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Supplication in Islam is an act of worship that involves a servant asking and requesting from his Lord. It is one of the best forms of worship that God Almighty loves, and is done purely for Him. It is not permissible for a servant to direct it to anyone other than God Almighty. God Almighty says: “And your Lord says, ‘Call upon Me; I will respond to you.’ Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell [rendered] contemptible.” (Ghafir: 60)

Dhikr (remembrance) is a type of Islamic worship that relies on remembering Allah, as stated in Surah Al-Ahzab: 12: “O you who have believed, remember Allah with much remembrance.” And His statement: “Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding - those who remember Allah while standing, sitting, and [lying] on their sides.” (Al-Imran: 190-191). The basic principle is either mentioning one of Allah’s attributes or praising Allah for the sake of mentioning Him. Remembrance is considered one of the easiest forms of worship. Scholars liken a person's need for remembrance to his need for food and sleep. Remembrance is nourishment for the soul, and the best remembrance is (there is no god but Allah).

The Qur'an, also called the Noble Qur'an, is the miraculous book of God for Muslims. They revere it and believe that it is the word of God, that it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad for clarity and miraculousness, that it is preserved in the hearts and pages from any tampering or distortion, that it is transmitted by continuous narration, that its recitation is an act of worship, and that it is the last of the divinely revealed books after the Scrolls of Abraham, the Psalms, the Torah, and the Gospel.

The Qur'an is the oldest Arabic book and is widely considered the most valuable linguistically, due to its combination of eloquence, clarity, and fluency. The Qur'an has had a significant impact on unifying and developing the Arabic language, its literature, and its morphological and syntactic sciences, as well as establishing, standardizing, and consolidating the foundational building blocks of Arabic grammar. It is a reference and foundation for all the contributions of linguistic giants to the development of the Arabic language, most notably Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, his student Sibawayh, and others. These contributions spanned the ancient and modern periods, all the way to the era of diaspora literature in the modern era, beginning with Ahmad Shawqi, Rashid Salim al-Khoury, Gibran Khalil Gibran, and others who played a major role in reviving the Arabic language and heritage in the modern era.

The credit for unifying the Arabic language goes to the revelation of the Holy Qur'an. Prior to this era, it was not unified, despite its richness and flexibility. This was until the revelation of the Qur'an, which challenged the masses with its eloquence. It bestowed upon the Arabic language a flood of beautiful style, sweet rhyme, and eloquence that even the most eloquent Arabs were incapable of. The Holy Qur'an completely unified the Arabic language and preserved it from fading and extinction, as happened with many other Semitic languages, which became obsolete and disappeared over time, or languages that weakened and declined, thus rendering them unable to keep pace with the changes and tensions experienced by civilization and the peoples of the ancient and modern worlds.

The Qur'an contains 114 surahs (chapters), classified as Meccan and Medinan, according to the place and time of their revelation. Muslims believe that the Qur'an was revealed by God through the Angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of approximately 23 years, from when the Prophet Muhammad reached the age of forty until his death in 11 AH/632 CE. Muslims also believe that the Qur'an was meticulously preserved by the Companions after the revelation was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, who memorized it and recited it to his Companions. They believe that its verses are precise and detailed, and that it addresses all generations throughout all centuries, encompassing all occasions and encompassing all circumstances.

After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an was compiled into a single codex by order of the first Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, based on a suggestion from his companion, Umar ibn al-Khattab. After the death of the second Caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, this copy remained in the possession of Hafsa bint Umar, the Mother of the Believers, until the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, saw the differences in the readings of the Muslims due to their different dialects. He asked Hafsa to allow him to use the Qur'an in her possession, written in the Quraish dialect, as the standard dialect. Uthman ordered the copying of several copies of the Qur'an to standardize the readings and eliminate any discrepancies. These copies were distributed to various provinces, and he kept a copy for himself. These copies are still known as the Uthmanic Codex. Therefore, the current copy of the Qur'an contains the same text copied from the original compiled by Abu Bakr. Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the Prophet Muhammad's miracle to the worlds, and that its verses challenge the world to produce something like it or a surah like it. They also consider it evidence of his prophethood and the culmination of a series of divine messages that began, according to Muslim belief, with the Scrolls of Adam, followed by the Scrolls of Abraham, the Torah of Moses, the Psalms of David, and finally the Gospel of Jesus.