There are different levels of ‘Zikr’ Remembrances, and each has different ways. Some are expressed outwardly with audible voice, some felt inwardly, silently, from the center of the heart.
At the beginning one should
declare in words what one remembers.
Then stage by stage the remembrance
spreads throughout one’s being descending to the heart then rising to the soul,
then still further it reaches the realm of the secrets, further to the hidden;
to the most hidden of the hidden.
How far the remembrance penetrates, the level
it reaches, depends solely on the extent to which Allāah Kareem in His bounty
has guided one.
Shaiek ‘Abdul-Qāadir al-Jilaanī
[Rahmatul Laah Alaieh]
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