ADHIKR

The group of believers from Prophet Adam to the Day of Judgment mentioned in verses 5: 56 and 58: 22 whether they are alone or together say when they are praying: ‘We are living only for You, and for that, at any situation, we seek only Your help’. Though all mankind and Jinns were deputed to the Earth to live as the Lord’s representatives, only the believers are ready to bear that. All others are bearing Satan’s representation and are included in Satan’s party as mentioned in verse 58: 19. Verses 51: 56-57 say: I have never created Jinns and men except that they have to serve Me alone; I don’t want any sustenance from them nor I need them to feed Me. Verse 67: 2 says: He is the One Who created the death and the life in order to trial who among you is the best in deeds; the Lord is the Exalted, the Forgiving. Read together 11: 7 and 18: 7.

‘Ihsan’: - Means existing in the consciousness that even if you do not see the Lord, the Lord is seeing you. Whoever exists so, he is the Muhsin. Today one can become Muhsin only by testifying the Best Book Husna mentioned about in 20 verses such as 10: 26; 41: 35; 92: 6, 9 which is Adhikr. That means to live seeing Lord Allah from the Book Husna’.

As per verses 38: 82- 83 the Satan said to the Lord: Then by Your power, I will make all of them aimless astray except Your servants among them who live only for You. This conversation between the Lord and Satan is mentioned in verses 4: 117-120; 7: 12-18; 15: 39-43, 17: 62-65, etc. Then as told in verses 38: 84-85 Lord said: Such is the truth, and the truth I do say, certainly I will fill the Hell with you and any of them who follow you. This fact is also mentioned in verses 11: 118-119; 32: 13 and 46: 18. Thus one who approves the Lord as the Perfect and the Independent of anything, while all creatures are depending upon Him, he is the sincere innocent servant of the Lord. Such a believer is 1 among each and every 1000 from mankind as explained in verse 4: 118. 

The believer lives here as the vicegerent of the Impartial Lord helping the Lord by propagating His Message throughout the world with the intention to keep the Universe in its equilibrium so that Lord Allah will also help him back and brace up him in the Straight path as told in verses 22: 40; 47: 7 and 61: 14. As told in verses 9: 67; 59: 19 and 32: 18 the one who is living by hiding and rejecting Adhikr (the Balance and Trust) after receiving is the aimless transgressor. Whoever fears and obeys anyone or anything other than Lord Allah, he is disobeying Lord Allah and is serving the Satan. Through verse 3: 102 by calling the believers Lord Allah says: You should keep the Lord in hearts with the Truth, and you shouldn’t die except in peace submitting all to Him. Here mentioned Truth is Adhikr mentioned about in 256 places such as 10: 108; 39: 41, 69, 75 which is the Safeguard against all disasters, calamities, and Hell. Only with It one can keep ‘Lord- the Safeguard- in his heart. 

Verse 40: 60 says: Your Lord has said: You appeal to Me, I shall respond to you, whoever is too arrogant to serve Me, he will enter the Hell abjectly. Verses 25: 17-18 say: On the Day of Judgment the Lord will summon them along with whatever they had been worshiping instead of Him and will ask: Are you the ones who led these servants of Me astray, or did they stray away from themselves? Then the saint men will reply: Glory be to You! We could never take on any patrons besides You! However, You let them and their forefathers enjoy things until they forgot Adhikr and they became worthless people. It is told in verse 48: 12 that the hypocrites are indeed, worthless people. As told in verse 14: 30 the believer is commanded to tell such worthless people: You enjoy here a little, indeed, your return is to the Fire. Through verse 39: 8 the believer is commanded to tell such a Kafir: You enjoy here a little with your disbelief, indeed, you are the inmate of the Fire. Verse 10: 18 says: Instead of the Lord they serve what neither harms nor benefits them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Lord Allah. You ask them: Are you informing the Lord about something in Heaven and on Earth which He doesn’t know? Glory be to the Highest; He is beyond whatever they are associating”. And verses 10: 28-29 say: On the Day, We will summon them all together, then We will tell those who had associated: Stay where you are and your associates! We will sort them out; their associates will say: You weren’t serving us, the Lord is sufficient as a witness between us and you; we were heedless about your serving to us. In verses 16: 86-87 it is told: When those who have associated (others with the Lord) see their associates, they will say: Our Lord, these are our ‘associates’ whom we appealed to instead of You. They will toss the statement back at them: Indeed, you are lying. They will proffer their surrender to the Lord on that Day, while anything they were forging will leave them in the lurch. Read together 4: 172, 18: 110; 41: 37-38.

