21:83
and you are the most merciful of the merciful..
Now one could turn “ya arham ar-raahimin” [o most merciful of the merciful] into a remembrance/zikr!…and it would be a tragic truncation of the actual reminder/zikr which is the full verse and cannot be the light and good tiding that the full verse is…when i am the person hurt and wounded by all that appears pleasing and nice but leaves and fails..when i realize that i have put myself at the mercy of powerless and unseeing and unhearing forces and i realize the kind of mercy i really need, the kind of mercy that could suffice my soul, i then am brought to (reminded of) such a One – of endless and unfailing mercy – by these words…then this reminder means something and it does something…take away the part where i recognize how harmed i am and saying only the other half (‘you are most merciful’) loses its context and healing power…
i have yet to find repeating one or more pieces or phrases from the Quran to be as effective and healing as reflecting on the signs as they are presented and explained by the Quran..if i truncate the message into words and formulas, i give priority to words and verbalizations over the message and its truth (which appears in the resonance between meaning and lived experience) and i risk weakening the power and efficacy of the message…maybe..
The Quran as Revelation 