seeking salvation

During the Majlis Zikir today, Ustaz Shafi (above) quoted what Allah mentioned in the Qur’an:


And when My servants ask you [O Muhammad] concerning Me, then
surely I am very near [2:186]

He then stressed on this part of the verse 3 times:

surely I am very near!
surely I am very near!
surely I am very near!

And then he quoted [50:16] :
Closer to him than the veins in his neck!

And that was all it took to make many who were present drown in