The importance of zikr (remembrance of Allah)

"The person gets the noor of this ilm through mujahida. Imagine if you try to fly an aircraft without fuel. The aircraft is going to crash. This is what happens to us. When we try to acquire knowledge of the deen, also trying to keep our parents and family happy, all of a sudden we feel like we are crashing. You are not going to be able to do this mujahida if you do not do this zikr. If you don't give the fuel you need you are going to crash and everyone else on the aircraft is also going to crash with you. Zikr is the ruh of everything, it is the ruh of ibadat, the ruh of ilm, the ruh of khidmat."
(Alimah Sobia Hasan)