Remembering God Remembering You
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- “Remember Me; I will remember you. And thank Me, and never be ungrateful.”
~ Al-Quran 2:152
Along the Sufi path, great emphasis is put on the practice of “remembrance” (dhikr/zikr). This practice is usually directed from the practitioner to the Divine. But we’re going to introduce a variation of remembrance tonight that reverses the usual pattern, allowing you the opportunity to experience the Divine remembering you.
The value in this variation on the practice of dhikr is that it will create a sense of mutual connection with and gratitude toward the Divine. Even more importantly, it can help bring a practitioner to the understanding that they are not separate from the Divine. Individual being and the Divine Reality exist as two poles in a single field phenomenon, and we can tune into this truth through such a practice.
Let’s take an hour or so together to discuss and explore this for ourselves.
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This is brilliant. Watching the breath while doing remembrance of God is an excellent way to self rememberance. Giving more priority to the breathing and zikr (rememberance of God) than the outside world helps one get in touch with that magnetic centre. Acting from the true self is better than acting from the sleeping mechanic self.
[Noor] Yes, thank you, and may you find these practices simple yet fruitful. Thanks for your comment as always.
This was an outstanding class, with such a moving exercise on the Names of Allah. I will be watching this one more than once. Thanks you for all you do!
[Noor] Wonderful. Thank you to you as well!
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I feel like this idea expresses something about where the human being is uniquely situated in the cosmic structure. We are like a transformer that can both receive material from one level and transmit it to another, and that is in both directions, above and below like a magnetic core around which the various windings of the natural world form. When we remember ourselves we increase the flow in the magnetic field.
All our available conscious states from sleep, to the waking state, to self-remembering and beyond are all possible fragments of the universal consciousness. When I make an effort to reach a higher state as in self-remembering then I make a connection with a deeper part of myself, my own experience, an experience that is uniquely mine but strangely also a particle of the whole. There is no other connection with the divine than through myself.
[Noor] It may not be just humans alone, given that we're not in a position yet to know if there are other beings doing the same. Yes, it's quite a gift to have this capacity, and hopefully we can strive to make the most of it. Thanks for your comment.
34:33 We use the same language in Turkey too. Normally a child should call his father “babacım” which roughly means “my dearest father” but in Türkiye a father can call his son “babacım” and it is totally normal.
I always thought this happens because children get confused with the names and can call their father “my love” because they hear their mother call their father such or by their name, which is culturally inappropriate. So we want to teach our children how to call us by calling them by our title :D.
There may be another aspect to this of course.
That title comes with the other one. Because I am not aware of my father qualities if I don’t have anyone to call me father. So calling my son “my dearest father” makes me aware of my father qualities and also makes my son aware of my father qualities. In order my son to be aware of my father qualities he must learn what it means to be a father. So he learns: being a father means to have a child. He plays games with his friends where he becomes a father. Now internally, my son is both a son and a father. Just as I am. But I was not a father before my son was born, I believed. So the birth of my son has revealed something hidden in me. If my son was never born and if I never called him by my name I would never know one of my many aspects. One aspect of me would be missing and I would be missing.
[Noor] Fascinating, Mert! There's definitely a sweetness in this cultural custom. Thank you for sharing your insights and food for thought. Truly, we are learning cool things from you guys all the time. :)
This is wonderful. Can you recommend any resources that may help me deepen my connection to this practice? I'm not very familiar with the Divine Names, but would love to broaden my understanding in this area. Thank you.
[Mushtaq] I really like "Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah" I know 3 of the four authors and can vouch for them as OG Sufis.
dººb! Nice
Sounds like the remembrance is the universe continuously creating and destroying everything on a subatomic level, well let’s just say at a very fast pace. Kinda like a 35mm film which is basically a sting of stills but played at 24fps gives the illusion of motion. That’s always seemed sensible to me because otherwise you would just have a “true solid” which to me would be true death for lack of a better description.