Prayers of the Pious

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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.

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Allāhumma uktub lī bihā ʿindaka ajran, wa-ḍaʿ ʿannī bihā wizran, wa-jʿalhā lī ʿindaka dhukhran, wa-taqabbalhā minnī kamā taqabbaltahā min ʿabdika Dawūda ʿalahi al-ṣalātu wal-salām O Allah, write for me a reward with You because of it (the prostration), and remove from me a sin because of it, and stow it for me as a treasure with You, and accept it from me as You have accepted it from Your servant David (Dawud), upon him be blessings and peace. We have looked at the prayers of people that aren’t entirely heroes or villains, of many of the Companions and the righteous predecessors, of scholars, and even unknown people who were able to benefit some of those great scholars. But what about the du ʿ ā’ of a tree? This is a hadith, an authentic one from at-Tirmidhi, of a man who had a dream of a tree making du ʿ ā’ and he conveyed this dream to the Prophet (peace be upon him) . The Prophet (peace be upon him) used to ask the Companions, ‘who amongst you saw a dream last night that we could benefit from?’ A man stood up and said to the Prophet (peace be upon him) , ‘O Messenger of Allah! Last night I had a dream, a very strange dream’. He said, ‘while I was sleeping, it was as if I was praying behind a tree. It was a tree which was basically my Imam (and dreams can obviously have different symbols and different meanings). I was praying and there was a tree in front of me. I prostrated and then the tree prostrated as well, and then I heard the tree make du ʿ ā’ . The tree said: “O Allah, write for me a reward with You because of it (the prostration) and remove from me a sin because of it, and accept it from me as You accepted it from Your servant David, upon him be blessings and peace.”’ The tree is making du ʿ ā’ , and obviously it’s not an actual tree but the man is learning a prayer and everything glorifies Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . The Prophet (peace be upon him) loved this narration so much, and saw it as a form of divine wisdom and pleasure, that he made sujūd and made the same du ʿ ā’ , which teaches us many lessons. One of the things we learn is that as you are making sujūd , as you are prostrating, recognize that the most beloved station, the most beloved position that you are in with Allah (glorified and exalted is He) is prostration. This is a lesson that Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah (may Allah be pleased with him) mentioned: only human beings can make a perfect sujūd . Our bodies are created to pray, to prostrate. All of our limbs touch the ground the way that they do, with our foreheads on the ground calling upon Allah in prayer and humility, and there is nothing more beloved to Allah than that. The Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned that you are closest to Allah in your prostration. So when you go into prostration, that’s the time to make special prayer, especially in the nawafil (voluntary prayers). May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) accept our prayers and our prostrations. May He allow that humility to be conveyed in our prostration to Him in our prayer as well as in obedience to His commands. Āmīn . 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.

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The Prayers of the Pious: This section includes a collection of prayers and supplications from the Quran, the Sunnah, and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

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You will learn about the different types of prayers that are prescribed in the Quran and the Sunnah. clearly, mela Jarmon. But Forgive me for that which they don't know about me, meaning it's factual. Meeting Muhammad: A Guided Tour of the Prophet’s Life and Teachings is a book that provides a comprehensive overview of the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. It is written in a clear and engaging style, and it is sure to interest Muslims and non-Muslims alike. There are some Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) who were so poetic with everything that they said and everything that they did. One of those is ʿAli ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) , the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , and one of the first believers. ʿAli was near and dear to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and he resembled him in many different ways. This du ʿ ā’ is a narration of the qiyām du ʿ ā’ , the nightly prayer of ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him) that he would stand and recite. It’s a long but poetic du ʿ ā’ , and at the end of it all ʿAli knows that no matter how much you praise Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , you will never be able to fully encompass the praise and the gratitude that He is due. As long as you call upon Allah and show gratitude and praise Him for His creation, praise Him for His mercy, praise Him for His bounties, praise Him for His forgiveness, Allah will not disappoint. No amount of praise can truly encompass the praise that He is due, because His mercy and benevolence exceeds all the praise that we could ever express. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to praise Him as beautifully as ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him) , this beautiful servant of His, and to not be let down and to be guaranteed Paradise as ʿAli was guaranteed Paradise. Āmīn .

