Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Individual or Group Dhikr

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.