ALMISKEENAH

 

 

Juma’ah Mubarak Two.

Du’a 

Our Du’a is our link to Almighty Allah Ta’ala. His Messenger, our Beloved and Most Esteemed Prophet, SallAllahu alaihi wasallam, has left us the greatest spiritual gift with his Du’a. May we devote more time calling on the Only Ones Who truly hear our supplications.

And your Lord says: Call upon Me, I will answer you. (40:60)

And when My servants ask you concerning Me, then surely I am very near; I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My call and believe in Me that they may walk in the right way. (2:186)

The Prophet SallAllahu alaihi wasallam said that Du’a is the essence of worship, and that there is nothing that is more honourable, or dearer to Allah Ta’ala than Du’a.

O Allah, to You I complain of my weakness, of my helplessness, and my lowliness before men. O Most Merciful of the merciful, You are the Lord of the weak, and You are my Lord. Into whose hands will You entrust me? Unto some stranger who will mistreat me? Or to an enemy who dominates me? If You are not angry with me I care not, but Your favouring help will be easier for me. I take refuge in the light of Your Countenance by which the darkness is illuminated, and the things of this world and the next are rightly ordered, lest I become the object of Your wrath and anger. To You alone belongs the right to blame and to chastise until Your pleasure is met. There is no power and no might except through You.

O Allah, you hear me and se me and know everything that I reveal or conceal. None of my affairs are hidden from You. I am person in distress, a needy person, a beggar, a fearful person. I confess my shortcomings. I entreat You like a humble needy person. I beseech You like a sinful lowly person. I ask You like a person in tribulation whose neck bows before You; who cries in front of You; whose whole body trembles before You. O Allah! Do not leave me frustrated in my prayer, and be the Most Merciful and the Most Gracious to me. O the best of those who are beseeched! O the best of those who give!

O Allah, I ask You to make me a lover of You, a lover of everyone who loves You, and a lover of any action that may bring me closer to loving You.

O Allah, I ask You to make me loved by You, Your Angels, prophets, and all Your creatures.

O Allah, make my love for You dearer to me than my own self and my own kin, and dearer to me than my own wealth and my own children, and dearer to em than cool water given to a parched mouth.

O Allah, bless me with the joy of good hearing and good sight. And I ask You to support me with victory over those who do me injustice and to avenge me from them.

O Allah, I ask You to make the last part of my life that best of it, and to make the best of my deeds the final ones, and to make the best of my days the day on which I meet You.

O Allah, make me patient and thankful; and make me small in my own eyes, but big in the eyes of people. O Lord, forgive me, grant me Your Mercy, and guide me to the way which is most upright.

O Allah, shower Your grace upon Muhammad, his kin, companions, wives and posterity.

O Allah, I ask You to give me the most bounteous share of my sustenance when I grow old and my life comes closer to the end.

O Allah, I ask You to guide me to extend to You the best of entreating and the best of supplications; and to guide me to achieve the best of success and get the best of reward. Support me with resolve, enhance the record of my good deeds, verify my faith, elevate my grade, accept my prayers, and forgive my sins. And I ask You to place me in Jannatul Firdous. Ameen.

O Allah, favour me with a large share of whatever good descends from You, whatever grace that is granted by You, whatever righteousness is bestowed by You, whatever bounties are spread by You, whatever sins are forgiven by You, and whatever shortcomings are covered by You. O Allah, in Whose Hand is my forelock, the One Who knows my afflictions and my needs, the One Who sees my poverty and my deprivation, O Lord, I ask You, by the Rights and Sacredness that belongs to You, and by the Greatest of Your Attributes and Names, to make my nights and days filled with remembering and serving You, and to guide me to actions which would be acceptable to You.

O Allah, because of my hope in You forgiving my sins and overlooking my wrong doings, I am tempted to ask from You what I do not deserve. So here I am submitting my prayers and supplications to You with a feeling of safety and closeness, knowing that You have been Benevolent to me, while I have been transgressing against myself in matters pertaining to my relationship with You. You have been befriending me with Your blessings and bounties while I have been antagonizing You with my disobedience. But my trust in You has encouraged me to resort to You and ask You to bestow Your grace and benevolence upon me. Verily, You are the Best to accept repentance and You are the Most Merciful. There is no god but You. You are the Initiator. Before You there was none. And You are the Eternal Who is never unmindful. You are the Ever-Living Who dies not. You are the Creator of whatever may be seen or unseen. Every day in Divine Splendour You are. O Allah, Your Reach is above all things in mercy and knowledge. O Most Benevolent, Most Merciful, O Most Clement, Most Generous. O Allah, You are the One and Only, the Eternal. The Absolute. You are the Living and the Giver of Life. You are the Living and Ultimate Controller and Sustainer of all things. There is no god but You, O our Lord. We are Your bondsmen and we are serving in Your Way. So make it easy for us to follow the way that leads to every good.

O Allah, deny me not the good of whatever You have because of my own evils. O Allah I ask You to grant me a secure living together with a bountiful sustenance, and to guide me to righteous actions.

O Allah, I ask You to raise me high in esteem, remove my burdens, purify my heart, guard my chastity, and forgive my sins. And I ask You to place me in the topmost stations of Paradise.

Exalted is He; for Whom Dignity is a cloak and Whose words are Dignified.

Exalted is He; for Whom Glory is a garment and Whose Bounties are Glorified.

Exalted is He; the One and Only to Whom all Exaltation is due.

Exalted is He; Granter of bounties and blessings.

Exalted is He; Possessor of all Glory and all Generosity.

Exalted is He; Whose Knowledge encompasses everything.

O Allah, You are Verily the Most Worthy of remembrance, the Most Deserving of worship, and the Best Source of needed support. You are the Kindest Sovereign, the Most Gracious one in giving. You are the Sovereign, with no partner to You. You are the One, with no equal. Everything will perish except Your own Face. Only with Your leave shall You be obeyed; and no act of disobedience to You shall ever escape Your knowledge. When You are obeyed You respond with thankfulness; and when You are disobeyed You respond with forgiveness.

"Exalted be Allah. All praise is due to Allah. Allah is the Most Great. There is no strength or might other than what is given by Allah": May this declaration match the number of what Allah has created and the number of what Allah creates; the weight of what Allah has created and the weight of what Allah creates; the fullness of what Allah created and the fullness of what Allah creates; the fullness of His heavens and the fullness of His earth; the totality of all the afore-said and the multiples thereof; the number of His creatures, the weight if His Throne, the infinite limits of His Mercy and the ink of His words. May this declaration be such as to befit the extent of Allah’s pleasure, and may it continue to be echoed until Allah is pleased; and may it be such as to befit the continuity of Allah’s pleasure and match the number of instances in which Allah’s creatures have remembered Him throughout the entire times past ,and the number of instances in which His creatures shall remember Him throughout the entire times coming; year after year, month after month, week after week, day after day, hour after hour, breath after breath; from time immemorial to the infinite end of time; from the beginning of the world to the unending limits of the Hereafter; from the Beginning that has no beginning to the End that has no end.

O Allah, to You I complain of a soul commanding to evil, rushing to offenses, eager to disobey You, and exposing itself to Your anger. It takes me on the roads of disasters, it makes me the easiest of perishers before You; many its pretexts, drawn out its expectations; when evil touches it, it is anxious, when good touches it, grudging; inclining to sport and diversion, full of heedlessness and inattention, it hurries me to misdeeds and makes me delay repentance.

O Allah, I complain to You of an enemy who misguides me and a Shaytan who leads me astray. He has filled my breast with tempting thoughts, and his suggestions have encompassed my heart. He supports caprice against me, embellishes for me the love of this world, and separates me from obedience and proximity!

O Allah, to You I complain of a heart that is hard, turned this way and that by tempting thoughts, clothed in rust and the seal, and of an eye too indifferent to weep in fear of You and eagerly seeking that which gladdens it!

O Allah, there is no force and no strength except in Thy power, and no deliverance for me from the detested things of this world save through Thy preservation. So I ask You by Thy far-reaching wisdom and Thy penetrating will not to let me expose myself to other than Thy munificence and not to turn me into a target for trials! Be for me a helper against enemies, a coverer of shameful things and faults, a protector against afflictions, a preserver against acts of disobedience! By Thy clemency and mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

O Allah! Inspire me with good conduct and save me from the evil of my selfishness.

O Allah! I ask You to guide me to the doing of good deeds and abstaining from bad deeds and love those who are humble, and to forgive me and show mercy to me. And if You wish a trial for Your servants, take me to You before falling into it.

O Allah, cause Your love to exceed all loves in me, and cause Your fear to be the greatest of all fears in me.

The life of this world is but play and amusement: and if ye believe and guard against Evil, He will grant you your recompense, and will not ask you of your possessions.(47:36)

O Allah! O Controller of the Hearts! Keep my heart firm in Your religion; keep it contented with Your worship.

O Allah! You are my Lord. There is no deity except You. You are my Creator and I am your creature. I try to keep my covenant with You and to live in the hope of Your promise as well as I can. I seek refuge in You from my one evil deeds. I acknowledge Your favours to me; and I acknowledge my sins. Forgive me my sins, for there is no one who can forgive sins except You.

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from a decline in Your favour, from a change in Your protection, from Your sudden punishment and all Your displeasure.

O Allah! I ask You for health, for integrity, for good character, and that I may be pleased with my portion.

O Allah! Grant me soundness of belief, goodness of character, forgiveness of my sins, and Your eternal pleasure in the Hereafter.

O Allah, I beg of You all good things whose treasures are in Your Hands and I seek Your protection from all evil things whose stores are in Your Hands and from the mischief of things whose strings You hold in Your Hands.

O Allah, You are disposed to forgive sins and love the habit of forgiving faults so pardon us all.

O Allah, Your mercy and knowledge comprehend everything, so forgive those who have repented and followed Your path and save them from the punishment of Hell.

O Allah, help me in remembering You and being grateful to You and worshipping You well.

O Allah! You are my Lord! None has the right to be worshipped but you. You created me and I am your slave, and I am faithful to my covenant and my promise as much as I can. I seek refuge with You from all the evil I have done. I acknowledge before You all the blessings You have bestowed upon me, and I confess to You all my sins. So I entreat You to forgive my sins, for nobody can forgive sins except You. I seek the forgiveness of Allah the Mighty, Whom there is none worthy except Him, the Living, The Eternal, and I repent unto Him.

O Allah bless our master Muhammad in quantity great as Your forbearance, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as Your knowledge, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as Your words, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as Your blessing, bless our master Muhammad with the capacity of Your heavens and bless Sayyidina Muhammad with the capacity of Your earth, bless our master Muhammad with the capacity of Your Throne, bless our master Muhammad with the weight of Your Throne, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as what Your pen writes in the Mother of the Book, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as what You created in the seven heavens, and bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as what You will create in them until the Day of Resurrection every day a thousand times.

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as every drop which falls from Your heavens to Your earth from the day You created the world to the Day of Resurrection on every day a thousand times.

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as whoever says ‘Subhanallah’, ‘la ilaha illa’llah’, ‘Allahu akbar’, and exalts You from the day You created the world to the Day of Resurrection a thousand times in every day.

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as their breaths and words and bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as every breath You created in them from the day You created the world until the Day of Resurrection a thousand times every day.

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as the running clouds and bless our master Muhammad in quantity as great as the scattering winds from the Day You created the world until the Day of Resurrection a thousand times in every day.
(Dalail)

 

All good is from Allah Ta’ala whereas mistakes are from this humble speck. May Allah Ta’ala Bless all readers, bringing you all closer to Him and His Rasul SallAllahu alaihi wasallam. Ameen.