4. Zikr of Allah is a perpetual obligation on Muslim men and women. Allah has said: "He whose breast Allah hath opened to Islam, indeed hath light from his Lord. So woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allah..." (S. 39 : 22 SAL) There is a hint in this Quranic Verse that a servant (of Allah) should establish the remembrance of Allah with full force, because Allah has mentioned the attribute of hardness (sakhti) of the heart, and hardness is the attribute of stone. Allah has said: "Yet your hearts hardened thereafter, and became as rocks or harder still;…: (S. 2 : 74 SAL). And when the stone is hard, it breaks only when it is hit hard, and it has to be hit with a sledge-hammer. Allah has said: "And whoso shall relax his remembrance of Allah, the Compassionate, We shall attach to him a satan (or let an evil tendency develop in him) who shall be to him a fast companion" (S. 43 : 36 SAL). Prophet Muhammad (SLM) has said that satan rests his breast on the heart of man, and when man engages in the remembrance of Allah, satan withdraws and turns his face away, and when the heart of man ignores the remembrance of Allah, satan creates desires in the heart of man.

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