Kamal El-Mekki – Jumuah 06-09-2024

Kamal El-Mekki
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The importance of Islam and its followers is discussed, including Allah's guidance and guidance of others, as well as the use of "tied" in narrations and events. The importance of forgiveness for one's actions is emphasized, along with seeking forgiveness during difficult times and not missing the greatness of the hour. A man who missed an hour of sleep and missed a goddamn weekend prayed for Maghrib's forgiveness, as well as a woman who missed an hour of sleep and missed a goddamn weekend and faced challenges during the last hour of the day. forgiveness is emphasized as a way to manage and overcome difficult situations.
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I bear witness that there is none worthy

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of worship except Allah.

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I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger.

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I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger.

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Come to Prayer.

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Come to Prayer.

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Come to success.

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Come to success.

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Allah is the Greatest.

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Allah is the Greatest.

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All praise is due to Allah.

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We praise Him, ask His help and ask

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His forgiveness.

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We seek refuge in Allah from the evils

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of our souls and the evils of our

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deeds.

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Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him.

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Whomsoever Allah leads astray, none can guide him.

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I bear witness that there is none worthy

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of worship except Allah.

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He is alone and has no partner.

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I bear witness that Muhammad is His Servant

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and Messenger.

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O you who have believed, fear Allah as

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He should be feared, and die not except

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as Muslims.

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O you who have believed, fear Allah and

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speak the truth.

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He will correct your deeds and forgive your

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sins.

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And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has

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indeed attained a great triumph.

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As for what follows, the truth of the

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hadith is the Book of Allah.

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And the best guide is the guide of

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Muhammad ﷺ.

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And the worst of things are its innovations.

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And every innovation is an innovation.

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And every innovation is a misguidance.

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And every innovation is in the Fire.

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The last hour of the day of Friday.

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And we'll begin with this story from this

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shaykh who says, My entire life, my father,

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he never accepted any invitation on Friday.

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He never booked or planned any activity on

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Friday.

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He said Friday he would pray Asr in

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the masjid.

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And he would sit from Asr until Maghrib.

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And he would make dua to Allah in

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the masjid.

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Another story was a man who had all

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kinds of debts and problems.

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And he didn't know what to do.

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So he was advised.

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And he lived in Mecca.

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So they told him, Go to the haram.

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This was on Friday.

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And they said, Pray Asr there and then

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don't leave.

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Just stay there making dua until Maghrib.

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He says, I prayed Asr and I made

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dua until Maghrib.

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And I stayed there after Maghrib.

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And before Isha came, I got a phone

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call.

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Someone offering me a huge amount of money

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solving all my problems.

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So what is so special about this last

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hour on the day of Friday?

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We have a hadith mentioned in Sahih Bukhari

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and Muslim.

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Abu Hurairah radiallahu anhu said, Abu al-Qasim

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, So this is

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Abu Hurairah narrating from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam.

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On Friday, there is a time when a

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Muslim servant does not agree to pray.

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So he asked Allah for goodness, but He

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did not give him.

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Now, on the day of Friday, there is

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an hour that there is no believing Muslim

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who coincides or happens to be asking Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala during this time for

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any of the good of this world or

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the next, except that Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala will give it to them.

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Now, the hadith also says, qa'imu yusalli,

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standing in prayer.

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But the scholars explained, and this we'll see

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later on as explained by the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam, qa'imu yusalli doesn't mean

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that he's engaged in prayer, but the fact

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that you're sitting in the musalla.

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And the hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam explained, any time you are sitting in

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the musalla, awaiting a prayer or sitting in

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the musalla, after a prayer, it's considered salah.

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So that's what it means, someone's in the

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musalla making dua to Allah azza wa jal.

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So this hadith is authentic in Sahih Bukhari

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and Muslim, and it says there's this hour

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on the day of Friday, and it's a

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12-hour day.

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So within this day, there is an hour,

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if you're asking Allah for anything, you will

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get it.

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So the question is then, what is and

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when is this hour?

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When is this specific time?

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Ibn Qayyim, rahimahullah, he mentioned 19 different opinions

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on when this time is.

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And as a total, there are about 40

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different opinions.

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When is this exact time?

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But we're going to look at the top

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two.

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The top two.

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One of them is narrated by Tirmidhi and

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Ibn Majah, and it's from Abu Burda.

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Abu Burda is a tabi'i.

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He is the son of the companion Abu

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Musa al-Ashari.

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So he meets with Abdullah ibn Umar ibn

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al-Khattab.

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And he says, Abdullah ibn Umar, qala liya

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Abdullah ibn Umar, asami'ata abaka yuhaddithu an

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rasoolillahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam fee sha'ni

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sa'ati aljumu'ah?

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So Abdullah ibn Umar is now asking him,

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Did you hear your father, the companion Abu

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Musa al-Ashari, narrating anything from the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam about the hour of

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al-jumu'ah?

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And this means the hour where your du

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'a is accepted.

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I said, Yes.

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So he says, Yes.

