Hadith 52

(The book) ‘Misbah Al Sharia’ –
‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘One who was a doer of Zikr of Allah-azwj upon the reality, he is obedient, and one who was heedless from it, he is disobedient, and the obedience is a sign of guidance while disobedience is a sign of straying, and their origins are from the Zikr and the heedlessness. Therefore, make your heart a direction (Qiblah) and your tongue should not move except by indication of the heart and in harmony of the intellect and satisfaction of the Eman, for Allah-azwj is a Knower of your secrets and your announcements. And be like the one whose souls is being snatched (by the Angel of death), or like the one pausing in the greatest land (on the Day of Qiyamah), your soul not being bother by what fatigues you from what your Lord-azwj has Encumbered you with, regarding His-azwj Commands, and His-azwj Prohibitions, and His-azwj Promises, and His-azwj Threats, and do not pre-occupy it with other than what He-azwj has Encumbered you. And wash your heart with the water of grief, and Make the Zikr of Allah-azwj more hastening that His-azwj Mention of you, for He-azwj Mentions you while He-azwj is Needless of you, therefore His-azwj Mention of you is more Majestic and more Delightful, and complete from your Zikr for Him-azwj and be preceding (first). And your recognition of His-azwj Mention of you would inherit you the humbleness and the modesty and the submission, and from that would be produced the seeing of His-azwj Benevolence and His-azwj preceding Grace, and in the presence of that your obedience would be (viewed as) belittled and even if it was a lot in comparison to His-azwj Conferment. Therefore, be sincere to His-azwj Face. And seeing your Zikr for Him-azwj (as something) will inherit you the showing-off, and the self-conceit, and the wretchedness, and the harshness among His-azwj creatures, and deeming the acts of obedience as being a loth, and forgetting His-azwj Grace and His-azwj Benevolence, and you will not increase with that from Allah-azwj except in remoteness, and you will not attract with it upon the passing of days except in loneliness. And the Zikr is two (types of) Zikr -a sincere Zikr harmonising the heart, and a diverting Zikr negating the remembrance of others, just as Rasool-Allah-saww had said: ‘I-saww cannot count the laudation upon You-azwj! You-azwj are just as You-azwj have Lauded upon Yourself-azwj! ’
Rasool-Allah-saww did not make any measurement (worth) to be for his Zikr of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic with his-saww knowledge of reality of preceding Mention by Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic for him-saww from before his-saww Zikr for Him-azwj. From below it, he-saww is foremost. The one who wants to do Zikr of Allah-azwj the Exalted, let him know that the servant cannot do the Zikr of Allah-azwj unless there had been Inclination (from Allah-azwj) to do His-azwj Zikr, the servant would not have been able upon doing His-azwj Zikr’’. [55]