Allahs Beautiful Names #12 The Secret Power Of Purification – Al Tayyib

How to make your dua always accepted? Allah's

name, Atayb.

Tayb means that which is wholesome, goodly, or

pure. As a quick side note, people know

that Taib is one of the names of

Medina, the city of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam. And the hadith is in Bukhari

Muslim where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

said that it is and

and that it expels the impure like fire

expels impurities from silver. And so Allah

is the pure. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam says,

that Allah

is pure. He only accepts that which is

pure. And so there's 2 things here that

Allah

in and of himself is pure and that

he only accepts that which is pure. He

only accepts that which is pure. But when

Allah

accepts

that which is pure, he does amazing things.

Like the prophet said, that whoever donates from

the purity of their wealth, even if it's

the size of a date, and Allah

only accepts that which is pure. He said

Allah

accepts it in his blessed right hand, and

he raises it like one of you would

raise a baby horse. And so I want

you to imagine a small charity, a dollar

that you give in Ramadan, something very insignificant.

But it is if it is from the

purity of your wealth, Allah

may grow it like a mountain.

And the prophet

says in hadith that's in Muslim that Allah

is pure and he only accepts that which

is pure and he commanded

the believers with the same thing that he

commanded the prophets. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

Allah says, oh messengers

eat from that which is pure and do

righteous deeds. And Allah

says, yeah, you hadithina amnu kulumin taybatimara zakknakum

Allah says, oh you who believe,

give or eat rather consume from the pure

things that we have given you. And then

the prophet mentions

a man.

He'd been traveling for a long time. Ashath

Akbar, dusty and disheveled,

raising his hands towards the sky saying,

saying, my lord, my lord.

Now this is a man normally whose dua

would be fast tracked. It's dua that would

be accepted. This is a man who's travelling

and the dua of the travellers accept it.

This a man who's dusty and disheveled, meaning

he's very far away from being pampered and

arrogant. He's someone who's been broken by the

duration of his travel. And he's raising his

hands and your hands being raised as one

of the etiquettes of dua.

And he's calling Allah

by his attribute of the one who provides

for you and nourishes you and protects you

and develops you. But the prophet

mentions a caveat and that caveat is his

clothes were haram, his drink was haram, he

was nourished with haram. And so the prophetess

of the says, how could this person's dua

be accepted? Meaning how distant is the idea

that his dua was accepted. And so we

learned from this

that if you want your dua to be

accepted, you have to be concerned

with the purity

of your income,

the purity

of what you nourish yourself with. Abu Dharr

who beautifully said, the amount of dua that

is needed with righteousness

is like the amount of salt that is

needed with food.

Meaning that constant righteousness

and a strong connection with Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala is not going to leave you in

need of a lot of dua. So how

do you make your dua always accepted?

Asked this of the prophet

and the prophet

simply said to him, make your sustenance halal.

You will be of those whose dua is

always accepted. But what does that mean for

us? It's not just about making sure that

the food you're eating is halal. I think

anyone who's an imam or a teacher is

constantly being asked questions about gelatin,

vanilla

extract, alcohol and foods, and all sorts of

combinations of ingredients and whether that is halal.

But

sustenance is more than just what you use

to nourish your body, but also what you

use to nourish your life and lifestyle.

What are your sources of income in the

first place? Are they from halal?

And here's another really important question. Even if

your job description is halal, are you actually

earning

it? Meaning, if you're getting

paid to do a job and you only

give it 50% because the manager isn't around

or you cut corners because the client won't

notice. Is that salary or check that you

are actually receiving halal? I had a friend

who worked at a large corporation once,

and he told me, I work at my

job like I am the owner of my

company because

that is the only way that I could

feel comfortable that my risk is halal. Now

back to Saeed ibn Abi Waqqas. He took

the advice of the prophet

and he became someone whose dua was consistently

accepted.

Years later, during the khilaf of Umr ibn

Khattab, he would become the founder of the

city of Al Kufa in Iraq. Now normally,

the founder of a city gets bridges and

airports named after them. That's if the city

itself isn't named after them. Right? They get

all sorts of monuments. And yet Sa'ad does

not get any of these things. In fact,

he is getting criticized by the people of

Al Kufa. When it was Hajj season, a

group of them met with Umar and complained

about Sa'ed saying he didn't even pray correctly.

Now, of course, this is not a complaint

that Umar ibn Khattab who believes. I mean,

Sa'ad is one of the 10 who's promised

paradise and someone who the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wasallam praised in many instances.

But in any case, Umar is the hadifa,

and he needs to investigate any complaints. So

he sends Muhammad ibn Maslama to Al Kufa.

And upon his arrival, he goes to the

different masajid in the presence of Sa'ed, and

he surveys the Muslim community there. Do any

of you have any complaints about Sa'ed ibn

Abu Akas? And everybody says, no. He's amazing.

He's incredible. All of that. However, on one

instance, one person gets up. He says,

That does not distribute

the war equally.

He doesn't go out with the military campaigns.

He doesn't judge fairly. So he's accusing Sa'ad

in his honor. He's even accusing Sa'ad

in his courage. And so

he then makes dua. And he says, oh,

Allah. If this person only said this to

show off to the people, to make a

name for himself a moment right

now,

then prolong his life

and prolong his poverty

and present him with many trials.

I mean a long life

is great as long as you're healthy and

you're strong throughout that life. But if a

person loses all of their

abilities, that's very, very difficult. And then you're

poor throughout it the whole time. And all

of your your family members and your friends,

that support system around you, that financial support

system passes away as well that makes it

even more difficult. And so Sa'ed is making

a very strong dua against this man and

presenting with trials in his religion. And so

this man, the narrator said, I saw him

years later in Al Basra. And this hadith

is all reported by Bukhari.

I saw him years later in Al Basrah.

His eyebrows had become bushy over his head

due to his old age,

and he would be teasing the young women

of the city in the streets in public.

And when people would complain to him and

say, have some shame, like, dude, have some

shame.

He would say,

I was hurt. I have been afflicted

by the dua of Sa'ad.

And so you don't wanna mess

with someone whose dua is accepted.

And if you wanna be that person, you

wanna be that person whose dua is always

accepted,

then make sure

that you nourish yourself

with that which is halal because Allah subhanahu

that which is pure.

that which is pure.