 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على عبد الله ورسوله محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه اجمعين و may he favor us in this beautiful season my brothers my sisters the supplications we make to Allah سبحانه وتعالى the dua that we make to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we must be serious about the dua there is no point in calling out to Allah to give you something and you're not making an effort you need to make an effort as well to try and achieve what you're asking for so when you ask for goodness you try and do goodness when you ask for protection from evil you try your best to abstain from evil you don't just walk towards sin and say oh Allah protect me from sin but you're walking towards it so we were continuing from the previous episode we mentioned the hadith of Anas bin Malik رضي الله عن I did not yet complete that hadith but I'm quickly recapping it he says the Prophet ﷺ used to say أعوذ بك من فتنة المحيا والممات Oh Allah I seek your protection from inability or disability I seek your protection from laziness I seek your protection from cowardice I seek your protection from old age I seek your protection from the punishment of the grave and I seek your protection Oh Allah from the trials and tribulations of life and death and the hadith ends there it is متفق عليه حديث of Anas bin Malik who was this Anas bin Malik رضي الله عن he was a khadim he was a servant of the Prophet peace be upon him and he served the Prophet ﷺ for 10 whole years and the point that comes to my mind when I think of this beautiful individual as he was a young boy he grew up he was one of the last to die or to pass away from the Sahab رضي الله عنه and he lived for a long long time Masha Allah Anas bin Malik رضي الله عن he says I served the Prophet ﷺ for 10 whole years not once did the Prophet ﷺ say a bad word to me not once did he say أف to me not once did he say why did you do this not once I served him for 10 years and he actually spoke to me with utmost respect he helped me do what was my task what I was tasked to do he helped me do it he did not get angry with me he did not get upset I remember telling some brothers and even some sisters my brothers my sisters how many of us with those who work for us with the helping hands at home and anywhere else we get upset and angry every day we swear and shout we treat them in such a belittling fashion that it is embarrassing to call ourselves followers of this great example who the servant himself is saying never did he do that never did he say a bad word he always helped me he respected me he was smiling he didn't even say أف to me and I served him for 10 whole years with us every 10 minutes there's a bad word that comes out مي الله سبحانه وتعالى forgive us we still call ourselves followers of محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم isn't that embarrassing so my brothers and sisters أنا سبين ماليك رضي الله عنه who says that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to respect me big time سبحان الله may Allah make us from among those who are inspired to respect those whom we work with who work with us for us and سبحان الله all those whom we work for as well that having been said these young people told me well that was the Prophet peace be upon him I'm not a Prophet come on that's a very bad way of looking at things the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was sent to us in order for us to try and follow his example we have never sent a messenger except that he should be followed except in order that he should be followed by the will of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so follow that example and then they say well the people working for us were not أنا سبين ماليك I don't know maybe if أنا سبين ماليك was working for us رضي الله عنه then maybe we would have been the same he must have been such a good worker those are cheap excuses don't say that we are not the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the people working with us for us whatever they are not أنا سبين ماليك رضي الله عنه but the example fits we need to be more careful about how we speak you want the mercy of Allah have mercy on others if you want your answer the answer of your دعاء and your supplication have mercy on people but imagine you are calling out to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and you've just harmed all those around you what do you expect to come in your direction nothing besides harm so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he is seeking the protection of Allah from helplessness from laziness from being a coward صلى الله عليه وسلم which he wouldn't ever have been from old age and he is seeking protection from the punishment of the grave the punishment of the grave may Allah protect us and he is seeking protection from the trials and tribulations of life