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I heard my father say that he heard

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say that

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this hour where your du'a is answered

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is from between the time the imam sits,

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meaning between the two khutbas, until the prayer

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is over.

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And there are other hadiths saying the same

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thing, stating the same opinion, but they all

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range from weak to very weak.

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So this opinion also doesn't mean that you

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ignore the khutba and you engage in du

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'a.

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The scholars explained, rather you listen to the

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khutba, you say ameen when the imam makes

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du'a, you make du'a between the

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two khutbas, meaning when the imam sits down

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you make du'a, and you make du

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'a in the salah and before the taslim.

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So that's the first opinion as to when

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is this hour or this specific time.

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The second opinion is the more popular opinion,

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and that is, it is after asr prayer

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on the day of al-jumu'ah.

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And this is the opinion of companions of

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, including Abdullah

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ibn Salam, Abu Huraira radiyallahu anhu, from the

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scholars Tawus ibn Kaysan and Imam Ahmad ibn

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Hanbal rahimahullah.

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This is narrated by Imam Ahmad rahimahullah and

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri through Abu Huraira

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radiyallahu anhu.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Inna

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fil-jumu'ati sa'atan la yuwaafiquha abdun

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muslimun yas'alullaha azza wa jalla feeha khayran

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illa a'taahu iyyah wahiya ba'da al-asr.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is

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saying, On Friday there is an hour, there

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is no believing servant or Muslim servant who

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is making dua to Allah during this hour

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or this time, except that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala will give it to him.

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And then he says, Wahiya ba'da al-asr.

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Inna is after asr.

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And there is weakness in this narration, but

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it's supported by many similar narrations.

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In Sunan Abu Dawud and also narrated by

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Nisa'i through Jabir ibn Abdullah, the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Yawmul-jumu'ati

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ithnata'ashrata sa'a.

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The day of Friday is 12 hours.

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La yuwajadu feeha abdun muslimun yas'alullaha shay

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'an illa a'taahu iyyah faltamisuha aakhira sa'atin

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ba'da al-asr.

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So similar hadith to that one.

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And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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said, Seek out this hour in the last

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hour after asr.

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Meaning the last hour after asr before Maghrib

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comes in.

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In the Sunan of Sa'id ibn Mansur

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rahimahullah from Abu Salama ibn Abdul Rahman, the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he's saying that,

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anna nasan min ashabi rasulillahi sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam ijtama'u.

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He says a group from the companions of

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gathered.

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This is after the death of the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Companions gathered together.

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Fadhakaru al-sa'a allati fi yawmi al

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-jum'a.

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So they mentioned that specific hour that is

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on the day of Friday.

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Fatafarraqu walam yakhtalifu annaha aakhir sa'a min

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yawmi al-jum'a.

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So until they separated or dispersed, none of

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them had disagreed that it is the last

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hour on the day of Friday.

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The companions gathered together, and not a single

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one of them disagreed that it is the

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last hour on the day, meaning before Maghrib

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comes in, of Friday.

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And likewise, another narration supporting this, narrated by

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Ibn Majah.

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This is Abdullah ibn Salam.

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He says, I said, while the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam was sitting, while the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sitting with me,

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he was talking about the hour of Jum

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'a where the du'a is answered.

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And he said it is after Asr.

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Or he said that there is an hour

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in Al-Jum'a.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he

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said he signaled to me, or a little

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less than an hour.

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An hour or a little less than that.

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So I said sadaqt, or a little less

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than that.

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Then I asked him, ayyu sa'atin hi?

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Which hour is it?

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He wants to pinpoint.

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When is this specific time?

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam qala

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aakhiru sa'atin min sa'atin nihar.

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It is the last hour of the hours

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of the day, before Maghrib comes in.

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So then I said, it is not from

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the time of prayer, because you're not allowed

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to pray after Asr, unless there's a reason,

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janazah or something like that.

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But for no reason, just extra voluntary prayers,

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you're not allowed to, and this time is

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not a time of prayer.

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So then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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and this is the hadith we alluded to

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earlier, explained that when someone is sitting in

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the musalla, before or after the salah, that

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is considered salah.

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So, that's why we find, and we find

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other narrations by the way, in Sunan al

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-Tirmidhi narrated by Anas radiallahu anhu, and the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, iltamisu al

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-sa'a allati turja fi yawm al-jum

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'a ba'da al-asr ila ghuyubati al-shams.

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So he's saying, seek out that hour where

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your dua is answered, after Asr, until the

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sun sets.

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That's why you find, great scholars such as

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Sa'id ibn Jubair, rahimahullah, they said that

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Sa'id, when he would pray Asr, he

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would not talk to anyone.

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He would just sit until maghrib, making dua

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to Allah.

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So this is the hour that we're supposed

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to seek, and this is the day, we're

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in that day, where there is this hour.

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And how many Fridays have passed, where perhaps

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we missed out on this great opportunity.

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I say this, and I seek Allah's forgiveness

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for me and for you from all my

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sins.

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So seek His forgiveness, and those who seek

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His forgiveness will be successful.

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Ask Allah azza wa jal for His forgiveness.