Ilah (Deity): - Verse 21: 25 says: We did not send any Messenger before you unless We inspired him with the fact ‘there is no Deity except Me, then you all worship Me alone’. Here, worship is the recognition of Lord Allah as the only Deity. Read together 21: 92. Verse 16: 2 says: He sends down the Angels with the Spirit of His command on any of His servants He wishes in order to warn mankind that there is no Deity except Me; so you heed Me. And it is told in verse 16: 36 as ‘We have dispatched a Messenger to every community saying: you serve the Lord alone and abstain the arrogant ones”. Deity means, the One to whom can seek refuge and help, upon whom can entrust, only whom one can be afraid of, and in front of Whom has to reply about life. Whoever calls anyone as Deity other than the Lord or whoever lives to convince others is serving Satan. The ‘arrogant one’ means any satanic force, person or thing which diverts a person from the Straightpath. Read together 2: 256-257. Verse 16: 51 says: Do not adopt two deities, there exists only one Deity if you are afraid of Me alone. As told in verse 2: 133, when the death approached Prophet Ya’qoob, he called his sons and asked: Whom will you serve after my departure? They all replied: We shall serve your Deity and the Deity of your forefathers Ibrahim, Ismael and Ishaaq; the single Deity alone and we all are submitted to Him. Verse 20: 98 says: Your Deity is Allah alone; there is no Deity except He, He comprehends all things in His knowledge. As told verse 5: 116, when Lord Allah questions Jesus on the Day of Judgment as ‘Had you told the people to adopt you and your mother as two deities instead of Allah?’ Jesus will reply as ‘Glory be to You! I could never say what I had no right to say! If I had told it, You would indeed, have known it; You know what is in my mind while I do not know that in Yours, indeed, You are the only Knower of all the unseen things’. Verse 5: 117 says: I had never told them anything except what You have ordered me, that is you serve only Allah who is my Lord and your Lord; I was a witness for them so long as I remained among them, but when You took me back, You became the Watcher over them and You are a witness for each and everything.

In verses 16: 20-21 it is told: Those whom they invoke instead of the Lord do not create anything, while they are created; dead, lifeless, they don’t even perceive the time when they will be raised up again. Then verse 22 says: Indeed, your Deity is the Deity alone! Those who don’t believe with the Hereafter have hearts that refuse to accept This, while they are arrogant. After saying through verse 35: 13 the one whom you appeal instead of Lord Allah don’t control a wisp, verse 35: 14 says: If you appeal to them, they will not hear your appeal; even if they hear it, they won’t respond to you, on the Day of Judgment they will deny your associating partners with the Lord; no one will inform you such things except the Three Time Knower. Through verse 22: 73 the Lord by calling the mankind invites their attention to a similitude that indeed, those to whom you appeal besides the Creator Lord don’t create even a fly, even if they associate altogether for that, and if a fly snatches anything from them, they can’t even recover that from it. Through verse 29: 41 the Lord says: The example of who take protectors other than the Creator Lord—Allah—is that of the spider’s house, indeed, the feeblest house is that of the spiders’, if they have the Real Knowledge—Adhikr. Read together 59: 21.

The hypocritical leaders by hiding the Three Time Knowledge—Adhikr—are compelling their followers to appeal or call other deities besides the Lord. And both of them are the Mujirims as mentioned in 52 verses in the Lord’s Book such as in 7: 40; 32: 12, 22, etc. and they are serving the Satan as told in verses 36: 59-62. The scene of quarreling, blaming and abusing between the hypocritical leaders and their followers in the Hereafter is explained in verses 2: 166-167. Read together 9: 30-31. Through verse 19: 44 Prophet Ibrahim says by calling his father: Oh my father! You don’t serve the Satan, for Satan is a rebel against the Impartial. And in verse 19: 45: Oh my father! I fear lest some punishment from the Impartial should afflict you, for you are choosing Satan as your protector. 