and death this means in life we will all have trials tribulations we seek Allah's protection from the trials and tribulations that would drown us that which we would not be able to go through in one of the episodes I remember reading the verses of صورة البقى رحنية the end where Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells us about the دعاء ربنا ولا تحملنا ما لا طاقة لنا به oh Allah do not burden upon us that which we won't be able to shoulder سبحان الله may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make it easy for every one of us again this is a beautiful powerful narration of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's important that we learn it we put it into practice we repeat it we say it and like I've said before if you don't know the Arabic at least say it in any other language while you are busy learning the Arabic the Arabic is powerful it's the exact wording of the Prophet peace be upon him it would be an honor to say the same words and it is definitely more virtuous but if you don't know the same words then at least start saying it in any language that you know oh Allah protect me from laziness protect me from whatever else miserliness and so on then there is another hadith of a totally different Sahabi look at how many Sahaba have narrated these hadith I made mention of Abu Huraira رضي الله عن Aisha رضي الله عنها Anas bin Malik رضي الله عن Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas رضي الله عن so many of these narrations Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas رضي الله عن yes here زيد ابن أرقم رضي الله عن he says that the Prophet in fact he says لا أقول لكم إلا كما كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول زيد ابن أرقم رضي الله عنه he is saying I am not going to tell you except that which the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say what did he used to say he used to say اللهم إني أعوذ بك من العجز والكسل oh Allah I seek your protection from helplessness and laziness we call it inability disability we can also call it helplessness it's the same thing it's عجز when you're helpless oh Allah I seek your protection from helplessness and laziness والجبن والبخل and from cowardice and from miserliness والهرمي and from old age so all of these are already mentioned in the previous hadith وعذاب القبري and from the punishment of the grave now there is an addition that is not in the previous narration what is it اللهم آت نفسي تقواها oh Allah grant my soul its piety سبحان الله oh Allah grant my soul the piety اللهم آت نفسي تقواها اللهم آت نفسي تقواها oh Allah give my soul the piety the taqwa the God consciousness the consciousness of you oh Allah you know we learn from the Quran that Allah is the controller of the nafs and Allah is the controller of the taqwa as well Allah is the giver of the taqwa so we're asking Allah who's the owner of the nafs to actually give it the taqwa so oh Allah آت نفسي تقواها وزقها أنت خير من زقها أنت وليها ومولاها oh Allah grant my nafs its piety grant my soul its piety and cleanse it for indeed you are the best of those who cleanse cleanse it purify it purify my soul for you are indeed the best of those who purify أنت وليها ومولاها you are its guardian and protector you are the protector of my soul and you are the guardian of my soul سبحان الله I want to repeat that اللهم آت نفسي تقواها وزقها أنت خير من زقها أنت وليها ومولاها amazing dua we need to memorize it and ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to purify our soul to grant us the piety deep within our souls and hearts may Allah grant that to us and he continues زيد بن أرقم رضي الله عن كنتينيوز اللهم he says the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say اللهم إني أعوذ بك من علم لا ينفع now we spoke about knowledge here the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is saying Oh Allah I seek your protection from knowledge that is a waste of time that is not beneficial at all you know people sometimes know so many things but it's irrelevant it's got nothing to do with anything it's not going to help you at all you know the fine details of so much you'd rather have used that capacity to memorize something or to learn something that was absolutely beneficial you know I've sat with some young people as they grow up they know the finer details of every single thing sometimes that is not beneficial and when you ask them about real life matters the Akhira the Dunya Allah the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم as well as the Sahaba رضي الله عنهم they don't even know they don't even have a clue and they're not even interested sometimes may Allah create that interest for us in our hearts may Allah make us from those who look forward to the opportunity to increase our knowledge good knowledge that which will benefit us I mean so this is a dua seeking protection from knowledge that is not