Knowledge and Cognition
Question 2
Are the Book and the Sunnah not enough for one’s salvation on the Day of Judgement? If yes, than why should one resort to Sufi practices of Zikr with the specified restrictions, even when he is following the Book and the Sunnah?
Frequent Zikr is not limited to any specific time and the fact that it is ordained for both the morning and the evening is proved from the Quran and the Sunnah, as discussed earlier. Zikr is an action in accordance with the Book and the Sunnah, why should than it be considered as a separate entity? Hadith-e-Jibreel highlights that besides beliefs (Iman) and actions (Islam), there is yet another obligatory part of religion which must be complied with, i.e. Ehsan. And it is this Ehsan which is termed as Tasawwuf. It is thus proved that a person cannot act fully on the Book and the Sunnah unless he engaged himself in frequent Zikr in general, and performs Zikr regularly both in the morning and in the evening, in particular.