Prayers of the Pious

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Adhhibi al-ba’sa rabba al-nāsi, wa’shfi anta al-shāfī lā-shifā’a illā shifā’uka shifā’an lā-yughādiru saqaman Remove the illness O Sustainer of Mankind. Cure the disease, for You are the One Who cures, there is no cure except Your cure. Grant me a cure that leaves no illness. Transliteration Guide A brief guide to some of the letters and symbols used in the Arabic transliteration in this book.

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Allāhumma usturnā bi-sitrika al-jamīli, wajʿal taḥta al-sitri mā-tarḍā bihi ʿannā O Allah, veil us with Your beautiful veil and place beneath that veil what will please You from us. This inspirational collection of prayers and reminders is the perfect companion for anyone who wishes to connect to the Divine. Shaykh Omar Suleiman provides us with thirty short prayers taken from the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and the early generations, each with a short reminder to deepen the impact of the prayer in our lives.Prayers of the Pious provides spiritual gems that serve as valuable wisdom and practical advice for the soul. By reading this short work with an attentive heart, the reader can cultivate love for God and His Messenger and live life with gratitude and contentment. Prayers of the Pious by Omar Suleiman – eBook Details of those days that he stood up, calling upon You during the longest night), and reward his kindness to his father and to me. O Allah, I have surrendered him to whatever You decree on him, and I have made myself content with whatever You have decided for him. So grant me the reward of the patient and the thankful.A lot of times people think of us that which is not true of us. And one of the scariest thoughts for Allāhumma urzuqnī shahādatan fī sabīlika wajʿal mawtī fī balādi rasūlika ṣalla Allahu ʿalayhi wa-sallam. Allahuma lā-tajʿal qatlī ʿalā yadi ʿabdin sajada laka sajdatan yuḥājjunī bihā yawma al-qiyāmah O Allah, I ask You, to be accepted as a martyr in the city of your Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). O Allah, do not let my killing be at the hand of someone who ever prostrated to You, lest he use that against me on the Day of Judgement. In the first du ʿ ā’ we discussed the death of Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and how he longed for the last of his deeds and the last of his days to be the best, and the best moment to be when he meets Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . Now, consider the situation of ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) ; imagine knowing that you are going to be killed and that your ending is going to be murder. ʿUmar would know this is the case because the Prophet (peace be upon him) was with him and Abū Bakr and ʿUthman (may Allah be pleased with them) on Mount Uhud and it shook. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, ‘Be firm O Uhud! You have upon you a Prophet (himself), a ṣiddīq (Abū Bakr) and two martyrs (meaning ʿUmar and ʿUthman)’. So ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) was well aware that he will be martyred, but that wasn’t enough for him. He knew that he was guaranteed Jannah because the Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned ʿUmar on numerous occasions as being one who is guaranteed Paradise. He feared hypocrisy, because he would actually ask Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) for the names of hypocrites to know if he was on the list that the Prophet (peace be upon him) gave to him, and yet he still made so many du ʿ ā’ s about the moment that he would be killed, who would kill him, where he would be killed and how he would be killed.

