Allah has said:
"Therefore remember Me, I will remember you and be grateful to Me, and reject not faith." (Al-Baqarah: 152)
He also said:
"O you who believe! Remember Allah with much remembrance." (Al-Ahzaab: 41)
And at another place in Quran Allah tells us how His remembrance will be rewarded:
"And for men and women who engage much in Allah's remembrance, for them has Allah prepared forgiveness and great reward." (Al-Ahzaab: 35)
Yet at another place Allah tells us how and when we should remember Him:
"And bring your Lord to remembrance in your (very) soul, with humility and remembrance without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings, and be not of those who are unheedful." (Al-A'raaf: 205)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "The comparison of one who remembers Allah and the one who does not remember Allah, is like that of the living and the dead." (Al-Bukhaaree with Al-Fath: 11/208) "The comparison of the house in which Allah is mentioned and the house in which Allah is not mentioned, is like that of the living and the dead." (Muslim: 1/539)
He (peace be upon him) also said: "Should I not inform you of the best of deeds, and the most sanctifying of deeds before your Lord, which does more to raise your positions (with Him), and are better for you than the disbursement of gold and money, or battle with the enemy?" They (the companions) said: "Indeed! Inform us." He (peace be upon him) then said: "Remembrance of Allah." (At-Tirmidhee 5/459 and Ibn Maajah 2/1245, see: Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/316 and Saheeh At-Tirmidhee 3/139)
He (peace be upon him) also said: "Should I not inform you of the best of deeds, and the most sanctifying of deeds before your Lord, which does more to raise your positions (with Him), and are better for you than the disbursement of gold and money, or battle with the enemy?" They (the companions) said: "Indeed! Inform us." He (peace be upon him) then said: "Remembrance of Allah." (At-Tirmidhee 5/459 and Ibn Maajah 2/1245, see: Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/316 and Saheeh At-Tirmidhee 3/139)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) also said: "Allah says: 'Indeed I am as My servant presumes Me to be, and I am with him when he remembers Me, so if he remembers Me to himself I remember him to Myself, and if he remembers Me amongst a company I remember him amongst a company greater than it, and if he draws near to Me the span of a hand I draw near to him the span of an arm, and if draws near to Me the span of an arm I draw near to him the span of two outstretched arms, and if he takes a step towards Me I hastily step towards him." (Al-Bukhaaree 5/175 and Muslim 4/2061, this specific wording is related by Al-Bhukaaree)
On authority of Abdullah Ibn Busr: A man said to Prophet (peace b upon him) "O Messenger of Allah, The rites of Islam are much for me, so tell me something that I might hold fast to." He (peace be upon him) said: "Let not your tongue cease from the remembrance of Allah." (At-Tirmidhee 5/458 and Ibn Maajah 2/1246, see: Saheeh Ibn Maajah 2/317 and Saheeh At-Tirmidhee 3/139)
The Prophet (peace b upon him) also said: "Whoever recites a letter of Allah's Book has for it, a merit and ten more like it, not to say that alif, laam, meem are on letter but rather alif is a letter, laam is a letter and meem is a letter." (At-Tirmidhee 5/175, see: Saheeh At-Tirmidhee 3/9 and Saheeh Al-Jaami' As-Sagheer 5/340)
The Prophet (peace b upon him) also said: "Whoever recites a letter of Allah's Book has for it, a merit and ten more like it, not to say that alif, laam, meem are on letter but rather alif is a letter, laam is a letter and meem is a letter." (At-Tirmidhee 5/175, see: Saheeh At-Tirmidhee 3/9 and Saheeh Al-Jaami' As-Sagheer 5/340)
He (peace b upon him) also said: "Are there any of you who would wish to go every say to the Buthaan or Al-'Aqeeq (i.e. the name of the two ditches in Madeenah) in re early morning and return from it with two she-camels without incurring any sin or severing relations?' We (the companions) said: "We would indeed love that, O Messenger of Allah (peace be on you)." He (peace b upon him) said: "then you should go to the mosque and acquire some knowledge, or recite two verses from the book of Allah, that would be better for you than two she-camels, and three verses are better than three she-camels, and four verses are better than four she-camels, and the same for a like number of male camels." (Muslim 1/553)
The Prophet (peace b upon him) also said: "Whoever takes a seat and fails to remember Allah, has incurred upon himself a loss from Allah, and whoever lies down (relaxes) and fails to remember Allah, has incurred upon himself a loss from Allah." (Adu Daawud 4/264 and others, see: Saheeh Al-Jaami' 5/342).
He (peace b upon him) also said: "Whenever people sit in a gathering in which they fail to remember Allah and send prayers upon the Prophet they incur a loss upon themselves and if Allah willed He would punish them and if He willed He would forgive them." (At-Tirmidhee, see: Saheeh At-Tirmidhee 3/140)
Similarly, he (peace b upon him) said: "Whenever people rise from a gathering in which they failed to remember Allah, they rise as if they had arisen from the corpse of an ass and incurring upon themselves grief." (Abu Daawud 4/264 and Ahmad 2/389, see Saheeh Al-Jaami' 5/176)
May Allah make us from His chosen and the guided people and strengthen the roots of our iman! May we be blessed to remember the Lord of the Worlds in every doing of our lives.
Ameen Thumameen آمين ثم آمين
