Lecture on Remembrance and the Importance of Closeness to God

Introduction

• The difficulty of the path without God's guidance.
• The loneliness of the path without God's companionship.
• The lecture addresses the importance of remembrance and finding solace in God.

Importance of Remembrance

• Discussing the significance of striving to achieve worship.
• Remembrance is not just words but a state, spirit, and taste.

Types of Remembrance and its Impact

• Remembrance includes prayers and post-prayer invocations.
• Bringing the heart to remembrance is very important.
• Examples from the Quran on remembering God.
• Personal experience of remembrance and making things easier.

Benefits of Remembrance

• It opens provisions and brings blessings in time and deeds.
• Improves psychological and physical state.

Tips for Continuing Remembrance

• Patience in remembrance and striving in it.
• Learning daily invocations and applying them on all occasions.
• Teaching family and children the invocations.

Effect of Remembrance in Closeness to God

• The love of God appears through the comfort of remembrance.
• Remembrance protects from sins and enhances the spiritual state.
• Remembrance of God is an essential element in the journey of faith.

The Prophet’s (PBUH) Prayer for Muadh

• The importance of the prayer "O Allah, help me in remembering You, thanking You, and worshiping You properly."
• Continuity in remembrance assists in performing acts of worship.

Importance of Reading Invocations

• Examples from the Quran and Hadith affirm the importance of invocations.
• Remembrance should be in all circumstances and must be adhered to.

Practical Approach to Invocations

• Tips on books that should be owned like "Fortress of the Muslim."
• The importance of prayer and remembrance for every time and situation.

Psychological Impact of Remembrance

• One finds psychological comfort and tranquility from remembrance.
• Remembrance lifts concerns from you and opens doors for you in this world and the hereafter.

Prayer and Conclusion

• Closing prayer from Sheikh Ahmed suitable for the session.
• Hope that the lecture will encourage remembrance.