Ustadha Taimiyyah Zubair answers
Faith IQ – What Dua Should I Say Before I Sleep
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What are the draws for sleeping?
An average person lives for about a third of their lifetime. So let's say if a person lives up to 60 years, then it means that they're sleeping for at least 20 years of their life. Now, the thing is that as a believer, when a person does things the right way in the way that Allah subhana wa tada likes, then a person is also rewarded for the mundane. We learn in a hadith that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us that even when we do things, the halal way, the right way, then a person is rewarded for that. So if a person sleeps in the way that Allah subhanaw taala likes, then imagine they get rewarded for that sleep. Also, imagine if a person sleeps in the
correct way following the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, then they get rewarded for those 20 years of their life. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to albala, even as abroad your loved one who, that when you go to bed, then make will do as you do so for prayer. And then when you Lie down, lie down on your right side, and then say the following words, and these words are Allahumma Islam to watch he like that, Oh Allah, I surrender my face to you, my face, meaning my entire being my entire existence, I submit before you, meaning that I surrender to you entirely. And I have no objection against you, I have no complaint against you, any of your decrees
or any of your decisions regarding me, and I surrender my face to you, meaning I seek only you. And then the door continues, that will fall what to me the lake that I surrender, I entrust my entire affair to you, meaning all of my problems, all of my matters, everything that I'm dealing with, I leave it to you, I entrust them to you, meaning I make you in charge of them, you handle them for me, you take care of them for me. And then what else to Lady Lake, I submit my back to you, meaning I lay down while trusting upon you. So I depend upon you entirely. wrong button, one button, a lake, in hope and in fear of you, meaning I depend on you. While I hope for the best from you I expect
only the best from you. And I also fear your punishment. Then the doll continues, that are meant to be kitabi can lady and Zelt Wabi Sabi you can let the autoset that Oh my Lord, I believe in the book that you have revealed. And I also believe in the Prophet that you have sent. There are different versions of this draw. And all of these versions in sha Allah are good. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, that make these words the last words that you say when you sleep, and if you die during your sleep, then you will die upon the fitrah. So this is a beautiful Dora that we can also learn in Sha