# Episode 6: The Preferred Forms of Remembrance

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** Virtues of Dhul Hijjah
**Published:** 2019-08-06
**YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBQ-oPCrCw
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-6-the-preferred-forms-of-remembrance-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah
**Topics:** Acts of Worship, Sharia

## Description
What are the best forms of remembrance during these blessed days? Dr. Omar Suleiman reviews the three small yet powerful phrases to recite frequently in order to keep Allah on your mind and in your heart. Episode Transcript (Note: the transcript has been edited for clarity) 0:00 – 0:56 The phrases...

## Transcript
**[0:01]** Salamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh everyone. Welcome back to the virtues of Dhul Hijjah. So in another narration where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned the benefits of these good deeds, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, there are no days in

**[0:19]** which good deeds are greater or more beloved to Allah than on these ten days. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, so because of that, recite more of La ilaha illallah, tahleel and takbeer which is Allahu Akbar and tahmeed which is Alhamdulillah.

**[0:37]** So say more of the forms of dhikr, La ilaha illallah, Allahu Akbar, Alhamdulillah and of course tasbih as well, subhanallah and others. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam specifically here is saying that we need to increase in our remembrance of Allah in these ten days and he's mentioning the phrases that

**[0:54]** we typically would recite. Now tahleel, La ilaha illallah, once again you're really going to affirm that more than anything else on the day of Arafah. But throughout these ten days, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the best form of dhikr, the best form of remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is La ilaha illallah

**[1:11]** so keep your tongue moist with La ilaha illallah, constant affirmations and that's throughout the year. Now here the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also as the scholars point out is speaking to quantity. So it's the quality of those affirmations but he's also speaking to the quantity in

**[1:26]** which he would mention these phrases of remembrance particularly in these days. And there are things that we find from the practices of the companions that we could implement today. So for example it's narrated in Bukhari that in the first ten days of Dhul Hijjah, Abdullah

**[1:42]** bin Umar may Allah be pleased with him and his father and Abu Huraira radiallahu anhu, they used to go out to the marketplace constantly reciting Takbir. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar La ilaha illallah Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa lillahi alhamd. Now these are phrases that you only hear on Eid day usually but they would go out throughout

**[2:00]** the ten days reciting these in the marketplace and the people would join in with them and they'd start to recite Takbir as well. Now if you live in the west I don't recommend you go into a mall and start shouting Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar right? But there's a point that's to be stressed here that if that's what used to be done in

**[2:17]** the marketplace then we should remind ourselves in our homes as our families like hey it's the first ten days of Dhul Hijjah let's recite Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar let's increase the forms of Dhikr and they would do them loudly to remind everyone else and the people would join as well.

**[2:34]** We do so going in and out of the masajid after our prayers, walking into our prayers, walking out of our prayers, emphasizing that repeated form of Dhikr over and over and over again and this is one of the sunnahs again that is really really left out you know you find

**[2:52]** abandoned particularly in these ten days. This is also another way for us to connect in a special way with the prophet who is honored most after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam within these ten days which is Ibrahim Alayhi Salam because these words of remembrance were given in the form of an advice in the conversation

**[3:10]** between the Prophet Ibrahim Alayhi Salam, Abraham and the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the night of As-Salatul Mi'raj. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam said that I met Ibrahim Alayhi Salam on the night of the Ascension on the night of As-Salatul Mi'raj and he said to me oh Muhammad convey my greetings

**[3:27]** to your Ummah convey my greetings to your nation so Ibrahim Salam to us and then tell them that paradise has a vast plain of pure soil and sweet water and is set as a plain leveled land.

**[3:42]** The plants grow here by Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illallah, Allahu Akbar. The seeds of these trees the seeds of these plants in paradise are Subhanallah, how perfect is Allah, Alhamdulillah, all praises to Allah, La ilaha illallah, there is no God but Allah,

**[3:58]** Allahu Akbar and Allah is the greatest. So these forms of dhikr that we say are the seeds that are meant for the soil of Al-Jannah for the soil of paradise and this came in a conversation between Ibrahim Alayhi Salam and Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that he said to us Salaam that he sent peace to

**[4:17]** us and said remind them to say these words frequently because that's how they continue to plant their trees in Al-Jannah. So if that's for throughout the year then what then of these ten days were the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said be plentiful make sure that you do a lot of these forms

**[4:35]** of remembrance constantly saying Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illallah, Allahu Akbar. So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to accept our dhikr our remembrance inside of these ten days and outside of these ten days and to allow us to keep our tongues moist with these remembrances as well as our hearts saturated in them.

**[4:52]** Allahumma ameen. Jazakumullahu khayran. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

## Other Episodes in "Virtues of Dhul Hijjah"
- [Episode 10: "And in That Let Them Rejoice"](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-10-and-in-that-let-them-rejoice-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 9: The Wonders of 'Arafah](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-9-the-wonders-of-arafah-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 8: 3 Years of Fasting](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-8-3-years-of-fasting-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 7: The Sacrifice](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-7-the-sacrifice-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 5: Fasting the First 9 Days](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-5-fasting-the-first-9-days-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 4: The 10 Days of Moses](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-4-the-10-days-of-moses-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 3: The Days Allah Swears By](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-3-the-days-allah-swears-by-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 2: The Best Good Deeds](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-2-the-best-good-deeds-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)
- [Episode 1: The Sacred Months](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/episode-1-the-sacred-months-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah.md)