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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Distributing Unverified Dhikr Pamphlets

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The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you and bless you.

The questioner:
This is a message received from a questioner in Riyadh, Abu Ahmad. He says: Small pamphlets have spread containing the following phrases, and he asks the Shaykh about their correctness. He says: There is a phrase that says, "If you want to make use of your time, you can follow this: You can glorify Allah two hundred times in an hour, you can praise Allah sixty times in a minute, you can say Allahu Akbar ten times in a second." What is the Shaykh's opinion of these writings?

The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, reminding people of good and...
...encouraging the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and increasing it, this is something found in the Qur'an:
O you who have believed, remember Allah with much remembranceيَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا اللَّهَ ذِكْرًا كَثِيرًا
[Al-Ahzab 33:41]
"and [remember] those who remember Allah often, [both] male and female," and "Remember Allah often so that you may succeed." All acts of worship are a remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So, encouraging the remembrance of Allah...
...is a required matter, and mentioning the virtues of dhikr is also a required matter, but it must be from authentic hadiths, authentic hadiths.
As for distributing pamphlets, I am cautious about these pamphlets except for those that have been verified by reliable scholarly references. As for anyone who writes a pamphlet and distributes it, and may publish something incorrect in it, whether he does not know or knows and wants to sow discord and mislead, I am cautious about these pamphlets until I know what the pamphlet is and what is in it. As for what the questioner mentioned, that it says in a minute so much, in an hour so much, in a second and in the second, this is something that has not come from the words of the Messenger, not in the words of Allah nor in the words of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Rather, what has come is the encouragement of the remembrance of Allah, the exhortation to it, and the explanation of its virtue. Here it is mentioned in the Qur'an that in a minute it equals so much, in an hour it equals so much, in a second and in the second. This is all forced effort. May Allah reward you and bless you for this guidance.
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