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subhanho wa Taala being the best day of your life. So again, the drought was allama john Cletus and Allāhumma in kunta ballaghta aḥadan min ʿibādika al-ṣālihīna darajatan bi-balā’in fa-ballighnīhā bil-ʿāfiyah O Allah, if You have granted any righteous servant of Yours a station because of a trial they faced, then grant it to me while sparing me that trial. It's so beautiful! I'm crying because I didn't want it to end and it was such a beautiful journey for me." Azeeza, Goodreads it was the same day and he was the same age and he dressed himself in the same way that the Prophet This du ʿ ā’ is about the covenant that we make with Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . Few of the supplications are covenants that you actually make with Allah, and obviously when you make a covenant with Allah—when you take an oath upon Allah—it increases the severity and sometimes the sincerity of that supplication. It is narrated by Aswad ibn Yazid that ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) recited the verse and when he said that, ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd said that on the Day of Judgement Allah will say: ‘Whoever has a covenant with Me, then let him stand.’ The students of ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him to teach them what to do with that, what to say about that. This is a situation where you actually have a Sahabi (a Companion) like Ibn Masʿūd teaching his students what to say. So this particular du ʿ ā’ has many blessings in that sense.Ilāhī lā-tuʿadhib lisānan yukhbiru ʿanka, wa-lā ʿaynan tanẓuru ilā ʿulūmin tadullu ʿalayka, wa-lā yadan taktubu hadītha rasūlika; fabiʿizzatika lā-tudkhilanī al-nār My God, do not punish a tongue that informs about You, nor an eye that looks upon (Islamic) sciences which point to You, nor a hand that writes the Traditions of Your Messenger. So by Your honour, do not admit me into the Fire. Imam Ibn al-Jawzi (may Allah be pleased with him) was a great teacher and scholar who lived centuries after the Prophet (peace be upon him) . He would tell his students, if you make it to Jannah and you don’t find me then ask about me, and ask Allah (glorified and exalted is He) to enter me into Jannah as well. Imam Ibn al-Jawzi had sessions with thousands of people at a time, and he would cry out to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) and say, ‘O Allah! Do not punish me, because if you punish me people will say that Allah punished the one that used to teach us about him’. His argument in his du ʿ ā’ s and pleas to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , like this one, were born out of a fear of hypocrisy: I’m teaching people about You, so don’t humiliate me because then they will say that Allah humiliated the one who taught them about Him. I’m guiding people to Jannah, I’m acting as an ultimate instrument of guidance, but if I do things or say things that are not pleasing to You that might cause me to be punished, don’t let it be that people show up in Jannah and they don’t find the one who taught them about You. This is one of the things we learn from the Prophet (peace be upon him) , to invoke Allah (glorified and exalted is He) with our good deeds; not out of arrogance but out of humility. When you are invoking Allah (glorified and exalted is He) recognize your shortcomings, or realize that you might not be the best of people and you need to rectify those flaws that you need to overcome. Become an instrument of guidance to His gardens, and out of His generosity and benevolence and honour, Allah will not enter you into the Fire. Prayers of the Pious provides spiritual gems that serve as valuable wisdom and practical advice for the soul. One of the most touching and heartbreaking stories in the Sīrah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) or his Companions is the story of ʿAbdullah ibn Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) , the first child to be born in Madinah, who the Muslims carried and chanted Allāhu akbar, as he was in the hands of Abū Bakr as-Ṣiddīq (may Allah be pleased with him) and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) , to dispel any idea that there was a curse surrounding the women of Madinah and their ability to give birth. He was born in resistance, his birth was resistance, and he died in resistance after his tragic assassination and crucifixion. As ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar mentioned, ‘I was there on that day when they carried him on the streets of Madinah chanting Allāhu akbar as he was born, and I was there on the day that they crucified him, and these ugly people that used the name of Allah were also chanting Allāhu akbar , just like those beautiful people who carried him as a child in the streets of Madinah and chanted Allāhu akbar as he was given life’. The people that murdered him chanted Allāhu akbar and took joy in his assassination; a very meaningful and powerful moment for us to reflect upon and appreciate the fact that ʿAbdullah ibn Zubayr was a person who stood against all the odds. He resisted the oppression of the Caliph, he resisted the oppression from other people, that were saying lā ilāha illa Allāh Muhammadur-Rasūllullāh (there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet) and now he is standing before his mother, Asma’ bint Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with her) , who was almost a 100 years old at that time. Asma’ was one of the first Muslims to deliver food to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and kept news of the Prophet and Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) during the migration. She served Islam throughout her life, this woman who was beaten by Abū Jahl because of her service, and now her son is seeking advice from her on how to deal with suppression and she is comforting him and preparing him for that moment where he will be crucified and killed right next to the house of Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . O Allah! We ask you the best of this life and the best of the Hereafter and protect us from the Fire of Hell.’ (al-Baqarah 2:201) In a similar vein, Salam ibn Mutiʿ (may Allah be pleased with him) was heard making this du ʿ ā’ : ‘O Allah, if you have granted any righteous servant of Yours a station because of a trial they faced, then grant it to me while sparing me that trial.’ Allah is capable of giving the best of this life and the best of the next, so don’t ask Allah for trials and tests but still seek reward. Be graceful when Allah tests you because it might be the case that we can only reach that station of Allah’s pleasure by going through that trial and test. At the same time, when asking Allah know that you are asking from a merciful Lord, a capable Lord, so ask the best from Him. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) grant us the best of this life and the best of the Hereafter and protect us from the punishment of Hell. May He grant us the highest station of seekers, and the highest station of the patient, and the highest station of the grateful without putting us through trials that could potentially compromise that patience and allow us to lose out on that reward. Āmīn . Uways al-Qarni (may Allah be pleased with him) was a man that the Prophet (peace be upon him) spoke about but never met. He told his Companions that if they ever met this man, because of his closeness to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) they should ask him to ask Allah to seek forgiveness for them, and he gave a description of Uways. The Prophet (peace be upon him) described his deeds in two ways: He said that Uways had leprosy and he asked Allah (glorified and exalted is He) to cure him from the leprosy except for a piece the size of a coin, a dirham. Uways was also a man who was very generous or would show extreme obedience to his mother, and because of the obedience to his mother, Allah (glorified and exalted is He) honoured him. Every year that people came for Hajj, ʿUmar ibn Khat.t.āb (may Allah be pleased with him) would ask caravans, particularly from Yemen, if Uways was among them. Eventually ʿUmar found him, and he started to question Uways about his description, where he was from, his tribe, and if he was the man that the Prophet (peace be upon him) spoke about. After establishing and understanding who this man was, and that he was indeed the Uways the Prophet referred to, ʿUmar requested him to seek forgiveness from Allah (glorified and exalted is He) for him. Usually in this narration, we focus on the part of the mother, from the fact that the greatest way to come closer to Allah is to honour your parents. Indeed, Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him) says he knew of no other action that brings one closer to Allah than the honouring of one’s mother. However, in this instance we will focus on the prior sentence, which isn’t usually discussed in any explanation of the hadith and in the context of du ʿ ā’ . Uways (may Allah be pleased with him) suffered from leprosy and he asked Allah to cure him from his leprosy but to leave a dirham-size piece of leprosy on him. Why do you think he would do that? He did that because it was a reminder of the pain that he had suffered and the need to always be grateful to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) to have cured him. That’s a very powerful example of character. Many times we call upon Allah (glorified and exalted is He) in our desperation and ask Him to remove a hardship from us. We make promises to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) if He removes the hardship, but as soon as He does so we become heedless once again and we forget not only the blessings of the removal of the hardship but also the promises that we made. Hence this is an extraordinary lesson; when you are calling upon Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , asking for Him to relieve you of a hardship, ask also for a reminder of the lesson of that hardship, because the closest you are to Allah is often at your deepest moments of vulnerability and hardship, and you don’t want that to leave you. Often, when Allah (glorified and exalted is He) takes something away from you, He gives you something better, and the greatest thing that Allah can give you in exchange for something you lose in this world is Himself. That’s what Uways al-Qarni gained from his hardship, that deep relationship with Allah which he never wanted to forget, even as he wanted to be cured from his leprosy. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) grant us humility and relieve us of our hardships, but do not allow us to forget the lessons that we learned from them, and may He grant us the best of this world and the Hereafter. Āmīn .

