A008
Surah: 073 - Ayah: 008
Click here to see the translations
73:8
Tabattal! (Cut off, sever, devote yourself!)
It is said in verse (73:8): "And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with complete devotion.” The teachings of this surah are related to kar-i buzurg, for the purpose of which there is the vigil of the night. But how can a mu'min who is engaged in dhikr cut himself off from all thoughts and merge in the ocean of dhikr, an act which is not achievable in a single day? Therefore, it is said that it is the continuous vigil of the night which results in crushing the carnal soul, in which lie the correctness of speech and spiritual progress. (73:6)
Q226 What is the reference of the verse in which it is commanded to remember the name of the Lord and which is the verse in which there is a mention or an allusion to His blessed didar (vision)?
A226 The first is verse (73:8): “And remember the name of your Lord …” and the second is verse (7:205): “And remember your Lord within yourself (personal world) with humility and fear, without raising the voice, at morning and evening. And do not be of the neglectful.” That is, remember the holy didar of the Lord, wherever you were blessed with it in your personal world, slowly in the way of giryah-u zari.
This verse has been referred 2 times.