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Indeed, those who ask for His forgiveness shall

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prosper.

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We know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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informs us of the best of times, and

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virtuous times, such as Ramadan and Laylatul Qadr,

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and the excellence of Friday, so that we

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can take advantage of these times.

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Otherwise, what is the point of telling us

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about the best of times, if there is

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nothing that we're going to do in the

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best of times?

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So, it befits and behooves the believing man

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and woman to free up that hour, and

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that time of Friday.

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We understand it's the weekend, and families go

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out, and things happen, and we're not saying

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you have to miss out on that, but

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we're going to mention the highest level.

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The highest level is to free yourself during

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this time, and before Maghrib comes in, to

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sit and make some dua to Allah azza

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wa jal.

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Then, if not, then even if you're at

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a family outing, or some event, you can

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stop, or in your car, or just step

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aside, and make some dua to Allah azza

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wa jal, just to not miss the greatness

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of this hour, or the possibility of this

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hour.

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And if you can't do it regularly, at

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least take advantage of it during times of

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difficulty, just like we saw in the stories

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in the beginning.

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Maybe I can't do this regularly, but when

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I have difficulty in my life, I take

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advantage of moments like this.

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I take advantage of the last hour of

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Friday.

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And I'll conclude with this true story that

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happened in our times.

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This old man, and he has a teenage

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son.

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He says, my son is always out of

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the house.

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He said, sometimes he'll be out for five

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days and I don't see him.

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He's always spending his nights and times with

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his friends.

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He said, I was so angry with him

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that I was going to make dua against

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him.

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And some of my friends advised me, they

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said, don't make dua against him.

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He said, this is the day of Friday,

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and the last hour of the day, just

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go sit in the masjid and make dua

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for him.

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He said, I went and I made dua

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for him until Maghrib.

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And then I prayed Maghrib and I came

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home.

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He said, when I was at home, my

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son came to me and he shook my

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hand and he kissed my hand.

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He said, that was the first thing that

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was out of the ordinary.

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Then the second thing, he asked me if

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I want coffee or tea.

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And that was the second thing out of

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the ordinary.

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And then he made it, and we sat

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down and we drank together and we spoke.

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And then we spoke until Isha.

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And when Isha came, my son said to

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me, let's go and pray together.

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And I expected him after the salah, to

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say goodbye to me, because he's going to

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go out and hang out with his friends

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until the early morning and what have you.

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He said, he came back and he said,

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let's have dinner.

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And we had dinner and we had a

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long talk afterwards.

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And there are many success stories and many

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stories about the excellence of this hour.

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But the most important thing, brothers and sisters,

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is don't do this to test Allah azawajal.

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Don't do it to test if Allah will

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give you, to test if this is true,

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what you heard in the khutbah works or

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doesn't work.

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Ask, as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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said, ud'u Allah wa antum muqinoona bil

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-ijabah.

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Ask Allah while you are certain of the

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response coming from Allah azawajal.

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So, ask Allah azawajal knowing that He is

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ghafoor, knowing that He is rahim, that He

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is merciful, that He is forgiving, knowing that

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He is the one who answers dua, not

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to test if it will work or not.

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We ask Allah azawajal to make us of

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those who hear the truth as clear truth

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and follow the best of it.

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And to make us of those who recognize

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falsehood as clear falsehood and abstain from it.

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Allahumma inna nas'aluka al-afiyah Allahumma inna

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nas'aluka al-afiyah ij'anna min abid

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al-imtinan wa la taj'anna min abid

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al-imtihan Allahumma inna na'udhu bi-ridaaka

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min sakhatik wa bi-afwika min uqubatik wa

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bika minka la naqsithana an alayk.

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Allahumma inna nas'aluka al-afiyata fee deenina

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wa al-afiyata fee imanina wa abdanina wa

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fee ibnaina wa fee amwalina wa fee dhurriyatina

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Allahumma inna nastahfudhuka wa nastawdi'uka ma nakhafu

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alayhi wa ma nahdhar.

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Allahumma ja'alhu fee mustawdi'i hifdika ya

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hayyu ya qayyum.

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Allahumma arfa' ma hallabi ikhwanina fee Fadistin.

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Allahumma arfa' ma hallabi ikhwanina fee Fasudan.

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Allahumma fukka hisarahum wa farrij hammahum wa nafis

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karbahum wa aafi mubtalahum wa shfi mardahum wa

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ajbur kasrahum ya rabb al-alamin Allahumma dawi

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jarhahum wa takabbal shuhada'ahum Allahumma kun lahum

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awna wa nasira Allahumma kun lahum awna wa

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nasira.

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Allahumma abrim lahadhi al-ummati amna rushdan yu

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'azz feehi ahlu ta'atik wa yuhda feehi

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ahlu naasiyatik wa yu'mar feehi bil ma'ruf

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wa yunha feehi anil munkar.

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Ya sami'at du'a wa salallahu wa

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barik wa nab'uth rahmatan lil'alamin wa

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ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een wa qumu

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ila salatikum wa rahmatukum Allah

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