My grandfather taught me dhikr when I was little and when he died last year I started doing it again, but now when I repeat La ilaha illa Allah I feel like I'm dissolving and it scares me.
More people experience this than they realize.
The practice is working exactly as intended, but the ego's dissolution frightens the unprepared heart.
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