Allāho shāhidī, “God who witnesses me.”
Allāho maʿī, “God who is with me.”
Having recited this ẕikr, either aloud or mentally, the worshipper proceeds to meditate upon some verse or verses of the Qurʾān. Those recommended for the Qādirīyah Faqīrs by Maulavī Shāh Walīyu ʾllāh are the following, which we give as indicating the line of thought which is considered most devotional and spiritual by Muslim mystics:—
1. Sūratu ʾl-Ḥadīd [(lvii.), 3]:—
“He (God) is first. He is last. The Manifest, and the Hidden, and who knoweth all things.”
2. Sūratu ʾl-Ḥadīd [(lvii.), 4]:—
“He (God) is with you wheresoever ye be.”
3. Sūratu Qāf [(l.), 16]:—
“We (God) are closer to him (man) than his neck-vein.”
4. Sūratu ʾl-Baqarah [(ii.), 109]:—