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May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow all of us to be beneficial to others without losing ourselves, and may He guide us and guide through us, and rectify our hearts and rectify other people’s hearts and through us help to rectify others. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to enter His Paradise by His mercy and accept our good deeds and forgive our sins. Āmīn . Prayers of the Pious is a collection of prayers and supplications from the Quran, the Sunnah, and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The prayers are organized into 30 chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of Islamic spirituality. As we have been reading through these different prayers, they may raise questions in your mind: How do I know what the truth is? How do I know what Allah really wants from me? How do I know that I’m upon the path that will allow me to enter into Jannah and earn me that mercy? If you look at surah al-Fātihah , there is a prayer for guidance, and it seems fitting to end this book with such a prayer. First and foremost, you should understand that there is no way that you’re going to ask Allah sincerely for guidance seventeen times a day and He leads you astray. If you are sincere in asking for guidance from Allah then most certainly He will guide you to the right path; ask Allah for guidance, ask Him for hidāyah . That’s what made this du ʿ ā’ from ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) so special. You might be doing something that feels right but it’s not actually guidance and righteousness, or you might be engaging in something that you’re not so sure about. Sometimes, you hear different people telling you different things about how to get close to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) and you’re unsure. Hence, the most important du ʿ ā’ to always keep in mind is that for guidance: Guide us to understand Your message properly; guide us to practise the Sunnah of Your Prophet (peace be upon him) properly; guide us to see our faults and our shortcomings. Guide us so that we do not unknowingly take a path that leads us away from You. So I hope, inshā’ Allāhu taʿālā, that you have benefitted from this book and from the prayers of the Salaf, and that you don’t forget these du ʿ ā’ s and this particular prayer. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to be upon the path of guidance and to guide others. May He never let us stray by the actions of the accursed devil or by the lowliness of ourselves, and may Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow that path of guidance to result in a path to Paradise and entering into His mercy on the Day of Judgement. Āmīn . O Allah, I was sincere to Your creation in public but cheated myself in private. Please excuse my disgrace because of my sincerity to Your creation.

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Allāhumma in kunta katabtanī fī ahli al-saʿādati fa-athbitnī fīhā, wa-in kunta katabta ʿalayya al-dhanba wash-shiqwata famḥunī wa-athbitnī fī ahli al-saʿādati fa’innaka tamḥū mā-tashā’u wa-tuthbitu wa-ʿindaka ummu al-kitābi O Allah, if You have recorded me among the blessed, then affirm it therein, and if You have recorded me among the sinful and the damned, then wipe it away and affirm me among the blessed. Verily, You wipe away and affirm whatever You will, and with You is the mother of the Book. 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 Allāhumma arinī al-haqqa haqqan wa-waffiqnī littibāʿihī, wa-arinī al-bāṭila bāṭilan wa-waffiqnī lijtinābihi O Allah, show me the truth as truth, and guide me to follow it; and show me the false as false, and guide me to avoid it. destructive praise because it can put us in a situation of hypocrisy. May Allah protect this bubble His Prayer Amazed the Prophet 18. A Reminder of My Illness 19. Make Me Better 20. Don’t Ask Allah for Patience 21. Death After Fajr 22. Your Perfect Light 23. My Sincerity to Your Creation 24. Your Beautiful Veil 25. O Teacher of Abraham 26. Your Greatness vs. My Insignificance 27. My Love for You 28. Record Me Among the Blessed 29. Beautify My Character 30. Show Us Guidance and Errorthere is no need. As the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, if the son of Adam is given a valley of gold, he will want another valley of gold, and if he is given two valleys of gold then he will want to have three valleys of gold. He will never be satisfied until he has dirt in his mouth, meaning that he would continue to want more and more until there was nothing left. So that’s one form of greed, but ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAwf is also talking about a person with spiritual poverty, who is just like one with financial poverty and starts to exploit people. Of course, we are not talking about the genuinely poor, but those people who have plenty but who always feel as if they are in poverty when they are not, hence they want more and start doing things that are unethical and wrong. This is what ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAwf (may Allah be pleased with him) is talking about, we sin out of a feeling of emptiness and we sin when there is a void that’s not properly being filled. Often, the same emotion that triggers exploitation in the financial sense allows a person to do things that are well beyond the bounds of decency, for themselves and their souls. So this is a du ʿ ā’ that we should learn and say, whether that greed is financial or emotional. We should seek protection from anything that would cause us to transgress and to desire or to try to attain more than what Allah (glorified and exalted is He) has written for us in a way that is not pleasing to Him.

