Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Du’a is not to Dictate Orders to Allah

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My dear respected brothers and sisters our difference.

Allah subhanaw taala brings us together here before the month of

Ramadan begins.

Mashallah, we've had a number of inspirational

statements from our two previous speakers as well may Allah

subhanho wa Taala grant us the ability to be well rounded. And to

get the best out of the month of Ramadan.

You see, generally the word storm is a negative term, you don't want

to be in a storm. And the storm is brewing you want to get out, you

want to get shelter, you want to get to safety and you want to get

to refuge. But I think there's probably no better word than to

describe Ramadan with a, an absolute storm of blessings. And

that's a stone you don't want to run away from. You want to be

immersed in that storm. And you want to be fully immersed in that

because the barchart and the blessings of this month are so

amazing. As highlighted in a single Hadith, let's just say

there's a person who decides that he doesn't want to fast today,

because he's got football today.

Or somebody's at work, and they have to take a client out for

lunch. And it'd be weird, like, you know, to get them to eat and

I'm not eating. So they decide that it's a very important meeting

at work because I'm in corporate London, right. And this should

justify for it because I have to earn a living, I'm just

justifying. See how my mind works.

So he decides not to fast. And then after a after Ramadan, they

feel guilty, so they decide

to fast every single day out of the year. Aside from the five days

where you can't fast. The hadith mentions that they would not be

able to get the same attain the same reward is that one day that

was missed. It's just the whole concentration, every moment is so

powerful, that it can turn an absolute sinner into great Willie

of Allah, if you just get it right. Allah just wants any excuse

during the month of Ramadan. And one of the best ways to express

that with Allah. But one of the best ways to connect with Allah

during the month of Ramadan is the topic that I've been given which

is dua

which is

now

unfortunately, many of us don't make dua anymore.

Let's be honest, I mean, until I didn't do this myself, I was in

the same boat, I'm still kind of in the same boat, but

how many of us have

remember reading

the etiquette of Doha anywhere that they can recall? What are the

etiquette of making dua? What are the principles? What are the

guidelines? What is recommended by the Prophet salallahu ideas? And

what are the etiquette that we can glean from the Quran and from the

Hadith about the best way to get our door as accepted? When's the

last time do we remember actually reading some kind of some kind of

guidance in that regard and and using that guidance.

That is the biggest reason why our doors are not being accepted. And

we're not having a good experience in that regard. That's what I

think anyway.

Do ours have the is just like with everything else for our Salah to

be valid and accepted, divinely, and also juridically there are

rules and regulations that have to be fulfilled, and the better we

are at them.

Then that is how much more acceptance they will gain and how

much of a blessing it will give us. Likewise, when it comes to

prayer and Doha as well as the same kind of thing.

Unfortunately, today, we don't make dua anymore. I mean, even

those of us who raise their hands and say, Oh Allah give me this and

I want this and I've got an interview tomorrow, I want to be

successful. I've got that project tomorrow, I want to get that

contract. I want to get those grades I want to get that place in

Imperial College or wherever it is, you know, I want to get that

job. I want to get married to that that guy or you know, I want to do

this or I want to do that whatever it is. This is how we do it. But

we're dictating to Allah Allah when you give me this, it's just

like a shopping list. It's really unfortunate that that's how it's

become. It's become like a shopping list as though God will

do our bidding. So we just make a whole list of things and he will

just do that.

You know, when I discovered that, what do I really meant I did a I

read a book by shakable has an idea

Another way, it's essentially the way he it's just a very small,

it's actually a very small book. It's what he considers to be like

a Syrah of the prophetic dua sera through the prophetic dua. It's

essentially just an analysis of the way the Prophet sallallahu

Sallam made dua. Now you have to understand what is coming together

here. Allah, our divine supreme Lord and Creator, who is the

source of any good that comes into this world. He is responsible for

us being in the world in the first place. And he is responsible for

our upkeep and our continuation and endurance in this world. And

anything that comes comes from Him. So He is the one to call out

to

the one who knows the most, the one who is his most beloved, is

the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there is nobody who knows

the prophets, Allah is more than that.

