve for yourself, do not do and do not approve for ALLAH the Very High, because He is your true Master, and know that, He also, does not approve nor accept it for Himself.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n During a religious celebration, Imam Ali (may ALLAH be pleased with him) said: \u201cThis day is a day of celebration for he whose fast has been accepted by ALLAH and accomplishment of all his prayers has been rewarded. Everyday ALLAH is not disobeyed is a celebration<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n Obedience represents the means of access (wassila) to the knowledge (marifa) which is, for he who has attained it, the most perfect act of obedience.<\/p>\n “My God! To You be praise and to You be Thanksgiving as much as Your Whole Knowledge knows about Your Attributes and Your Names and Your Praises by which You praise Yourself in Your Own Word, and by which each of your creatures praises You, with all the expressions of praise by which You mention Yourself, and by which all Your creatures mention You and to the extent of what Your Knowledge embraces and for all the blessings upon us that Your Knowledge encompasses.”<\/p>\n Infinite praise and thanksgiving be to ALLAH The Most High Who never ceases to shower His blessings on us through the special Mercy and blessing of our beloved Prophet Muhamad (pbh), the secret of existence, the seal and uncontested master of all the prophets, and the imam of the messengers, and of our perfect teacher, the universal irrigator, the seal and lordly pole of all the saints, at the privileged and unique station, Seyyidina Ahmed Tidjani (may ALLAH sanctify his precious secret).<\/p>\n The poor servant in need of ALLAH, the Most High, <\/strong> Zawiya Tidjaniya El Kubra of Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALLAH The Most High says: \u201cIf you (really) love ALLAH then follow me, ALLAH will love you and forgive you your sins. 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Mohammad al Mansour al Mohiedine Tidjani.<\/strong><\/p>\n