Omar Suleiman – Prayers of the Pious – Episode 20 – Don’t Ask Allah for Patience
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In this episode, Sh. Omar Suleiman goes over a narration that gives us insight into some do’s and don’ts of du’a, especially about praying for patience.
Mu`adh bin Jabal narrated that the Prophet heard a man supplicating, saying: “O Allah! Verily, I ask You for the bounty’s completion (Allāhumma, innī as’aluka tamāman-ni`mah).” So he said: “What thing is the bounty’s completion?” He said: “A supplication that I made, that I hope for good by it.” He said: “Indeed, part of the bounty’s completion is the entrance into Paradise, and salvation from the Fire.” And he heard a man while he was saying: “O Possessor of Majesty and Honor (Yā Dhal-Jalāli wal- Ikrām)” So he said: “You have been responded to, so ask.” And the Prophet heard a man while he was saying: “O Allah, indeed, I ask You for patience (Allāhumma, innī as’alukaṣ-ṣabr)” He said: “You have asked Allah for trial, so ask him for Al-`Āfiyah.”
The speaker discusses a situation where the Prophet peace be upon him said that the completion of the bounty is salvation, entering into Easter and protection from the fire. The speaker suggests that the prophets lie that they have been responded to a difficultship instead of asking for patience, and that they should ask for patience and grant grace and peace. The speaker also mentions a new alarm that goes on Long before the next time inrosse.
Salam Alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Welcome back to prayers of the pious.
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So in this particular situation, I want you to imagine the prophets lie some walking around the
masjid, monitoring people's their eyes and commenting on the ways that they're supplicating to Allah
subhanaw taala like a full on teacher walking around and checking up on people as they're reciting.
They're on making sure that they're reciting and properly. So this is a narration from one of the
bingeable the a lot of time who were the Prophet peace be upon him is commenting on the eyes of
other people. So this is a great lesson for us into the do's and don'ts of john. So he says that the
prophets lie Selim heard a man supplicating and he asked Allah subhana wa tada he made in his, in
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his supplication, a lot of men. Yes, I look at him in a while I asked you for the completion
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of a blessing or the full completion of the blessing. Okay, a NEMA is the blessing. So the Prophet
peace be upon him said, Well, what do you mean by that? And he said, it's a supplication that I make
that I hope good for by it. So the prophets I seldom said to him, that, indeed, from the completion
of the nerima, the completion of the bounty is salvation, entering into paradise and protection from
the fire. So the prophet SAW some was not negating his. He was saying, just make sure that you
intend by that term and near that completion of the bounty, the ultimate bounty, which is salvation,
entering into paradise and protection from the fire. Then the prophets lie some walked by another
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man. And he heard this man calling out Yeah, they'll generally well a crumb, or Possessor of Majesty
an honor, which is one of the ways that the Prophet peace be upon him is to call upon a lie, they'll
generally while it crumb Oh, Possessor of Majesty and Honor. So the prophets lie some responded to
him and said, You have been responded to so ask then the prophets I seldom heard a man making a
Allahumma inni. Luca Saba, Oh Allah I asked you for patience. I've gotten asked this question many
times. Can I ask Allah for patience? Is it a good thing to ask a lot for patience? So overall, I
asked you for patience. The prophets lie Selim says. So Alta La Bella, you have asked Allah for
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hardship for Salah who laugh here instead, ask him for ease. There's a lot in this draft a lot to
unpack. You have asked a lot for test and trial instead asked him to be spared. How do we reconcile
this? Don't we want to be from a sub 18? Don't we want to be from those who are patient and attain
the level of patience? Didn't the prophets lie Selim say that Allah has never given a servant of his
a gift that is more expansive and more comprehensive than a suburban patience? So why would the
Prophet slicin um, say to this man, don't ask Allah for patience. Instead, ask Allah for and afia
the Prophet slicin was referring to a specific context. It's not about asking Allah for the quality
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of patience, which is a great quality to have, or the station of the patient, which is a great
station to have. But in this situation, when you're going through a hardship instead of asking Allah
to give you patience in the hardship, ask a lot to remove the trial and demonstrate patience in your
very being. Instead of asking a lot in with with a spirit of uncertainty and with a spirit of
expectation, of hardship and trial, ask a lot with an expectation of good and an ease, and then
accept if trial comes to you that that trial is indeed good, and is a form of ease in its in its
full context. So the prophets lie Selim did not approve of this man making the Dalai Lama Aeneas
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Alka submit all I asked you for patience. Instead, the Prophet slicin taught us to ask Allah for
alfia to ask a lot to be spared. And then to take with grace and patience, whatever comes our way.
So May Allah subhanaw taala grant us the quality of sovereign and grant us the station of a
submarine. But May Allah subhanaw taala grant us and apphia grant us you know, pardon and
forgiveness and allow us to be spared in this life and grant us the best of this life. And the next
alarm, I mean, does that go on Long Island See you all next time in sha Allah soleimani como la he
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