Allah instructs us in the Qur'an the true Believers are those who are mindful of God as much as possible - they remember Him lying, sitting and standing. So the question is why does God want us to be mindful of Him at the highest level possible? Well first of all, to be mindful simply means to remember God, to keep him at least in the back of your mind if not the forefront when you are doing a task or engaged in a conversation.
Now, let's look at some of the reasons why.
Consider we wouldn't even be alive if God didn't exist. And if God ceased to exist (which is an impossibility), then we too would also cease to exist along with everything else. This is because God is both the Creator and the Sustainer of His creation. So if God created us, and He sustains us...right through each and every one of our breaths...well, don't you think we ought to be thinking about him lying, sitting and standing?
Let's not take this lightly. Let me put this in perspective. How much do we think about our upcoming exam? How much do we think about our upcoming job interview, our big sales meeting, our meeting with our boss, or even a movie we recently saw? An awful lot don't we? And yet, these things pale in utter insignificance in the face of the importance and gravity of what God does for us in each and every single moment of every day. The Qur'an says (paraphrased), 'if you tried to count God's favours, you could never count them all'.
Do you want to know what the real question is? How can we be so deluded as to not think about God as often as possible...that is, when we are lying, sitting and standing?
By being mindful of God, it keeps us more aligned with God's attributes, which is our natural disposition if we allowed since He breathed our souls into us from His very spirit. God says to hold tight to His rope. He also says to take refuge in Him from the temptations of Satan. How else do we do this except by being mindful of God, by remembering Him. Human beings are capable of only one thought at any given time...so if we are thinking of Allah, then it is impossible to be tempted by Satan at that particular point in time. So the remembrance of Allah, by consequence, encourages us to behave in ways that are more in line with, and thus express, Allah's qualities.
Can there be any better qualities than Allah's?
Now, let's look at some of the reasons why.
Consider we wouldn't even be alive if God didn't exist. And if God ceased to exist (which is an impossibility), then we too would also cease to exist along with everything else. This is because God is both the Creator and the Sustainer of His creation. So if God created us, and He sustains us...right through each and every one of our breaths...well, don't you think we ought to be thinking about him lying, sitting and standing?
Let's not take this lightly. Let me put this in perspective. How much do we think about our upcoming exam? How much do we think about our upcoming job interview, our big sales meeting, our meeting with our boss, or even a movie we recently saw? An awful lot don't we? And yet, these things pale in utter insignificance in the face of the importance and gravity of what God does for us in each and every single moment of every day. The Qur'an says (paraphrased), 'if you tried to count God's favours, you could never count them all'.
Do you want to know what the real question is? How can we be so deluded as to not think about God as often as possible...that is, when we are lying, sitting and standing?
By being mindful of God, it keeps us more aligned with God's attributes, which is our natural disposition if we allowed since He breathed our souls into us from His very spirit. God says to hold tight to His rope. He also says to take refuge in Him from the temptations of Satan. How else do we do this except by being mindful of God, by remembering Him. Human beings are capable of only one thought at any given time...so if we are thinking of Allah, then it is impossible to be tempted by Satan at that particular point in time. So the remembrance of Allah, by consequence, encourages us to behave in ways that are more in line with, and thus express, Allah's qualities.
Can there be any better qualities than Allah's?
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