DHIKR - ذِكْر ‎

Literally: Bearing in one's mind. Recalling to mind. Recollection. Mentioning. Telling, narrating. Remembrance. To be remembered.

Thinking of Allah’s (‘Azza wa jalla) greatness and grandeur, and repeating Asmâ al-Husnâ with tafakkur.

‘Ubûdiyyah looks to the command of Allah and the acceptance and pleasure of Allah. The cause of ‘ubûdiyyah is the command of Allah and its result is the acceptance and pleasure of Haqq. Its fruits and benefits belong to the âkhirah. But, on condition that they are not the ultimate purpose and not intentionally sought, the benefits belonging to this world and the fruits that come about themselves and are given without being sought are not contrary to ‘ubûdiyyah. They rather become a cause for being preferred and incentives for the weak. If those fruits and benefits belonging to this world become the reason or a part of the reason for that awrâd or dhikr, it partly invalidates that ‘ubûdiyyah. It rather causes that beneficial and powerful awrâd to be fruitless and to produce no results.

The Seventeenth Flash - Thirteenth Note/The Second Matter