{"id":12216,"date":"2015-11-28T05:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2015-11-28T05:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T05:28:02","slug":"excessive-zikr-without-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=12216","title":{"rendered":"Excessive Zikr without Reformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through merely engaging in excessive zikr, one will not succeed in gaining reformation in one\u2019s life. Gaining reformation is dependent on correcting one\u2019s actions and reforming one\u2019s conduct (i.e. correcting one\u2019s relationship with Allah Ta\u2018ala and His servants). The effect caused in one\u2019s heart through a\u2019amaal is only strengthened through the zikr. Zikr only serves as a motivation to assist one towards the path one is treading. However, in today\u2019s times many people who are ignorant of deen confine their effort upon zikr, and do not pay any attention to improving and correcting their actions and bringing it in conformity to the mubaarak sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). (Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 7\/171)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=7488\">Ihyaauddeen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sayings-of-the-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}