Through verse 39: 64 the Lord tells Messenger to ask: Oh you the ignorant ones! Are you ordering me to live and serve for other than Lord Allah; and through verses 6: 56 and 40: 66 the Lord orders Messenger to say: Indeed, I am forbidden from worshipping those—other than Lord—whom you are calling upon. In verses 6: 88 and 39: 65 it is told: If anyone associates others in the dominion of Lord Allah, all their deeds will be in vain and they will be the losers. That is why through verse 63: 9 Lord Allah says by calling the believers: Your property or your children shouldn’t prevent you from Adhikr (with which only the remembrance of the Lord is possible), and if anyone does so such are the losers. Through verses 10: 104-106 the Lord orders Messenger to say: If you are in doubt about my ‘Dheen’ (True way of life), I do not live and serve for what you live and serve other than Lord Allah; but I live only for Him Who will take back your soul, and I am commanded to be among the believers. I am also ordered to set my face towards this ‘Dheen’ with Truth in sincerity, and not be among those who associate others with the Lord, and I am also ordered not to call and pray anybody other than the Lord; if I do so I will certainly be among the wrongdoers. Read together 6: 52. 

Through verses 109: 1-6 Lord orders Messenger and the believers to declare: Oh, you Kafirs who hide and reject Adhikr after receiving, I do not serve what you are serving; nor you are serving what I am serving! I will not serve what you have served. You won’t serve what I serve. For you, your way of life, while for me the True way of life. Verses 39: 2-3 say: We have sent the Book down to you with the Truth, so you serve Lord Allah in sincere devotion making whole life to Him. Pure religion belongs to the Lord alone! The one who accepts other patrons instead of Him say: "We don’t serve them except to bring us closer to the Lord; truly the Lord will judge among them about whatever they have been differing over; Lord Allah does not guide who is a disbelieving liar". 

Verses 22: 11-13 say: “There are some men who serve the Lord along the borderline: if any good happens to him he accepts it calmly, while if some trials strike him he turns over on his face in despair. He losses this world as well as the Hereafter, it is an obvious loss. He appeals to besides Lord Allah who does not harm or does not benefit to him, it is the extreme astray; he appeals to someone whose harm is closer than his benefit, what an evil patron and what an evil companion!”

Verse 23: 117 says: Anyone who appeals to any other deity along with Lord Allah, he has no proof for it; his reckoning rests with his Lord, such disbelievers will not succeed. It is told in verse 25: 68 that the beloved servants of the Lord do not appeal to any other deity besides Him, nor kill any soul whom He has forbidden except with the Truth, and will not fornicate. Verse 28: 88 says: Do not appeal any other deity along with the Lord, there is no deity except Him; everything is perishable except His face! Judgment belongs to Him, and to Him you will all be returned. 

Verse 31: 30 says: That is because Lord Allah is the Truth, while anything they appeal to instead of Him is false; the Lord is the Highest, the Great. 

Verse 13: 36 says: Those whom We have given the Book are enjoying with what has been sent down to you; yet among the groups, there are some who disagree part of It. You say: I am only ordered to serve the Lord and not to associate anything with Him; to Him I do call you and towards Him will be my returning.

Addressing the mankind through verse 16: 114 Lord Allah says: You eat lawful and wholesome things from what the Lord has provided for you and be grateful for the Lord’s favors if you are serving Him alone. Verses 36: 74- 75 say: They have adopted other deities instead of Lord Allah so that they may be helped. They are unable to help them; they will stand up as a troop against them when they all are gathered together. Read together 46: 5-6. As told in verse 21: 112 the Messenger said: My Lord will judge with the Truth, and our Lord is the Impartial; upon Him I seek help against whatever you are ascribing. It is only to Allah; the Lord of the worlds the believers ask regarding any matter. Then the Lord--Creator of everything—fulfills it through others. That is the idea of what Lord taught through His Messenger to pray: Oh Lord Allah, there is no one to prevent what You gave, and there is no one to give what You prevented; there is no one to cancel what You judged; and there is no one to amend Your judgment, no arrogance or pride of any egoist will be of any use with You.

So if anyone appeals to any creature besides the Creator even they are Angels, Prophets, saints or anybody else, he is seeking accessibility of Satan. Seeking accessibility from the Lord is only possible by doing good deeds and turning back from doing evil even though there is a chance to do evil thinking that the Lord is observing everything.

 Lord Allah taught through His Messenger: When the servant says “Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all worlds” the Lord will say: My servant has praised Me properly. When the servant says “the Impartial, the Merciful”, the Lord will say: My servant has approved Me properly. When the servant says: Master of the Day of Judgment, the Lord will say: My servant has honored Me properly. When the servant says “we do serve only you and we do seek help only from You”, the Lord will say: That is the covenant between Me and the servant, and so certainly I will give what the servant is asking. Therefore, when we recite this verse, we should pray by the soul as: Include me among the one out of 1000.