The Ruling on Regularly Reciting Certain Dhikr and Advising Others to Do So

Question:
I have some regular recitations of dhikr and Qur'anic verses that I keep up with so that the benefit is widespread, and I have directed my colleagues to read them as I do. Is there anything wrong with that? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If they are prescribed dhikr and prescribed supplications, and you advise them and direct them to them, then this is from cooperating in righteousness and piety. The scholars have written on this, such as the author of al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, Riyad al-Salihin, al-Adhkar by al-Nawawi, al-Kalimah al-Tayyibah, and al-Wabil al-Sayyib. I also have a treatise on the subject that I named: Tuhfat al-Akhyar fi al-Ad'iyyah wa al-Adhkar. If a person takes from these books and benefits from some of the prescribed supplications and prescribed dhikr in them, that is good. If he advises his brothers to do so and counsels them, then all of that is good, and it is from advising one another to truth.