Omar Suleiman – Dhul Hijjah – A Dua Away #01 The Most Comprehensive Du’A Ever Narrated
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Have you ever found yourself stuck in du'a
to where you know what you want to
ask Allah for, but you can't come up
with the right words to ask him for
it? And then you go asking or looking
for some sort of prophetic du'a
that you hope matches perfectly with the specific
ask that you have.
What if I told you that there's one
catch all du'a
that takes everything you want to ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for and puts it perfectly
in a few sentences to achieve that goal.
I want you to picture the scene because
it's actually going to be a familiar scene
throughout this entire series.
A'isha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha says that I was
in my room in salah exerting myself in
du'a
and then the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam walks
in on me while I'm in du'a and
he asked me for something alayhi salatu wasallam
and I was slow to respond to him.
So think of her pushing herself in du'a,
trying to come up with the perfect words
to achieve what she wants to gain from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and then the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
intervenes and he says, You Aisha
araee kibijumaladdu'a'i
O Aisha,
stick to the duas that are comprehensive
and all encompassing.
And this is something SubhanAllah you're going to
find with the Prophet and A'isha, the Prophet
with Jawaiyah, the Prophet
in Habibah
where he comes in and
he says, listen, I can give you something
that you can ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
with that will achieve everything that you're trying
to get out of this dua.
And here in this intimate conversation,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is going to
give A'isha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
what some of the scholars call the most
comprehensive du'a from the sunnah of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. In fact, the great Mulla
'Ali Al Qari Rahimahullah said, this is the
most comprehensive du'a from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam. Wasallam. So he says to Aisha radiAllahu
ta'ala Anha, O Aisha,
say the following words,
Allahumma innni asalukaminalkhayri
kullihi
Ajilihi
wa ajilihi.
Ma'alimtuminhu
wamaalam aalam.
Wa'aoothubika
minasharri
kullihi.
In this world and in the Hereafter,
what I know and what I do not
know. And, O Allah, I seek refuge with
You from all evil, in this world and
in the hereafter, what I know and what
I do not know.
And then she goes on to say,
And, O Allah, I ask You for all
of the good that Your slave and Your
Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam has ever asked You for.
And I seek refuge with you from all
of the evil that your slave and your
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has ever sought refuge
from.
Allahumma inni asalukaljannata
wamaqaraba
ilayha minqawlin
o'amal.
WaAA'oothubikaminanari
wamaqaraba
ilayha
O Allah, I ask you for Jannah, for
paradise,
and for that which brings me closer to
it in word and in deed. And I
seek refuge in You from hellfire
and that which brings me closer to it
in word and in deed.
And then finally,
waasaluka
antajaaalaqullaqabainqabaytahu
li khayra.
And I ask you to make every decree
that you decree concerning me good.
So in this du'a, subhanAllah,
you have pretty much all of the articles
of faith summarized
in one paragraph. And I wanna break it
down inshaAllah ta'ala into 4 parts.
The first part
is everything that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows.
The second part is everything that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked for. The third
part is everything that leads to the destination
that I want in the hereafter.
And then the 4th part
is everything that is beneficial of decree for
me in this world. So let's break it
down inshaAllah ta'ala. In the first part,
you're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
for every good that you know and that
He knows. Now that means everything that you
want to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for,
whether it's your finances, or your relationships, or
your careers, or your pursuits,
anything that you want to ask Allah for
that you know is good for you, you're
including it in this du'a.
And then you're deferring to the knowledge of
Allah
and saying, oh Allah and every good that
you know and Allah
knows what's better for us and Allah
knows good things for us that we have
no idea even exist in the realm of
good and evil. So, oh Allah, based upon
everything that you know, give me everything that's
good for me in this life and in
the Hereafter.
And also protect me from the evil that
I know I want to be protected from.
So if you're making du'a for Allah to
protect you from someone who's trying to harm
you or for some sort of oppression,
everything that I know to be evil and
the harm that I don't even know exists
out there, in this life and in the
next. So you're not even time bound, subhanAllah,
in this du'a. And it's based upon everything
that Allah knows and you're achieving this in
one sentence.
Then in the second thing, and it's the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam telling A'isha radiAllahu
anha to make this du'a. And I ask
you for all of the good that the
prophet
ever asked you for and I seek refuge
with you from all of the things that
the prophet
would seek refuge from. Now SubhanAllah,
if you think of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam's duas, like if I was to take
a book of the authentic supplications of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and say here, say
the sentence and you achieve all of these
duas in one sentence.
On top of that,
imagine the duas of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam on the night of Ta'if,
the night before Badr, some of his most
difficult moments, the qiyam of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. So in this one sentence,
you are getting all of those duas that
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam made
in your own du'a and it's the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam telling Aisha radiAllahu Anha
here is a catchall, here is a way
for you to achieve all of that which
I ask my Lord with and SubhanAllah no
one knows Allah
better than the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and
no one had more beautiful and more comprehensive
du'as than the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So
it starts with everything Allah knows, then it
goes to everything the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
asked for. And then finally,
what is the good that you know that
you really really want? It's Jannah.