beneficial اللهم إني أعوذ بك من علم لا ينفع Oh Allah I seek your protection from knowledge that is not beneficial ومن قلب لا يخشاء powerful powerful Oh Allah I seek your protection from a heart that does not fear you a heart that is not content سبحان الله a heart that does not fear you a heart that is not conscious of you a heart that is not filled with humility there goes أعوذ بك من قلب لا يخشاء I seek your protection from having a heart that is not filled with humility I want to be humble my heart needs to be content it needs to be protected it needs to be filled with خشوع you know this humbleness this calmness this beauty when I worship you I love it you know when we say اللهم أكبر and we start صلاة sometimes the heart is not even there sometimes the heart is not even there so we're saying اللهم إني أعوذ بك من قلب لا يخشاء ومن نفسين لا تشبع and I seek protection from a nafs from a soul or a self from being someone who's never filled never quenched never quenched اللهم إني أعوذ بك من نفسين لا تشبع I seek protection oh Allah in you from having a soul that is never filled or content سبحان الله look at these du'a it actually is amazing that the prophet peace be upon him who already was the best he had a heart that was the best he had خشوع he had he was always content he was the greatest and so on he's making this du'a and زيد ابن أرقم رضي الله who is telling us I'm going to tell you what I heard the prophet say I heard him say this سبحان الله سبحان الله so then the last part of the du'a ومن دعوة لا يستجاب لها oh Allah I seek your protection from making a prayer to you that's not going to be answered I seek protection in you from making a prayer to you that's not going to be answered سبحان الله amazing du'a this hadith is narrated by إمام مسلم if we go through this hadith and I'd like to just read it again for the benefit of every one of us اللهم إني أعوذ بك من العجز والكسل والجبن والبخل والهرم وعذاب القبري اللهم آت نفسي تقواها وزكها أنت خير من زكاها أنت وليها ومولاها اللهم إني أعوذ بك من علم لا ينفع ومن قلب لا يخشع ومن نفس لا تشبع ومن دعوة لا يستجاب لها أعوذ بك من قبرية في العيز أعوذ بك من قبرية في المسلسة من دعوة لا ينفع ومن سعيدة من سباعة من قبرية ومن من بعد مراعبة أعوذ بك من أعوذ بك من أعوذ بك من أعوذ بك ويجب أن تستطيع أن تقنعها لأنك هي أفضل من الذين يساعدون. Oh Allah, you are its protector, you are its guardian. Oh Allah, I seek your protection from knowledge that is not beneficial from a heart that has no khushua in it, a heart that is not humble or filled with humility, from a soul that is never full or content and from a prayer or supplication made to you that is not responded to. Amazing. These are the blessed words of Muhammad ﷺ. They teach us a lot. They teach us that there are people who are never happy. There are people whose hearts are not good. There are people who have knowledge that is not beneficial. There are people who call out to Allah without or who call out perhaps even deities besides Allah. Obviously, they are not going to get responded to but those who call out to Allah with wrong intention or without that humility, without fulfilling the conditions of calling out to Allah, what do they expect from Allah سبحانه وتعالى. So, these are some blessed words of the Prophet ﷺ. Another hadith of Anas bin Malik رضي الله عنه that is made mention of that is also similar but slight difference and I'm going to mention it because of the difference. And Anas bin Malik رضي الله عنه قال كان النبي ﷺ يقول Anas bin Malik رضي الله عنه narrates he says the Prophet ﷺ used to say اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الهم والحزن Wow! Oh Allah! Oh Allah! He used to say, Oh Allah! I seek your protection from worry and sadness. Brothers and sisters, this is powerful. What worry did the Prophet ﷺ have or sadness? سبحان الله. He was the best of creation. We need this du'a more than anyone else. Many of us complaining of worry, anxiety. الهم also refers to anxiety. And الحزن or الحزن refers to sadness. People are sad today, very sad. For what? Over something minor sometimes. And people are suffering with anxiety to the degree that they don't even know what to do. They are worried about the future. They are worried about what's going to happen. So much of anxiety. So much of worry in the mind, in the heart. And it affects the health. It affects everything. It affects those around you. So this du'a is very, very powerful. Oh Allah! Protect me from anxiety and from sadness. My brothers, my sisters, don't we desperately need this du'a? اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الهم والحزن. Oh Allah! I seek your protection from anxiety. I seek your protection from worry and from sadness. And حزن could also mean difficulty. It could also translate as difficulty. الحمد لله الذي أذهب عن الحزن. You know, we praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى who has deflected from us or who has saved