Who knows Allah subhanaw taala more than the Prophet salallahu

Salam. On top of that, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam knows

the best way to express his needs. Because he is the most eloquent of

Arabic speakers, if not the most eloquent speaker in the world ever

to have lived. He says, I have been ot to German, I'll tell him.

I have been given this ability of comprehensive statements. So

you've got a person who knows Allah more than anyone else, who

is also Beloved of Allah. So it's a beloved speaking to his lover.

And it's the most eloquent one. So can you imagine how powerful those

words will be? Do you think you could get any words that would be

more powerful than that? That's basically what is embodied within

the prophetic dua. He knew what he was saying. He knew what Allah

subhanho wa Taala what makes his mercy flow, what starts his

blessings to shower down upon us, the prophets, Allah some knew

about that. And you see the Prophet salallahu Salam and the

way he sets the scene. He hardly ever just jumps into a door and

says, Oh Allah, give me this and give me that and give me this and

give me that. He always starts off by setting the scene Allahumma

interrupt be La Ilaha, Illa and halacha. And he will do Khurana

Allah, Arctic or whatever they must not art. This is obvious. All

of this stuff is obvious. Oh Allah. You are my Lord. Isn't that

obvious?

You're the one who created me. I am your servant. All of these are

obvious facts. There's no denying them, not by the Prophet

sallallahu sallam was the greatest believer. But all of this he knows

this is what creates, this is what begins to invoke the mercy of

Allah subhanaw taala. So that's how he starts. You see his dua

outside of thought if after he's been literally evicted, thrown

out, stoned, so that he's bleeding after he'd gone there on his that

our mission and it comes out and the DUA there. Oh Allah in the

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nurse. He goes and he starts expressing his humility. This is

because the prophets of Allah is a new word. The nature of DUA and

supplication was, it wasn't just barking orders. It was an

expression of servitude. That's why if you look at a pinata Illa

Allah Eskandari. He has a wonderful one of his one of his

aphorisms is laughter Jarrell bought a burqa taller than lil

atai. Lad the general Tala Baca Tala been lil Altace wala can

leave Hardy OBU D attic, do not make you're seeking, you're asking

your supplication and asking for a gift. And asking from Allah

subhanaw taala to give you something rather make it as an

expression of your servitudes

he says something else he says, when Allah has given you the Tofik

to raise your hands and to ask with sincerity, then that is a

sign that he wants to give you.

Otherwise he would never even let your let you raise your hands. He

then says something else this all of this indicates what the how the

nature of Doha should be what the nature of Doha should be something

else. He says.

The fact that you've been able to even ask of Allah is the gift

itself.

Because who gets to show that humility and ask Allah the Prophet

sallallahu sallam said, a dua who will a bird a da da da da is

worship. Da is the essence of worship. I remember reading that

the first time. How does dua in which

You are asking for something it seems like a selfish.

It seems like a selfish move a selfish statement, articulation of

some sort, I want this. How is that worship, worship glorifying

God?

How does that come together? How do you reconcile the two. And

again, it's just because we're losing,

we're missing, what the real dua is. What a dua should be for, is

not a servant in the morning or employees in the money today we

need to do is good. And there's good news. This needs to be on a

list of things. You see, when a person sincerely makes dua to

Allah subhanaw taala, what they are doing is they are expressing

their need, they are expressing that they are in need of Allah.

And it's only Allah iya cannot do what yakka necessary, and it's

only you we can seek any help and assistance from this is an

expression of that this is what it's supposed to be. So I can't

ask anybody else. That's why I'm asking you. I can only ask you

because you're the source of every

What better worship is there than that?

If a person can get this right, dua becomes the essence of

worship.