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wa-naʿīman lā-yanfadu, wa-murāfaqata nabiyyika Muhammadan ṣalla Allahu ʿalayhi wa-sallama fī aʿlā jannati al-khuldi O Allah, I ask You for faith that does not unravel, and delight that never depletes, and the companionship of Your Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in the highest eternal garden. Often, you come across a narration where the Prophet (peace be upon him) is walking past someone, or someone’s house, or he may see someone in the masjid and overhear a supplication, and he actually approves of that supplication or expresses awe. Imagine the scene, therefore, where the Prophet (peace be upon him) is walking the streets of Madinah one night with Abū Bakr and ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with them) and through the mosque of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and they come across ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) standing, immersed in his prayers and calling upon Allah (glorified and exalted is He) with the most beautiful of recitation. Of course, the recitation of ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd was so beloved by the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he would ask ʿAbdullah to recite the Qur’an for him. These three great men are walking through Madinah and come across this man calling upon Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , crying and immersed in his recitation, and then he starts to make his du ʿ ā’ , his supplication. As he is doing so, the Prophet (peace be upon him) stops and listens to the words of his supplication. Then he says, ‘Go ahead and ask and you will be given, ask and you will be given’. Abū Bakr and ʿUmar wished that they could have that blessing at that moment. Can you imagine a believer asking from Allah in his du ʿ ā’ and the Prophet (peace be upon him) saying: ‘ask and you will be given, ask and you will be given.’ ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) makes his du ʿ ā’ and at the end of the supplication the Prophet (peace be upon him) says, ‘ Āmīn ’. It doesn’t get better than that, and that his du ʿ ā’ was so precious to ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) , he said, ‘By Allah, I have never prayed a single prayer, not an obligatory prayer nor voluntary prayer except at the end of my salah’, it encompasses everything. Consider the words of the du ʿ ā’ , ‘faith that does not unravel’, because nothing should be more beloved to you in this world than your faith, and ‘delight that never depletes’. When you ask Allah for Jannah, what do you look for more than anything else? As the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, don’t just ask for Paradise, ask for the highest level. So ʿAbdullah asked Allah (glorified and exalted is He) for the companionship of His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the highest eternal garden. ʿAbdullah didn’t just want to be in Jannah, or even to be in the highest level of Jannah, but he wanted the companionship of His Prophet (peace be upon him) . This was the most precious request of the Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , beyond every other request. When the Prophet (peace be upon him) asked them what they wanted, all they ever wanted was his companionship in the highest level of Paradise. May we also ask Allah (glorified and exalted is He) for faith that does not unravel, for the delight that never depletes, and for the companionship of the Prophet (peace be upon him) in the highest eternal garden of Jannah. Āmīn . In “Prayers of the Pious,” Suleiman encourages readers to develop a personal relationship with Allah through prayer. He argues that prayer is a ritual and a way of connecting with our Creator and seeking His guidance and help. Shaykh Omar Suleiman provides us with thirty short prayers taken from the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and the early generations, each with a short reminder to deepen the impact of the prayer in our lives.

The author, Omar Suleiman, is a Muslim scholar and community leader who has dedicated his life to teaching and spreading the teachings of Islam. He is the founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute, a non-profit organization that provides educational resources and programs to Muslims worldwide.