Worshipping God is manifested in various aspects, as remembrance (mentioning of God) is a special feature of it; for this, the remembrance of God is one of the clearest examples of worship. As many as 15 verses of the Qur’an have commanded Muslims to “Mentioning of Allah”, or “Mentioning of the Names of Allah”. The Qur’an’s commandment to the remembrance of God did not take on a unique and special format, unlike prayer in the prophetic tradition. The prophet used to continuously follow it, but he never made obligatory a special format of remembrance for the believers, while mentioning God in different ways. For believers, one of the most beautiful manifestations of a love-based relation with God and the most basic way is remembrance, i.e., using the tongue and heart to mention divine names through a singing tone, and keeping the very flower of the soul fresh under the rain of mentioning of God. Whatever enlivens the name and mentioning of God is remembrance, either in an ordinary form as common remembrance among mystics, or common thoughts among scholars. Worshipping God, as stated, has different facets and that remembrance takes a special form. Although each special worship like prayer, fasting, almsgivings, Khums (one-fifth tax), Haj, enjoying the good and forbidding the wrong, invocation, etc. is considered a type of remembrance, the very term remembrance itself is a special worship with its special effects which results in nearness to God. This article aimed to raise such issues as the importance of remembrance from the view of the Qur’an and holy narratives, then investigating the types of remembrance, the examples of remembrance, the reasons why remembrance is conditional on some Imams’ remembrance, life-giving remembrance, emphasis on remembrance by the infallible, etc. In the end, the article describes the effects of mentioning God by using Qur’anic verses and narratives by the Imams (Peace be upon them.
