OCCULT (DARK) KNOWLEDGE: Meditation and Yoga — A Counterfeit Form of Dhikr

OCCULT (DARK) KNOWLEDGE: Meditation and Yoga — A Counterfeit Form of Dhikr

Satan would never want you to be happy. He knows very well that if you engage in dhikr, you will inevitably be saved from his influence. For this reason, you must sincerely wish to reach Allah; Satan has already succeeded in obscuring that wish from people’s practices. Even though Allah has made dhikr obligatory in 12 different verses of Qur'ân, in today’s religious understandings and university teachings there is no emphasis on sincerely wishing to reach Allah. Dhikr has a name, but it has been removed from many of the obligations and practices that people follow

Nevertheless, out of concern that there might still be people who would genuinely desire to engage in dhikr, Satan introduced transcendental meditation and yoga as deceptive alternatives that distract people from true remembrance of Allah.

In the practice of meditation and yoga, certain Sanskrit words or mantras are repeated. The word “Om (Aum)” is used. It is believed that this word is a sacred sound symbolizing the vibration of all existence. However, the code through which Allah sends the lights of mercy, virtue, and salawat into our hearts is the name “Allah.”

It is claimed that the mantras increase focus and give a feeling of peace. But see what really happens during meditation and yoga: The darkness of Satan reaches your heart from your feet upwards, enters through the gate of darkness of your heart and fills it completely. If you are already 100% full of vices in your heart, then the concentration of vices increases. Darkness deepens into pitch darkness. Allah Almighty says in Al-Baqara 10, ‘There is a disease in their hearts. And Allah has increased their disease because of that.’ So the application of these dark practices by satan darkens the heart even more.

We asked someone who attended a meditation session: ‘What did you feel?’ He said, ‘I felt something coming from below and filling my heart.’ The repeatedly chanted sound ‘Om’ creates a humming and vibration in the environment; this is a sign that the satanic influence has begun. Those dark influences rise from the earth to the feet, then to the legs, the knees, the abdomen, and finally enter the heart through the lower gate of the soul (nafs)—the occult (darkness) gate—and fill the heart. However, the lights of Allah come from above when you perform dhikr, and they enter your heart. This is where the first difference begins.

In a heart that grows increasingly dark, a more powerful form of vices takes effect. These vices will always prevail over the qualities of your spirit. This darkening will increase your disobedience to Allah’s commands and embolden you to commit what He has forbidden.

They say that Transcendental Meditation is a means of relaxation. Since you are engaged in a single thought, and because your concentration is only on that thought, other thoughts can leave you in that short time, such a thing is possible. But you have more stress during this time. They are the vices of the heart getting more concentrated with the incoming darkness of the devil's oppression. Although meditators claim that they are a little relaxed at that time period, they will always avoid telling you the final outcome. Because a relentless stress will surely overwhelm them afterwards and they will be the unhappiest people in the world under the command of the devil. These are unhappy people, but they try to make themselves look happy. They cannot succeed doing this. Because you often see that they get angry and nervous easily, and are more stressed than others.

In some universities around the world, in medical schools, and even in elementary schools, the practice of transcendental meditation and yoga is now being taught to people as a means of stress relief. They promise people happiness, and they do it for money. But people are being deceived and becoming even more unhappy. This situation has resulted in lawsuits several times. "You told us we would be happy, but in practice, we encountered terrible consequences," people sued them in court, but they all got away with small fines.

We can liken the deceitfulness of yoga and meditation to an old story. Imagine a company called “xxx.” But later another company comes along and calls itself “True xxx.” People start thinking, “The latter is the genuine one, and the former is the fake.” Similarly, satanic paths are sometimes presented to people as if they were the truth. These groups sometimes use references from Qur'an in their speeches. And what they say may seem in accordance with the Holy Qur'an. However, they tell a lie at such a crucial point that poor people who do not know the Qur'an cannot discern it, and from that moment on, a turn to the path of darkness begins.  With each passing day, becoming more conditioned upon that false path, these poor people fall into a deception.

People blame others for their unhappiness. But no one is unhappy because of someone else, and no one goes to hell because of someone else. It is only what he does based on the vices of his soul that causes a person to lose degrees. If the degrees he loses are more than the degrees he gains, that person will go to hell. No worship other than dhikr can cleanse the vices in our soul that make us restless and unhappy. No worship can earn us degrees at a level as high as dhikr (the repetition of the name of Allah) earns for us.

Iblis knows very well that dhikr saves a person from the clutches of Satan and uses his tricks to make you turn away from it. See what Allah Almighty says in An-Nûr-21:

An-Nur-21: O you who believe (who are âmenû, who wish their spirits to reach Allah before death), do not follow the footsteps of Satan! And whosoever follows the footsteps of Satan, then surely, he commands (every) abomination and evil (the denial and all that Allah has forbidden). And if it had not been for the Rahmat (light of Mercy) and Fadl (light of virtue) of Allah unto you (if these lights had not be placed into the hearts of your souls), none of you could have ever cleansed their souls, but Allah cleanses the souls of whom He wills and Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

The word "Allah" is such a name that the arrangement of its letters and the different vibration frequencies of each letter form a code. This code, if you have wished to reach Allah, will be the means by which a pair of lights from Allah's presence descend upon your chest: the lights of salawât and rahmat (mercy). If you have pledged allegiance to your religious guide (murshid), two pairs of lights will reach your heart: the lights of salawât and rahmat (mercy), the lights of salawât and fadl (virtue). The lights of Allah creates an effect on you. This effect is the gradual reduction of the diseases in your soul, and the replacement of the turmoils of your inner world with happiness, peace and tranquillity. Remembrance of the name of Allah (dhikr) is the generator of happiness.

It is not possible for anyone to be happy unless this code is used. Our Almighty Lord, the Owner of our hearts, says in Ra'd-28 that dhikr (the repetition of the name of Allah) is necessary for our happiness: 'Those who became amenu (wished to reach Allah before death) and whose hearts have found tranquility in the dhikr (rememberance) of Allah. Now surely in the dhikr (rememberance) of Allah the hearts find tranquility, do they not?'