Though I had extensively covered this in The Mystery of Man, due to its importance I want to talk about the necessity of dhikr here also.

Let it be known without doubt that religion is a symbolic narration founded completely upon scientific principles.

All laws and regulations in the religion of Islam – the Quran and hadith – have come to provide the necessities of both this life and the afterlife. When man complies with these proposed laws, he will be protected from many things that may harm him in the future. Man’s life is structured by way of the brain. Everything that transpires from man is by way of his brain. In fact, even the ‘spirit,’ which is the body of the afterlife, is uploaded by the brain!

The meanings denoted by the Names of Allah become manifest in the human brain. Man’s consciousness may only know and attain certainty (yakeen) of Allah dependent on the capacity of his brain. This being the case, to understand the importance of dhikr, we must first grasp how the brain works and what kind of activity takes place in the brain during the practice of dhikr.

The brain is an organic structure composed of billions of cells that produce bioelectrical energy. It then converts this into radial energy and uploads the meanings that form within itself to the structure we call the spirit, while also emanating it to its surrounding. Generally, the brain works at an efficiency level in the single digits due to the influences it receives at inception. For this reason, most people that we know will have a ‘typical’ existence.

But this capacity can be increased!

The importance of dhikr was already explained in the world of science ten years before I provided information regarding this topic. The excerpts below prove my point:

From an article titled, ‘The West was Late to Discover the Power of Dhikr!’ in the 1994 publication of the Turkish Magazine NOKTA.^[1]

 

Did you the know the views by John Horgan published in the January 1994 edition of the Scientific American under the article named, ‘Fractured Functions’ was initially expressed by Ahmed Hulusi in 1986?

It seems we still need time to get over our inferiority complex when it comes to scientific discoveries. Instead of taking heed of the view of Turkey’s own thinkers, we wait for the notion to gain credibility in the Western world. And sometimes we encounter surprising coincidences, as with the Ahmed Hulusi example.

In his article ‘Fractured Functions’, John Horgan explores the answer for the question, ‘Does the brain have a supreme integrator?’ and presents various theories based on certain experiments conducted in 1993. However, Ahmed Hulusi seems to have already answered this question in 1986 in his books, ‘The Mystery of Man – In the Light of Religion and Science’ and ‘The Power of Prayer – The Art of Channeling Brainwaves through Dhikr’.

In his article John Horgan talks about an experiment where volunteers are given a list of nouns and are asked to read these nouns aloud, proposing a verb for each noun they read. For example, when reading the noun ‘dog,’ the verb ‘bark’ may be suggested. This experiment showed increased neural activity in different regions of the brain, but when the task was repeated with the same list a number of times the neural activity shifted to other regions of the brain. When the volunteers were given a new list of nouns the activity was seen to increase again and shift back to the first areas.

In his book, ‘Mystery of Man’ written in 1986, under the chapter titled, ‘Dhikr: The Most Important Practice in the World’, Ahmed Hulusi says the following in regards to this topic:

“Of the human brain, comprised of approximately 14 billion cells, only a very small region becomes activated with the rays it receives during birth. After this, new exterior effects cannot bring about new activations. External effects after birth cannot activate new cell groups in the brain. It can only enhance the capacity determined at birth. But this does not necessarily mean the inactivated regions of the brain are meant to remain inert forever.

When you say the word ‘Allah’ for example, a flow of bioelectrical energy occurs among the cell groups that correspond to the meaning of this name. Essentially, all functions in the brain are merely bioelectrical activities among various cell groups. Different cell groups are involved in this bioelectrical flow depending on different meanings. Resultantly, innumerous meanings are spawned from the dynamics of this activity…”

In his article ‘Fractured Functions’ John Horgan refers to the same topic in the following way:

“The experiment suggests that one part of the brain handles the short-term memory requiring verbal invention and another part takes over once the task has become automatic. In other words, memory might be subdivided not only according to its content, but also according to its function.”

Ahmed Hulusi’s answer to this, again from the Mystery of Man, is as follows:

“When one does dhikr, that is, when one repeats a word whose meaning is known to pertain to Allah, a bioelectrical flow takes place in the brain, which then gets uploaded to one’s magnetic body in the form of a type of energy. When one continues to repeat this word and thus the meaning that correlates to it, the bioelectrical flow is strengthened and begins to spread to other cells nearby, hence increasing one’s brain capacity.”

 

As a result, we have two sources of information in regards to the science of dhikr. One shared by Ahmed Hulusi in 1986, and one shared eight years after by John Horgan in an internationally well known science magazine. Before we grip onto what the West has to say about this, I suggest we re-read the works of Ahmed Hulusi.

The following is an excerpt from John Horgan’s article ‘Fractured Funcions’ in the December 1993 edition of Scientific American.