Because you are expressing to Allah, our servitude, we're

expressing his lordship. And we are then putting out there that

this is the true relationship. And that is the relationship that

Allah subhanaw taala wants us to confess to. And that's why one of

the greatest characteristics of the prophets Allah mentioned in

the Quran, in one of the most noble instances is Subhan Allah

the SRB Abdi that Glorified be He who took his servant by night,

from Masjidul haram to Machu Luxa. He could have said, His Great

Prophet, his beloved, so many other characteristics could have

been used, but he says his servant, because the Prophet

sallallahu sallam was that true servant, he had the highest level

of servitude, that anybody could be yet he was the greatest human

being that ever lived.

If you look at the doors of the prophets of Allah, some they are

amazing they they teach us how to ask, they teach us what we should

be saying. The prophets Allah some says La ilaha illallah, who la vie

will Helene La Ilaha illa Allah Who Rob will Akshay Levine, he

starts off by saying that there is no God except Allah, Lord of the

great throne, and he gives all of these praises to Allah. Then he

asks, Oh Allah, I asked you by every known name of yours, Allah

means Luca Ismene, who are like, I asked you through every name of

yours that you possess, that you have until the goofy kita big that

you have revealed in your book.

Or you have

inspired it to a particular individual, or you have withheld

it to yourself and confined it to yourself and you've not reveal I

asked you by all of those names, and digital digital Quran or

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You see how he does it is not just, Oh Allah give me refuge of

Allah give me the Quran, oh Allah give me this blessing. You have to

start you have to build a relationship. There's a discourse

that takes place, there's an expression of servitude

and that's why

there needs to be conviction in our in our doors. There's a very

interesting story hjem new use of he is in the Haoran he starts his

toe off as bad as he was he did tawaf.

You know, to office, right? And he sees this blind guy on the side

making this dua to Allah. Oh, Allah give me back my sight. So he

goes up to him. I know you're not blind brother, but

do you know who I am? So the blind guy is like, who are you? I am

head judge. Now that was enough to send shivers down anybody's back,

because everybody knew him.

And he said to him, he said, by the time I finished my toe off,

you better have your sight back. Otherwise you're dead. And when

had judge said that it meant it because he's, he killed literally

1000s of Sahaba along with other people, I mean, he was just at the

word they would be slain. So now he carries on with this stuff. And

when he finishes, he goes back to that man, and that man has his

sight back.

That man has his sight back. And he said, This is exactly this is

exactly why I said what I said to you your DUA Allah give me this

Allah give me that oh Allah give me this Oh Allah give me that

there was no conviction in it.

When you make dua, the prophets Allah some said fail Yeah, Azim

you should be full resolution. And then we wonder and then we get

tired, and then we give up and say I've been making doors for the

last 30 years it hasn't been accepted.

That's dictation to Allah. subhanaw taala you know if I've

gone on a trip and I bought back from Egypt or somewhere some

Very delicate piece, some very delicate wall piece. And my young

son, they're six years old, he wants to start playing with it

because it's very flashy and nice.

I know if he has it, he's gonna break it. It's very expensive. I

bought it for four or 500 pounds. I don't want to risk that, what

would I do to my son? instead? I say, Look, this is not good for

you, let me put that away, and I'm gonna give him a suite or give him

something else.

With the same thing, Allah runs the NIV arm of the world, the

whole system of the world is in his hands. This is quantum world.

And we think that everything we want must be done with just one

particle within that system, psi G.

How can whatever we want,

have to happen. Allah has a timetable. And when we ask him, he

is definitely going to respond to us. And there's no doubt about

that. If what we want is appropriate for us in the grand

scheme of things and his predetermination, then he will

give it to us.

And if it's not good for us to have it, then maybe he'll give it

later. And if it's never good for us to have it, then he will give

us something else, he will remove a calamity from us, He will give

us something

and then he will give us a better return for it in the hereafter

when a person has mentioned when a person will think I wish none of

my doors in the world were accepted and I got all of my

reward in the hereafter. So do not ever think every dua we make is an

expression of herb udia it takes us that much closer to Allah

subhana wa Tada. And that's what

and it gives us some there must be so many calamities that have been

removed from us because of the doors we are making several times

a day sometimes, but we don't know.

