Yousef Bakeer – A Dua For Protection Against The Evil Eye

Very short,

but very powerful.

Short

and very powerful. Why I say it's powerful?

Because this dua is meant to be against

the protection.

It's meant to be for a protection from

the evil eye.

Protection

against the evil eye or hasad.

Why some of us, we have that fear

of evil eye?

Because sometimes we go on our lives and

then we apply for a job, we don't

get the job, and frequently we apply and

then we get rejected. Or we're looking for

a marriage and we don't have good luck

with with, you know, choosing the right spouse,

and many other reasons. And then we just

get into the mindset that hasad

or evil eye is actually causing all of

this.

Causing all of this failure. Or cause causing

this, you know, this this anxiety of losing

something as well. So 2 things. 2 sides

of the coin. Either you're aiming for something

and you're not able to accomplish it, or

you have something that's very precious

and you're concerned about losing it.

And then we claim that the evil eye

is the reason.

Now why do I say that this du'a

is very powerful?

Because Allah here, through the Prophet Muhammad

brought to us this gift, this du'a.

Because he wants us to change these negative

thoughts, this anxiety of losing something or this

fear of facing certain circumstances

or certain consequences.

Allah here wants us to change these negative

thoughts

into a dua. Think about it.

Whenever you feel that maybe there is something

going on, I've met many people today, and

I'm not sure what intentions they have for

me. I'm not sure

if they have given me evil eye or

not.

Here, the Muslim mindset is to change this

negative thought

into what?

A dua. And the dua is right in

front of you. Very short, very beautiful.

The prophet

said, whenever you face

that negative thoughts,

you can say

I'll say it again.

You see refuge in Allah

Here the scholars have different opinions about this.

Some of them said, Imam Malik for instance,

he said, Allah means here the beautiful names

of Allah and attributes. Other scholars said, it's

the Quran. The

perfect words

are the Quran.

And other scholars,

they said, maybe Allah means.

Regardless,

it's very it's very powerful to actually seek

refuge in Allah from the Quran or his

names or some of the Quran.

You seek Allah's protection

from all shayateen.

From all shayateen.

Means any poison creature.

If you're camping

and you're just like afraid of

an animal that can poison you, you seek

Allah's protection from this by saying this dua.

And then the last part.

And You Allah,

I see refuge in you. I seek your

protection

from from

the evil eye.

This way you go on your day, and

you have this tamaleena.

Because if we are uncertain about who's giving

us the evil eye, we know for a

fact that there is

a certainty in Allah

We are uncertain, but Allah is certain.

Our fear is uncertain, but Allah is certain.

Our anxiety

is uncertain, but Allah is certain.

So we claim, we actually believe that Allah

is the one who protects us, and that's

the mindset of a believer.