Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Individual or Group Dhikr
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The speaker explains that group hung practices like using a book to remember Allah and encourage others to take up courses to learn about Islam. They also mention a course on fundamental learning for understanding Islam at a high level. The course is designed to increase confidence and engagement for individuals and teams.
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Is it better to do dhikr by yourself
or by as a group?
Group dhikr helps
a routine that everybody is doing it, so
if you feel a bit lazy, well, you
have to do it together, people are looking
out for one another, there's that specific benefit.
Otherwise, I would say that dhikr by yourself
is the ultimate thing that you need to
do, because ultimately, each one of us wants
to connect with Allah. And when we say
dhikr, we usually talk about, subhanAllah, alhamdulillah,
saying something by the tongue. The real dhikr,
the ultimate dhikr that we need to achieve
is that the heart remembers Allah all the
time. So all of this remembrance that we
do is to actually force the heart, habituate
the heart to be remembering Allah even when
we're doing a job. You might be a
mechanic, but as you're fixing things, you're remembering
Allah. You're remembering Allah meaning you might be
glorifying him, you might be thanking him, you
might be asking him. So this is difficult.
You Allah help me.
And when it happens, oh Allah help me.
Allah made this easy. Thank you, Allah. Alhamdulillah.
It's that organic zikr ultimately that's where we
want to reach. That's where we want to
achieve.
Right? So ultimately, it's everybody to themselves,
but group effort, Zikr, helps a lot.
The point of a lecture is to encourage
people to act, to get further,
and inspiration,
and encouragement,
persuasion.
The next step is to actually start learning
seriously.
To read books, to take on a subject
of Islam, and to understand all the subjects
of Islam at least at their basic level.
So that we can become more aware of
what our deen wants from us.
And that's why we started,
Rayyan courses so that, you can actually take
organized lectures,
on demand whenever you have free time. Especially
for example, the Islamic essentials,
course that we have on there. The Islamic
essential certificate which you take 20 short modules
And at the end of that Insha'Allah, you
will
have gotten
the the basics of,
most of the most important topics in Islam,
and you'll feel a lot more confident. You
don't have to leave lectures behind. You can
continue to leave, you know, to listen to
lectures. But you need to have this more
sustained study as well.