Zikr (Prayer Recitation) in Ghaderiyeh’s Spiritual Doctrine

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Naser Farniya ¹ , Khalil Hadidi ² , Ali Dehghan ³

1 - PhD Student in Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Associate Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

Received: 2012-11-02 Accepted : 2013-02-15 Published : 2012-05-21

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Abstract :

Zikr  is  the  departure  from  the  field  of  ignorance  to  the  field  of perception, which springs from either the dominance of fear or the excess of love. The truth about Zikr is that you must forget all things except Mazkor (the one who you say prayer recitation for) and our intention of Zikr is the mental Zikr not the verbal one. The invocation of God is forgetting our humble beings through remembering the Almighty names that  its  continuance  results  in  purifying  the  heart  and  forgetting  God makes the heart strained. In this research, first, the author has included the definitions and kinds of Zikr and the feedback of famous mystics and great philosophers’ viewpoints in this area and then he has included the importance of Zikr in Ghaderiyeh’s doctrine and its customs and common Zikrs  in  this  doctrine.  Moreover,  the  author  has  finally  attempted  to analyze and deduce the above-mentioned matters.