Most Important Practice "Zhikr"

The "Deen" did not come to establish sovereignty over the earth but to establish sovereignty over life beyond death. Or as Hazrat ISA (Jesus) put it, "to reach the Kingdom of Heavens." This is only possible for a person if he comes to enter within his own reality.

No doubt, it is our brains that will enable us to attain such a consciousness.

The higher the level we use our brains and appreciate, the more the benefits we attain.

At that degree we will have an ability to think comprehensively, reach an objective point of view, reinforce our spiritual power and reach a broader capacity to know "ALLAH."

But how will we be able to improve (develop) our brains?

As we have already discussed it in our book entitled "DUA and ZHIKR" broadly, this can be achieved through the practice known as "ZHIKR!"

The only key for a person to reach all this is "ZHIKR."

As a detailed information of its mechanism is already available in our book entitled "MYSTERIES OF HUMAN," now, I will give only a brief summary of it.

We can understand "Zhikr" simply as the repetition of particular names of "ALLAH" or as the recitation of some prayers.

In the second sense, "Zhikr" refers to remembering, mentioning and meditating.

In a superior dimension "zhikr" is known as persisting, dwelling on a subject to the point of its full comprehension and meditating on it.

A few of the signs on the importance of zhikr in the Koran are as follows:

A major negligence of ours is the fact that most of us do not practice zhikr at all. The brains which lack the power of zhikr are indeed easily influenced by the jinni.

That is to say, the phenomenon known as the Satan's obsession is a matter of a greater importance in areas than thought.

The Koran informs that the MAJORITY of human beings are under the domination of jinni as in the following sign:

Zhikr is mankind's unique defense arm against the influences from the jinni who, in our day, present themselves as "aliens," or "extraterrestrial beings" and are commonly recognized as UFO!

The Koran teaches us the prayer to recite against them:

Zhikr and dua (recital of prayers) are man's unique self-defense arms against the jinni who always keep close to cigarette smokers as CIGARETTE smoke is one of their major nutrients.

Nevertheless, if a person produces a defensive magnetic zone around himself through his brain by way of prayers' recital and zhikr, he can partly weaken the impulses sent by the jinni and even completely avoid them.

Because, one of the benefits gained through zhikr is that a protective area forms around the working person through his brain's transmission in relation with the content of zhikr words he meditates.

Of course, it should be the main goal for every human to know himself as well as his surrounding by improving his brain by way of zhikr. Because, there exists such superior potentials in our brains that one cannot even imagine. If only we could take advantage of them!

One can understand the nature of human and the existence, their system of operation, and the qualities within human as well as the way to appreciate those qualities only by way of KNOWLEDGE and ZHIKR. And all these are attained only after the complementary zhikr practices are achieved.

Footnote:
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* Zhikr as a practice is simply the constant inward remembrance of ALLAH Names by the repetition of any of them or by the recital of some prayers in mind. When you practice Zhikr, (similar to Meditation which the Western world is familiar with) you repeat continuously a given name of ALLAH such as QUDDUS, MUREED, or HAKIM, and so, a number of times usually daily with the help of worry beads or a counter. As concentration is not necessarily required, there is no requirement to start Zhikr anytime, anywhere. Whether one believes or not, or whether he is aware or not, the related regions of brain become active when the task is achieved, so the resulting benefit is gained spontaneously. At the beginning, repetition might be pronounced by the silent movements of lips. Later when it gets easier the constant repetition is felt inwardly from the mind only. As it can be seen from the following signs in the Koran, without any restriction anyone can practice Zhikr anytime he or she wants and anywhere (provided that a convenient list of Zhikr words is advised to him or her according to their brain programs): “Meditate (Zhikr) ALLAH standing and sitting and lying down” (Sura Nisa:103). ."those who meditate (Zhikr) ALLAH standing and sitting and lying on their sides, and who reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth." (Sura Al’imran:190). (A. Baki)

* * As we have mentioned before, limitations brought on our perception by our 5 senses prevent us from understanding many phenomena in the cosmos, such as the righteous comprehension of our own reality, the consciousness and therefore of “Allah.” Thus we need to expand our perceptional range by increasing the capacity of our brains. Zhikr is the way to do that.

All the activity in the brain is nothing but bioelectric activity in several distinct parts of it, among various sets of neurons (cellular groups) each assigned to a specific duty functioning as a whole. Each and everyday 14 million neurons that make up the brain, are in a constant interaction with 16 billion neighboring neurons. All our activities and our understanding, that is all the functioning of a brain is the result of countless bioelectric flows that are brought to existence in these sets of neurons occurring as a result of these interactions.

When you practice “Zhikr” you repeat continuously a given name of Allah, —for instance, “Quddus” or “Mureed” or “Alim” a number of times—, and therefore reflect a meaning that belongs to ALLAH.

During the repetition certain regions of the brain are engaged and become active, so there occurs a bioelectric flow in that neural groups of the brain. After that task is performed repeatedly (as you repeat on the same name or a group of names) the neural activity increases, and so does the bioelectric energy, which overflows and new sets of neurons are put to work and so, some other regions of the brain become active. And therefore the brain capacity starts to expand. The brain starts to bring out new meanings, perspectives and commentaries that it had not used before Zhikr.

During this practice one is also in the continuous process of radiating spiritual energy, and loading it onto his hologramlike body of frequencies, his spirit, his eternal and imperishable existence. The following is a list of names and prayers advised by Author Ahmed Hulusi in his book “Dua and Zhikr” to start Zhikr by yourself. (As a simple method to practice daily with the help of a counter or worry beads, at each step a Name is fastly repeated, say, six or nine times at once (Mureed, Mureed, Mureed - Mureed, Mureed, Mureed) so that at the end of 100 time repetition it counts 600 or 900.

100 Allahumma einni ala zhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatika
300 Kuddusut takhiru min kulli suin.
300 La ilaha illa ante subhanaqa inni quntu minaz zalemin
300 Rabbi zidni ilman wa fahman wa iymana
3600 Mureed
2700 Mumin
1800 Haqim
2700 Quddus

The following is a passage taken from an article in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN December 1993, describing complementary laboratory findings about this matter to prove our explanations, which was published seven years after Author Ahmed Hulusi’s first explanations on its importance:

“Complementary findings described this year by investigators at Washington University have emerged from PET scans of humans. (PET measures neural activity indirectly.) In the experiments, volunteers were provided with a list of nouns. They were required to read the nouns ., one by one, and to propose for each noun a related verb. When the subjects first did this task, several distinct parts of the brain, including parts of the prefrontal and cingulate cortex, displayed increased neural activity. But if the volunteers repeated the task with the same list of nouns several times, the activity shifted to different regions. When the volunteers were given a fresh list of nouns, the neural activity increased and shifted back to the first areas again.

PET SCANS done at the Washington University show certain regions of the brain engaged as a subject reads a list of nouns and suggests related verbs. Different regions become active after the task is performed repeatedly with the same list. The original areas of the brain are reengaged when the subject is given a list of new nouns.” (A. Baki)