Sajid Ahmed Umar – Moments with Allah #06 – Do You Have To Move Your Lips When You Recite Or Practice Thikr?

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam I pray you all well
and your Ramadan is going well and welcome to another episode of our series this Ramadan moments
with Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			in the Muslim ummah Muhammad and Imam Ibn major also mentions this narration Imam Al Hakim also
mentions this narration. And remember Buhari also mentions it as a hanging narration
		

			and the rules of hanging relations in Buhari are different to
		

			the normal relations that we find in Buhari but in all cases, the scholars deem this narration as
sound.
		

			The narration states that Allah subhanho wa Taala says anima Abdi
		

			veka Ronnie, were to * rocket be chef atta that I am with my slave.
		

			As long as my slave remembers me, and because of me his lips move. Right so here we see Brothers and
Sisters in Islam.
		

			And we've been discussing this in previous episodes, but when we speak about the remembrance of
Allah, we speak about it holistically here. This narration is dedicated towards those who remember
Allah subhanho wa Taala by keeping their tongues moist with the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa
Taala
		

			and there's many talking points here. Firstly, obviously it's this idea of closeness to Allah
subhanho wa Tada we know that Allah subhanho wa Taala is on the way of our action. So you know, he's
close to us in terms of what we do what we say etc. But this is a specific unique type of closeness.
And this is
		

			a specific this is a closest that Allah Subhana Allah to Allah has with with members from the
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam it's not for everybody. Okay, this is a unique type of
closeness. It's only for the Met for certain chosen members of the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wasallam. And note up, these are the members of the Ummah, who remember Allah subhanho wa
taala, keeping their tongues moist with the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa taala. We also learned
Subhanallah
		

			from this narration, that remembering Allah with our tongues entails the lips moving, it doesn't
entail a remembrance of Allah with our heart.
		

			And
		

			the vicar taking place in our mind, without any actions being experienced, with our tongue and our
lips. And the scholars have discussed this and they've said that whoever remembers Allah subhanho wa
Taala with their heart than they rewarded for it, but more completely is when they remember Allah
subhanho wa Taala with their heart and their lips and their tongues, right. So there's movement. And
in this particular narration, we learn that this unit closest that Allah subhanahu Attallah has with
certain members from from the Umbra of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam. This is unique and
special, specific to those who remember Allah subhanho wa Taala with both the heart and the lips and
		

			tongue meaning there is movement, with the lips with their tongue. And also, it's not just movement
without thought. It's not just a remembrance of Allah subhanho wa Taala as a habit, without any
internal connection, but rather the heart also is engaged. And the lips and the tongue actually go
through a process manifesting exactly what the heart is going through. So here we see the complete
forms of the Quran. Generally, Brothers and Sisters in Islam, we should pay attention to these
things. The idea of when we get evidence and it says recite and recitation means that the lips move
and the tongue moves, it doesn't mean
		

			remember, it's merely them in the heart. And even now with Ramadan. We are reading the Quran and we
want a reward from Allah subhanho wa taala. It entails a recitation whereby your tongue and your
lips move as well. Many people, you find that they have this habit whereby they're just reading with
their eyes. And there's no tongue movement, there's no lip movement. Basically, the eyes, or what I
see is being read in the heart.
		

			The rewards that specifically highlight
		

			or the generations that specifically highlight, reciting something, and then as a result of it, you
get the rewards entailed exactly that Brothers and Sisters in Islam that completeness of the
rewards, they are based on actual recitation. So if you read in the Quran, with only your eyes and
your heart, then you losing many of the rewards you need to engage your tongue and your lips as
well. Along with your heart and this complete process, when reciting the Quran and engaging in the
remembrance of Allah subhanho wa Taala ultimately brings all the rewards and with the Quran,
specifically the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says that every letter recited is equal to
		

			10 is equal to 100 and a Hasson is equal to 10.
		

			rewards. So here, every letter recited
		

			also when it comes to so to cover, for example, the rewards of offset and also the benefits of it in
terms of wording of the gel, and other protectors from Washington and trials. I mean, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Whoever reads it, reading is a concept well known in the Arabic
language and it entails the movement of the lips, and the tongue a certain idea of looking at it,
and reading it in a different sense, but rather the physical reading. So this is a point Brothers
and Sisters in Islam, that Allah subhanho wa Taala is closeness, but he has a unique closeness with
those who do certain acts from them, remembering him with the heart, with the lips, in their tongues
		

			and also within the Quran of examples. Allah subhanahu Attalus is in Allah madeleina In a taco that
we have moments with Allah subhanho wa Taala when we do that, which Allah subhanho wa Taala told us
to do, right? That's from Taco well Lavina who Masino Allah has has has a unique closeness to those
who do good, right? They do good to other people. So because they are people of Sun and the Sun,
they do good to others. Allah subhana wa Tada has a unique closeness with them which is different to
the general process that Allah subhanho wa Taala has, with his creation, Allah says in the Aloha
Siberian, this is another example. Allah subhanho wa Taala has a unique closest to those who are
		

			patients of Han Allah, right. So Allah subhanho wa Taala has a unique closeness to parts of the
Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and we see from these examples, where those who are
patient with those who do good with those who have Taqwa and with those who remember Allah subhanho,
wa taala, with their tongues, and the lips, and no doubt with connectivity to the hearts that it's a
complete process of them engaging in the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa taala. And one other point
we also highlighted from this Brothers and Sisters in Islam is that for us to get rewards,
especially with those narrations that highlight to us the rewards for doing things and they specify
		

			recitation. This no doubt entails the lips moving and the tongues moving. So this is something for
us to be aware of take heed of so that we don't just lose so many rewards. Due to being ignorant of
the sometimes we do know the lesson. But without realizing Subhanallah we actually speed reading we
reading with our eyes without any activity taking place with our tongues and lips. So I leave you
with these words and I pray it's a means of you having an even more fluent, fluid and amazing
Ramadan. Until next time, salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.