The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “To be present in an assembly of Zikr is better than prayer of one thousand rak’ats, attending one thousand funerals and visiting one thousand patients.”
The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “When you see a garden of Paradise, roam in it.” He was asked: “O Prophet of God (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), what is the garden of Paradise?” He said: “Assembly of Zikr.”
So a student should not turn away from such an assembly. When a man complained to Hasan al-Basri about the hardness of his heart, he said to him: Attend the assemblies of Zikr.
[From Ihya ulum-id-Din; written by Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali]
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