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📌They see.” In another tradition, we read that Imam Ali (AS) has said: “In every place that you remember God, He will be with you.” Imam Ali (AS) says: “Remember Allah Almighty frequently when you go to marketplaces and when people are engaged in businesses, for it (the remembrance of God) is a ransom for sins and an increase in good deeds, and you are not recorded among the unmindful.”[^7] There are many traditions in this relation but to sum it up, one can say that although remembering God is necessary under all circumstances, it is more recommended in the following conditions: 1- On the marketplace, a tradition reads: “A marketplace is the field of Iblis, where he comes with his banner, sets his throne, and spreads his children.”[^8] 2- In the warfront; Imam Ali (AS) has been reported as saying: “Whenever you face your enemy in war, speak little and remember God frequently.”[^9] 3- When you are commanded by God or when you have been prohibited from something as narrated by Imam Sadiq (AS) [^10] 4- In secret and concealment When man remembers God, his Lord too will remember him.

Beyond doubt, when God remembers someone, it will entail many benefits for him. In this relation, the Messenger of Allah (SAW) has been reported as saying: “Whoever wishes to know his position with God, he should see what the position of God with him is.”[^11] God has said: “I am the companion of one who remembers Me.” ^12 Imam Baqir (AS) has been reported by Abu Hamzah ath-Thumali as saying: “As long as a believer remembers God, he is continuously in a state of prayer, whether he is standing, sitting or lying in bed, for God has said: “Those who remember Allah standing, sitting and lying on their sides...

[^13] ” [^14] The Messenger of Allah (SAW) has been reported by Imam Sadiq (AS) as saying: “There is no people that gather together in a meeting and do not remember Allah and do not pray Him to send His blessing on their prophet, except that that meeting shall be to them regret and woe.” ^15 Inadvertence Inadvertence or heedlessness, the opposite of remembrance, is prohibited by God in the Holy Quran, blamed in traditions and reproached by wits.

In a verse, God says: “…and be not of the heedless ones.” [^16] In other verses, God says: “Most surely in the variation of the night and the day, and what Allah has created in the heavens and the earth, there are signs for a people who guard (against evil).

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