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arḍan, wa-lā baḥrun mā-fī qaʿrihi, wa-lā jabalun mā-fī waʿrihi, ijʿal khayra ʿumrī ākhirahu wa-khayra ʿamalī khawātimahu, wa-khayra ayyāmī yawma alqāka fīh Oh, He whom the eyes do not see, nor can be mixed with doubt, nor can be described by any who describe, nor is changed by any events, nor fears any oppressor or person of perceived power; who knows the weights of the mountains, the measurements of the seas, the number of raindrops, the number of leaves on trees, and the number of whatever is shrouded in the darkness of night and brightened by the light of day, for whom no heaven or earth is concealed, nor a sea in its depths, nor a mountain in its ruggedness! Make the best of my life the end of it, the best of my deeds the last of them, and the best of my days the Day I meet You. In recent months and years he has been a prominent critic of the separation of migrant children from their families, and a supporter of rights for refugees persecuted minorities. This is a very special narration, similar to when the Prophet (peace be upon him) heard the du ʿ ā’ of ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) . He is walking by a man in a masjid and overhears the prayer of a pious man, an unknown Bedouin, calling upon Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . The Prophet (peace be upon him) does not know this man but his du ʿ ā’ amazes him. The Prophet (peace be upon him) is connected to his Lord closer than anyone else, so he senses that connection when he hears it from other people and he appreciates the genuine relationship that someone might have with Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . Even if the pious don’t call upon Him in the most perfect of ways, they call upon Him knowing how capable He is. In the statement preceding his du ʿ ā’ , the man encompasses all of the elements of nature—the mountains, the seas, the rain, and the trees—but he also understands that there are some things that are not perceived in terms of nature, and he brings all of creation into his du ʿ ā’ . This teaches us that the praise of our Lord can never be exaggerated, so you praise and you praise and you praise. Then he makes his du ʿ ā’ , and it sounds familiar: ‘Make the best of my life the end of it, the best of my deeds the last of them, and the best of my days the Day I meet You.’ It’s almost verbatim of the du ʿ ā’ made by Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (may Allah be pleased with him) , the first du ʿ ā’ discussed in this book. Amazed by the Bedouin’s du ʿ ā’ , the Prophet (peace be upon him) appoints a man to stay with him and to wait for him to finish his prayers, and to inform the Prophet (peace be upon him) when he is done. When the Bedouin has finished, the Prophet (peace be upon him) comes over to him and asks the man who he is and where he’s from. The Bedouin tells the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he’s just a man from Banū ʿAmr (an Arabian tribe in Quba’, on the outskirts of Madinah) and the Prophet (peace be upon him) gives him a gift. The Prophet (peace be upon him) asks, ‘do you know why I’m giving you this gift?’ He continues, ‘maybe we’re related’. The Prophet (peace be upon him) knows, he says, because of the beauty of the Bedouin’s praise of Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . Subhan Allah. An individual does not have to be a poet to praise Allah, you’d be surprised how poetic you can be when you are sincere. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , the Creator of the heavens and the earth, He who knows the weights of the mountains and the measurements of the seas, forgive us and make the best of our lives the end of them and the best of our deeds the last of them, and the best of our days the Day that we meet Him. Āmīn .Aclear subject of most of the supplications of the pious predecessors is sincerity, which shows where their priorities lay, but each one gives us something different. One person asked Allah to excuse their private disgrace because of the good that they do in public; one asked Allah to make them a better person than other people might think of them, and forgive them for what they don’t know, and there are different ways that the Salaf, the pious predecessors, used to verbalize sincerity in their du ʿ ā’ s. Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah (may Allah be pleased with him) was a renowned student of Sufyan al-Thawri (may Allah be pleased with him) , and he teaches us a du ʿ ā’ that matches in detail and emotion some of the greatest supplications for sincerity. In his du ʿ ā’ , Sufyan is not only asking Allah (glorified and exalted is He) to not make him a hypocrite, or to allow his private disgrace to ruin his public good, but he is asking Him for deeds that are so good that even the veil won’t do it justice. That is why al-Fuʿayl ibn ʿIyad (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the pious predecessors used to hide their good deeds with the same vigilance that they hid their sins. When you reach that point, your good deeds become so precious between you and Allah (glorified and exalted is He) that you feel that if someone is gazing into that private devotion they’re almost intruding on a beautiful relationship. That’s when you know that you are attaining a level of ihsan, a level of excellence where you are starting to enjoy a conversation between you and Allah (glorified and exalted is He) that is so private you wouldn’t even want your spouse to know. So you save the best for that which no one else sees but Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . My Prayer Journal Use this section to note down your personal du ʿ ās. You may wish to use the keywords for inspiration.