Just let go of the offer a few days and see what happens.

Now

as Ramadan is coming.

I mean the topic I was given was dua or shaky shakable. Earlier, he

recommended he advised me suggested that I discussed this

book very quickly in the last two or three minutes that I have. This

is a book that we worked on. And the reason I worked on this book

is because it's one of the most amazing collection. There's a

number of amazing collections out there of

of the hours. But the reason why this is so amazing. It's written

about 400 compiled about 400 500 years ago by moonlight el arte, he

was somebody originally from Afghanistan, Hirata any of Danny's

here.

No, but he had moved to Mount Carmel, Colorado and become one

great Scotland is left behind a legacy of work, literal work which

mashallah everybody benefits from today. So he said, look, there

were lots of people doing lots of doors in those days. And a lot of

them were not very authentic. So I decided to put together all the

doors from the Quran, plus all the doors from the prophetic

narrations, and then end the book with a section on solid solid on

the Prophet sallallahu sallam. Now, one of the most amazing

things I see I mean, there's numerous people around the world

that read this book, it's part of their daily, literally daily,

daily wizard, right. And that's why it's called El Hizbul out of

them while we're doing a form, which is the supreme daily

remembrance. And see, the benefit that I see of this book is that

when a person completes it from beginning to end, whether that

takes them two months, whether that takes them six months,

it's supposed to be read in a week, technically, I mean, that's

the, that's the idea seven days. But if you can't do that, then you

read it over a month, you read a few pages a day, but when you

finish it, by the time you finish it, you would have asked Allah for

everything that you should be asking Allah for, for the perfect

life of this world, and are hired on by yerba. And you've also

sought refuge from everything that you're supposed to be seeking

refuge from, by the end of it. Now, as I said, there's many

collections and you know, we can all do as a beneficial, but that's

the beauty that I found in this book. And that's why we worked on

it, to produce it in this beautiful way with five color

press and so on and so forth, is being compared with the it's been

compared with the manuscripts and so on so forth. But mashallah,

that's if hold on to any dua litany, and you will feel that

your heart will find more contentment. And what better time

than the time for dollar in whether generosity I mean, it

mentions in the Shemitah liftin movie that the generosity of the

Prophet sallallahu sallam was at its greatest in the month of

Ramadan? If that's the expression of generosity of the Prophet

sallallahu sallam, and he's only a reflection of Allah. Then can you

imagine Allah? Allah has generosity in the world during the

month of Ramadan, when he is opening up the doors of paradise

as the hadith of Abu Huraira dimensions inside Buhari, the

doors of hellfire being closed and he's getting rid of the shaytaan

for us, at least for that month. And he is

magnifying every four to 70 times and that's not a joke. It's not

buy one get one free or even get five free. It's not even a closing

down sale. This is one to 70 and every Nephal to a fund, and so on

and so forth. And you've heard the forgotten. But that's what the

beauty beautiful parties and nobody misses the bollock out of

Ramadan. Have you seen how even our sisters they get this ajeeb

him to cook these amazing foods during the month of Ramadan. We

should be taking, taking it easy on that actually because those

samosa and everything like that, that Iftar is actually very

harmful, right? And we're supposed to be actually curbing our desires

and not just, in fact, there's no word in the English language.

There's a brunch, but there's no lunch and dinner word is there.

And unfortunately, if that's what we're doing, then that's really

sad. But that's off my topic. May Allah subhanho wa Taala

is there's a big dua, but it's not beyond Allah. May Allah make every

one of us a monster job with that words, in this month of Ramadan.

And what that means is that may Allah make every one of us of

those people whose every dog gets accepted. May Allah accept Welcome

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