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Does silent dhikr count, and is it better than loud dhikr?
Silent dhikr, which even the angel scribes cannot hear, is narrated to be seventy times superior to vocal dhikr on the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will reward it as a good deed of which even the scribes are unaware. Verbal utterance is, however, unanimously considered necessary in certain injunctions, such as the recitation of the Qur'an, in Salah, and in contracts such as marriage or divorce. Depending on the tariqa, the shaykh may teach verbal remembrance or silent remembrance with the heart.
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Are gatherings of dhikr (halaqah) in the Sunnah?
The hadith of the angels who go about looking for the people of dhikr endorses the significance of the gatherings of dhikr: Allah forgives those gathered, and also the one who happened to pass by and sat with them, though he only came for something he needed. In another narration, Allah's Messenger went out to a circle of his Companions sitting to remember Allah and told them that Jibril had informed him that Allah was talking to the angels about their magnificence. The special peace and tranquillity that settles upon the heart in an assembly of dhikr is explained by the hadith on the sakina that descends on a group gathered in a house of Allah to recite Allah's Book or study it among themselves.
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Does the remembrance of Allah bring peace to an anxious heart?
Worries, anxiety, depression and mental health issues are on the rise, and the concept of true happiness is lost in the vortex of worldly desires. The Creator gave the secret for happiness in the Qur'an, that only through His remembrance do hearts find peace, and when the Creator has set that rule, there is no other means to satisfaction, may it be wealth, fame or status. The Qur'an is a manual and a code for conduct revealed by the Creator, and one who chooses not to follow its rules faces the repercussions not only in the afterlife but also in this world.
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What does “Remember Me, and I will remember you” mean?
When a servant remembers Allah, Allah remembers him, and the greatest reward for a lover is that the Beloved remembers him. In this world it is not possible to behold Allah's vision by the eye, but by due remembrance the servant can achieve the perpetual state of ihsan and behold the vision of Allah through his heart; the everlasting reward of the believers, the visage, would be in the hereafter.
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