us from حزن. حزن meaning sadness as well as difficulty and hardship. The next part of this du'a والعجز والكسل. Oh Allah! I seek your protection from inability and I seek your protection from كسل. كسل here refers to laziness. So these two were mentioned in a previous du'a but the first two were not mentioned. So that's why I've repeated this du'a. اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الهم والحزن. والعجز والكسل. إني إني أعوذ بك من الهم والحزن. والعجز also refers to helplessness. I seek your protection from helplessness and from laziness. سبحان الله. والجبن والبخل. Here come those two characteristics again that the Prophet ﷺ kept on seeking protection in Allah from. What are they? الجبن. A cowardice. The opposite of bravery. You know, someone is brave. We're asking Allah to be brave and البخل means ميزلينس. ستنجي. سبحان الله. A person who doesn't want to spend. Sometimes we have millions. We don't even spend on our own families and sometimes, you know, it's strange how some people have very little but they spend. Amazing. We think that this person is wealthy and they're not really wealthy. They're not really wealthy. They're just spending. They are the ones who are known as the wealthy because Allah bless them with the ability to give. And then you have others who really have the millions and the billions. They don't give. May Allah سبحانه وتعالى help us to be able to give and to be able to, you know, be generous by the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Then there are two more things in this dua that are so powerful, so powerful that we all definitely do need to keep asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى to protect us from. So He says وضلع الديني وغلبت الرجال. وضلع الديني وغلبت الرجال. Oh Allah, protect us from being overcome by debt. You know debt when we can't pay back. We took a loan. We cannot pay back. Oh Allah protect us from that condition where we cannot pay back our debts. Oh Allah protect us from the condition where we cannot pay back our debts. The over burdening through debt. Where the debt has overtaken us and غلبت الرجال means the defeat at the hands of the men, the enemy. So oh Allah do not allow us to be defeated by the enemy. Amazing. Let's look at the entire Hadi because it's extremely beautiful. And أنا سبن ماليك رضي الله عنه قال كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الهم والحزن والعجز والكسل والجبن والبخل وضلع الديني وغلبت الرجال. Oh Allah, I seek your protection from anxiety, worry and sadness. From inability, helplessness and laziness. From being a coward and from being miserly and from being overtaken by debt. The inability to pay the debt or the loan. And from being defeated by men. Amazing Hadith. Amazing Dua. My beloved brothers and sisters. It's about time we called out to Allah every day with these type of supplications. These type of supplications. You actually get them in a little booklet. And you can read them. If you don't know how to read the Arabic language, like I said, say them in English or start learning a little bit. They will help you. Many of the people complain about all of these things. And we don't know they are in the words of the Prophet peace be upon him. These are his words. He said them. He called out to Allah using these words. He didn't need it. We need it desperately. We don't even know that these Ahadith exist sometimes. We don't even know that these narrations actually exist. So, it's important for us to be able to call out to Allah using these beautiful words. And this is why my brothers and sisters all these characteristics that are being made mention of for you and I. Nobody else. It's you who is going to benefit from these duas. It's myself who is going to be benefiting from these duas. It's no one else. So, if you're not going to take pride in these words and call out to Allah using these words, then it's wasted knowledge. We've learned something. We've learned something serious. We've learned the words of revelation. These supplications that have come to us via revelation either in the Quran or in the words of the Prophet peace be upon him. And we're doing nothing about it. No. At least repeat them after me. Or at least say them. At least learn them. Jot them down. Try and call out to Allah. I'm sure every one of us can relate to a lot of what the Prophet peace be upon him was saying in terms of duas. In our own lives we are going through these things. You can say right. This point here is mine. This point here perhaps is something that I can take and so on. May Allah make it easy for us. May Allah open our doors. My brothers and sisters it's about time we took these things seriously. And it's about time we cried to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. I pray that Allah grant us all ease until we meet again. السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته.