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Du’a
is the essence of worship. (Anas, may Allah be pleased with him related that
the Prophet said this as reported in Tirmidhi).
The
Prophet said: Supplications (Duas) of three persons are not refused: a
fasting man when breaking the fast, a just ruler, and an oppressed person,
Allah's blessings be upon him. (Abu Huraira in Tirmidhi).
No one makes a Dua without Allah giving him
what he asks for, or keeping away from him a similar amount of evil,
provided he does not ask for something sinful, or for breaking family ties
(Jabir related this as the Prophet saying: Tirmidhi).
For a number
of non-Arabic speaking Muslims, Duas are sometimes perceived as the good
Arabic words Imams utter after prayers. They usually resort to simply
repeating "Ameen" after everyone else, without understanding what they are
asking Allah for.
Other non-Arabic speaking Muslims may try to
memorize some of the major Duas in Arabic and can and do understand what's
being said.
But one thing that's often forgotten about
Dua is that it's direct communication with Allaah. And Allaah is
multilingual. He actually created them all. He knows all languages, whether
it's the specific dialect of your village back home of the slangy street
talk of urban India.
Allaah also knows what's hidden in the deep
recesses of our hearts. Those feelings of pain, anguish, resentment, love,
hatred, bitterness, longing, etc. that we so successfully hide from everyone
else, including our closest family members and friends.
So why not let it all out. Why not let
Allaah be your "therapist". Let your prayer mat be your "couch" while you
reveal and ask the One who is in control, Who knows you better than you know
yourself for all that you want.
There are Duas that are definitely part of
the Sunnah, which you can and should use during Laylatul Qadr.
For example in this Hadith: It is narrated
from Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, that she said: I said: 'O
Messenger of Allah, if I know what night is the Night of Qadr what should I
say?.' He said: 'Say: O Allah you are embodiment of forgiveness and you love
to pardon so pardon me.' [Ahmad, Ibn Majah, Tirmidhi]
However, Dua cannot be done in a distracted
manner, as the Prophet has said in a Hadeeth narrated by Abu Hurairah: Make
Dua and be assured of being answered, and know that Allaah does not answer a
Dua from a careless heart which is not concentrating (Tirmidhi).
Here are some examples of personal, relevant
Duas you can make in these remaining days of Ramadan, Insha Allaah: al-hamdu
lillaahi rabb il-'aalameen, wa as-salaatu wa as-salaam 'alaa ashraf
il-ambiyaa'i wa al-mursaleen, nabiyyinaa Muhammad, wa 'alaa aalihi wa
sahbihi ajma'een.
1. O Allaah, please forgive me for all of
the bad that I've done, and I continue to do. You are so Merciful and kind,
please forgive me, and help me stay away from all that's wrong. It's so hard
for me, and I'm so weak but You are the Strong. Please increase me in
sincerity.
2. O Allaah, I beg You, please guide my
parents and my brothers toward You. Do not let them die without realizing
who their Lord is. Let them see the truth and help them resist the pressure
of friends who try to turn them away from You.
3. O Allaah, bless those fine human beings
with your bounties whose kind heart reaches out to their Non-Muslim
neighbors throughout the world.
4. O Allaah, please guide my neighbors,
toward You. They are such decent, good people, and they are so good to us.
They have never opposed us in our Deen, and You have seen how they have been
so open to us. Please guide them to the right path.
5. O Allaah, make every single aspect of my
life be for You and in service of Your Creation. Please remove all false
intentions that I have.
6. O Allaah, save humanity from being its
own enemy. Protect Your creation from oppression. Save the people of
Afghanistan, Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya and Iraq from internal and
external oppressors and give them justice. Protect us all from violence,
fear and danger, You are our Protector.
7. Ya Allaah, let me love You as You
deserved to be loved, and let me fear You as You deserve to be feared, and
let me leave this world serving Your creation for Your sake.
8. O Allaah, increase me in knowledge, but
let this knowledge be with sincerity, not seeking fame, glory, status,
material wealth. Let this knowledge serve Your cause in a way that You
accept, and let it benefit humanity.
9. O Allaah, please guide my children and
all childrens. They are surrounded by so much temptation and Haram, protect
them my Lord from all of the evil influences that are around them. Give them
friends who will strengthen their faith and help them stay on the Straight
Path.
10. O Allaah, guide me to seek my knowledge
of You and this blessed Deen (religion) from those who are sincere, who
possess the correct Islamic knowledge, who are moderate and gentle, who are
not harsh or impatient with me, and who understand where I'm coming from, my
situation as a Muslim in this country, living in this world today.
11. O Allaah, please help me stay away from
Haram in achieving the best of this world.
12. O Allaah, don't let me ever turn away
from You, no matter how many trials and difficulties You test me with. Let
these difficulties serve to make me a stronger Muslim and more sincere to
You.
13. O Allaah, bless our scholars and leaders
who are striving to establish Islaam in this world on the balanced path of
Your beloved Prophet(saws).
14. O Allaah, bless all of those who have
taught me about You and Islaam, from little Ubaidullah at the Islamic
International school, who taught me the importance of being patient with
little kids, to All our Shaykhs, who, taught me the importance of speaking
the Truth, no matter how much others dislike it.
15. O Allaah, give me the ability to forgive
all those who have hurt me in word and deed, especially my Friend ......,
who has ignored every attempt I have made to reconcile with him. And Please
Oh Allaah, join our hearts.
16. O Allaah, please get me out of this
horrible debt that is burdening me. Please give me means that are Halaal to
get out of this as soon as possible, so that I can face You on the Day of
Judgment free of all debts.
17. O Allaah, open a way for our Brothers to
marry as soon as possible. Let them marry a sister who is sincere and
devoted to You and who is compatible with them.
18. O Allaah, open a way for sisters to marry as
soon as possible. Let them marry a brother who is sincere and devoted to You
and who is compatible with them.
19. O Allaah, please grant my Brothers and his
wife healthy children. And they Insha Allah would make such great Muslim
parents. Please grant them children who will grow up to be a source of Mercy
for them.
20. O Allaah, help orphans and poor wherever
they are, but especially right now in Afghanistan. Give me the means and
ability to do whatever I can for them.
21. O Allaah, guide and protect our
teenagers who need Your Help and Guidance from all of the temptations of
sex, drugs, alcohol and all of the other Harams in our society.
22. O Allaah, cleanse my heart of the
sicknesses of arrogance and pride and let me die as one of the sincere,
humble Muslims.
23. O Allaah, all of my brothers and sisters
who are suffering for Your sake through torture, violence, in jails, etc.,
around the world please forgive their sins and grant them paradise.
24. O Allaah, I have been so impatient and
angry in my behavior, please give me patience and help me control my anger
for Your sake.
25. O Allaah, open a way for me to make Hajj
as soon as possible, so that I can fulfill my obligation to You.
26. O Allaah, give one who is not well and
much in trouble because of their sickness. Please give them patience and let
their sickness be a way for their sins to be forgiven.
27. O Allaah, lift the veils from the eyes
of those who have been deceived into seeing Islaam as something bad because
of ignorance and media stereotypes.
28. O Allaah, bring all humans closer to You
and each other. Please do not make us Muslims a test for them with our
misrepresentation of Islaam because of our bad behavior.
39. O Allaah, help me to stop all my bad
habits.
30. O Allaah, please help all our brothers
to give up smoking. And make it easy for them to realise that it is Haraam
they think it's hard to give up smoking, but only You can make it easy.
31. O Allaah! Give us a share of Your fear
to prevent us from disobeying You, of obedience to guide us for the way to
Your paradise and of conviction to relieve us of the burdens of life.
32. O Allaah! Let us enjoy our hearing,
sight and powers throughout our life span and make it a heritage afterwards.
Direct our revenge towards those who were unjust to us and help us against
our enemies. Let us not suffer a calamity concerning our religion and make
us not take this world as our greatest concern or a goal for our knowledge.
Do not punish us for our sins through someone who fears You not and will
have no pity on us.
33. O Allaah! We ask You to be pleased with
us, reward is with the Paradise and we seek Your refuge from Your anger and
punishment of the Fire.
34. O Allaah! We call You to get into
paradise and make us closer to it by any act or saying and protect us from
Fire and from any act or saying that makes us closer to it.
35. O Allaah! We ask You everything that is good, in
this world and the Hereafter, whether we know it or not; and seek Your
protection from everything that is bad, in this world and the Hereafter,
whether we know it or not.
36. O Allaah! We ask You of the best things
asked by Your servant and Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Your
pious servants. We also seek Your protection from the worst things from
which Your Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and pious servants sought
Your protection.
37. O Allaah! Forgive us because You love
forgiving and You are All-forgiving.
38. O Allaah! Relieve the distressed ones of
their worries and the oppressed ones of their troubles. Settle the debts for
the indebted persons and give cure to the sick, whether they are blood
brothers or brothers in Islam.
39. O Allaah! We ask You at this instant not
to let a sin unforgiven, a distress unrelieved, an illness unhealed or a
handicapped without relief, a dead without mercy or a debt unsettled. We ask
You to guide those who have gone astray and to defeat our enemies and accept
repentances and to leave no learned as ignorant and help the (Mujahideen)
fighters in Your way, and make our sons good believers and cover our effects
and make the truth clear.
40. O Allaah by Your mercy! Make things easy
for us and help us do anything that pleases Your and is good for us in this
world and the Hereafter.
41. O Allaah! Set right our religion that
guards our souls from sins, make this world where we live better for us and
make the Hereafter to where we return better for us, let life be a cause for
more good and let death put an end to any evil that may befall on us.
42. O Allaah! Give us piety and purify our
souls. You are Master and the Lord of souls.
43. O Allah we seek Your guard from vain
knowledge, lack of Your fearing and from having an unsatisfiable soul and an
unanswered supplication.
44. O Allah! Repel tyrants by tyrants and
keep us safe from their tyranny.
45. O Allah! Purify our hearts, cover our
defects, forgive our sins and let the last of our deeds be the best.
46. O Allah! Let us be satisfied with the
Halaal (permissible) and dispense with the Haraam (not permissible). Enrich
us with Your favors so that we won't be in need of anyone else. AAMEEN.
These duas are being written just as
guidelines. Please adopt, modify, and write your own duas. If you like share
those with others in your friend circle. The point is to get into talking to
our Lord directly, in our style, in our language. While talking to Him while
our forehead on His earth, some time we may reach the level in which our
words and mind may give way to the reflective heart which may help us talk
to our Lord. It is sajdah where a servants talks to his Lord.
Please don't say that Allaah knows what you
need. Yes. He does. But He also loves to hear from you. Consider this
Hadeeth: Abu Hurairah related that the Prophet(saws) said: Allaah is angry
with those who do not ask Him for anything (Tirmidhi).
And
I pray to Allah to give us the right knowledge and Guide us and Grant the
Ummah to loving the truth and its people. {Aameen}
May Allah (swt) shower His Choicest
Blessings on the entire Muslim Ummah and help us in our mission of bearing
witness to the truth of Islam before all mankind. Aameen
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