115 - Frequent remembrance of God

عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُسْرٍ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إِنَّ شَرَائِعَ الإِسْلَامِ قَدْ كَثُرَتْ عَلَيَّ، فَأَخْبِرْنِي بِشَيْءٍ أَتَشَبَّثُ بِهِ، قَالَ: «لَا يَزَالُ لِسَانُكَ رَطْبًا مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ».

‘Abdullāh ibn Busr said that 

1. A man said to the Prophet: ‘Messenger of God, Islamic teachings are too numerous for me. Point out to me something to which I can hold on.’  

2. The Prophet said to him: ‘Let your tongue be always fresh with the remembrance of God’. 

Related Quranic Verses

Remember Me, then, and I will remember you; give thanks to Me and never deny Me.

(2: 152)

And bethink yourself of your Lord humbly and with awe, and without raising your voice, in the morning and evening; and do not be negligent.

(7:205)

Those who believe and whose hearts find comfort in the remembrance of God. It is indeed in the remembrance of God that people’s hearts find their comfort.

(13: 28)

Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book, and attend regularly to your prayer; for prayer restrains people from loathsome deeds and from all that is evil. To remember God is greater still. God knows all that you do.

(29: 45)

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