And this entire existence that we have here
on this earth is to get back to
Jannah and it's the ultimate reward and we
have the guidebook but sometimes
we stray away from it either because we
don't know any better or because we do
other than what we know to be better.
So O Allah, I ask you for Jannah.
But I don't just ask you for Jannah,
I ask you to make every word and
every deed that I say a means by
which I get closer to my goal of
Jannah.
And I seek refuge in you from the
fire and every word or deed that could
take me to the fire. And this is
a profound realization that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
gives to us. Where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam says that a person says one word
and they don't even think about that word.
And through that word they please Allah
and Allah raises them by ranks into paradise.
But on the other hand,
a person says one word recklessly, not thinking
about it, and by that word they displease
Allah
and they plunge themselves into the depths of
the Fire. May Allah protect us. Allahumma'amin
So we're recognizing here that it's small deeds
and small words that we sometimes don't appreciate
the consequences of. And so, oh Allah, I
ask you for the destination
and I ask you for the deeds that
will take me to the desired destination in
the hereafter.
And then the last part of this du'a
is the one that fits destiny, the one
that fits decree.
Wa'asaluqyaantajaaalaqullaqaba'inqadaytahu
li khayra. And I ask you that every
decree that you have for me here
is good. Now here's the thing, notice
though it is an explicit du'a for good
decree, it's not necessarily
a du'a for easy decree and sometimes we
conflate the 2. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, ajaban li amrul mummin that how
amazing is the affair of the believer.
Why? In the amrahu kullahu khair because every
affair of the believer is khayr, is good.
What does that mean? If something
pleases him, something happens to him that he's
grateful for, then he says alhamdulillah and it's
better for him. And if a hardship is
visited upon him, he patiently endures that hardship
and it's khaeir, it's better for him. And
this is only for the believer
that every decree
for the believer is kayr, is good, because
it becomes a means by which it brings
him closer to Allah,
closer to manifesting the qualities of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
closer to achieving the destination that he or
she seeks in the hereafter
which is Jannah.
Also we find from this dear brothers and
sisters that sometimes
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
decrees for you ease but if that ease
takes you away from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
that prosperity makes you ungrateful or you use
that prosperity to disobey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
then that decree is actually not khair for
you, it's actually not good for you. Likewise,
sometimes a hardship comes to you and instead
of making you more patient, instead of it
bringing you closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
it actually makes you bitter and jaded. So
it's not khayr for you, it's not good
for you. So you're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
for the goodness of Divine decree. And this
is SubhanAllah why the scholars say this prayer
is so comprehensive.
Now did the Prophet
also used to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
for protection from the things that we know
we don't want to see in this life?
That we know are difficulties, that we know
are the evil of decree? And the answer
is absolutely. And there's a profound du'a where
the Prophet
also
used to seek refuge in Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala from 4 things.
Minjadil
bala
wadarakishshaka
He
used to seek refuge alayhis salatu wa salam
from the severity
of trials
and then from drowning in misery. And daraq
al Shaka'a, the scholars say is when the
trial becomes so severe that it could kill
you, SubhanAllah, it's like the end of it
all, where you're drowning in misery, where you
can't think outside of that trial anymore. Minsoo
ilqaba.
And from the hardship of decree, from the
evil of decree. May Allah protect us from
the evil of decree in this life or
the next. And then finally, shamaatatil aada. When
the enemies gloat over your misfortune. And so
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us how
to ask Allah for all good decree,
how to seek refuge in Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala from the things that we know to
be hardship.
But what is the greatest station that you
could achieve out of all of that? Sometimes,
for reasons that are unknown to us,
bad decree and I'm using quotation marks
for a very specific reason here, bad decree
afflicts us. We make all these du'as and
then all of these things still come to
us and we wonder, wait a minute, how
come these difficulties are still coming to us?
Because if we take those difficulties
in the right manner, then those become means
by which we are elevated in the hereafter
so long as our response is one that
is befitting to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
what Allah Azzawajal has decreed for us. And
so finally, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
used to make this beautiful dua,
Allahumma
innni asalukaribwa
da'adalqaba.
Oh Allah, after it's all said and done,
I ask you for
contentment.
I ask you to have the station of
riba.
The station of being pleased with you after
the qaba, after the decree. So whatever it
turned out to be for me, oh Allah
let my response you're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to guide your response.
Let my response to it all be rida'
be being pleased with you. And Imam Ibn
Al Qayyim Rahimuhullah
He says, Being pleased with Allah and His
decree is the paradise of this earth. It
is the Jannah of this earth. It is
the greatest of the doors to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
It is the bliss of the worshipers and
it is the joy of those who long
to meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And so
while you're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for
the destination of Jannah,
if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grants you the
ability to be pleased with His decree in
this life, then you've already achieved the destination
of Jannah
in this world in your heart.