114 - The importance of God’s remembrance

عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَـى الأشعريِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، قَالَ: «مَثَلُ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي يُذْكَرُ اللهُ فِيهِ، وَالْبَيْتِ الَّذِي لَا يُذْكَرُ اللهُ فِيهِ، مَثَلُ الْـحَيِّ وَالْـمَيِّتِ». 

وَلِلْبُخَارِيِّ: «مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَذْكُرُ رَبَّهُ، وَالَّذِي لَا يَذْكُرُ رَبَّهُ، مَثَلُ الحَيِّ وَالـمَيِّتِ».

Abu Mūsā al-Ash‘arī narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: 

1. A house in which God’s name is frequently mentioned and one in which God’s name is not mentioned may be compared to one who is alive and one who is dead.  

2. In al-Bukhari’s version: The one who remembers his Lord and the one who does not remember his Lord are like the one who is alive and the one who is dead.

Related Quranic Verses

Is he who was dead and whom We have raised to life, and for whom We set up a light to see his way among men, to be compared to one who is in deep darkness out of which he cannot emerge? Thus do their deeds seem goodly to the unbelievers.

(6: 122)

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)

God guides to Himself those who turn to Him; (27) 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: 27-28)

Believers! Remember God always, (41) and glorify him morning and evening.

(33: 41-42)

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