 Wow, fantastic, fantastic. Beautiful, say Jalal. Really, really appreciate your time. It's so nice to start off the day. It is. I really do enjoy the mornings with Maulin Baraka when we have such a blessed start. Especially when it's recitation of the Qur'an, it's really, really great. So the viewers are enjoying it as well? Yeah. So from Qur'an, we're going to now be focusing on du'as and supplications and how to really speak to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and here to kind of shed light on some of the supplications and the du'as. Or even the Ziyarahs that we don't really know much about is Ibrahim Al-Ansari. Ibrahim, Assalamu Alaikum. How are you? Everything okay? Alhamdulillah. Thank you. Thank you for joining us again. Thank you very much for having me once again. So today's a Friday du'a, last Friday du'a. Friday du'a, of course, it's a Friday today. A beautiful way to start the day is through supplication, through making a closer bond, a closer connection to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and it's whenever we start the day by calling out to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala we are saying that we are starting the day in your mercy. We are starting the day for you to protect us. It's like for example when a young person wakes up and he or she goes to their parents in the morning and kisses them before leaving the house and kisses them when they come back and kisses them before they go to sleep it's the same thing with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. You speak to him when you wake up. You speak to him when you're wanting to leave the house because there's du'as for that. You speak to them when you're on a journey. There's du'as for that. You speak to him before you go to sleep. You speak to him. This is the beautiful thing about the school of Ahlul Bayt. There is a du'a for every single little action even for entering the house, for going to the bathroom, for washing, for whatever you may think of. Even in wudu, there are specific du'as for every step in wudu for washing the face, for washing the arms, for wiping the head, for wiping the feet and every single one of them is just so beautiful because the imams tend to put the supplication in such a way where they include lessons and show us how to live our life as well as making sure that there is always a special bond between us and the Creator. And they also show us, don't they, the etiquette of speaking to God because I have so many people often saying, well, you know, I just struggle to know how to approach God. This is God. So even if they're not from the school of Ahlul Bayt, introducing them to the du'as of Ahlul Bayt is a really nice way to sort of break that barrier that people have. And it's a shame that that exists in people because God is, you know, he says, I'm closer to you than your jugular vein. So to build that relationship is so important, isn't it? No, definitely. The thing is, any important person, there's always a difference in the way you speak to anyone, be it your son, your daughter, be it your brother's sister, your parents, your uncles, your grandfather, and then there's the highest. There's Allah SWT. Now, when we speak to him, once there is speaking with respect and once there is speaking while being taught from the best, there's a difference because once, I think I am respectful in the way I am speaking just because this is how I have grown up, for example. I have been taught that this is okay. As we know, the same way I can speak, for example, in my Arab culture, if I go to a different culture and speak the way I do at home, they might find it rude. Ahlul Bayt, A.S., are the closest to the culture, let's say, of Allah SWT, and they tell us exactly how to address him, Almighty. Beautifully said. This is a Friday Dua because it's a Friday Dua. I'd really like you to recite it and then perhaps you can talk about what it means. Inshallah, definitely. Inshallah. Inshallah. Inshallah. Inshallah. Inshallah. Is this the whole Friday Dua? This is the whole Friday Dua. One of the beauties of these daily Dua is that they're all short and concise and easy to read, and every single day of the week has a Dua like this. As well as a Ziyara. Ziyara of whom? So on Fridays, Friday is the day of Imam al-Mahdi. So on a Friday we perform Ziyara, this specific Ziyara for Friday, is the Ziyara of Imam al-Mahdi. This Dua itself is from Imam al-Sajjat, A.S. And in this Dua, he starts off with Tawheed. He starts off with talking about the oneness of Allah SWT. Then he moves on to his belief in Muhammad because our religion stands on two, the belief in Allah SWT and the belief in his messenger. Of course, there's the Quran and there's the thing else. However, in terms of the shahada itself, so he's performing his shahada and then after which he goes back to making Dua for himself. O Allah, do not allow me to go astray. O Allah, make me stay steadfast on this religion. And then of course, he moves back because the result of being steadfast is to be of those who follow Prophet Muhammad SAW and his true message which leads us to the Imams. Fantastic. Because it's really fascinating tonight that there's a Dua or a supplication for every single day. I'm assuming there's a specific Dua and a Ziyara for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Yes. So there is the Ziyara, for example, of Monday which we've been through is actually for Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein because it is their day. And then you have a Dua for that day as well. On Tuesday, there's a Dua and there's a Ziyara on Wednesday, etc. for every single day. And like I said at the start of this episode that it is always about when waking up you're making that connection with Allah SWT and you're telling him, I am going to start my day at your mercy with your blessings and this is how I want to start today. But don't you think there's already, for example, Dua as Saba'ah that takes care of that specific need in the morning? Why do they need to do Dua as Saba'ah and then Dua as Ziyara? There seems to be a lot. You see with Dua as Saba'ah, for example, Dua as Saba'ah, as beautiful as it is, it is called Dua as Saba'ah, the Dua of the morning. Insha'Allah, maybe if we get the chance to go through it on one of the episodes, the recommended time is actually after Salat al-Fajr and insha'Allah we'll get into detail if we have an episode on that. Whereas this Friday Dua, there is no recommended time for it, doesn't say do it in the morning, doesn't say do it in the afternoon, this is a general Dua for the day. I said it is best to kickstart your day like this because of the beauty of it, because of mentioning Allah SWT in your mornings. So many of us, especially living in the west, we wake up for Salat al-Fajr and we have another one or two hours of sleep before we head off to work, school, whatever it may be. So maybe a Dua as Saba'ah one can recite after Salat al-Fajr, then once you're waking up and you're ready to go to your normal routine, we can recite this Dua as an example. I mean, you could be on the train, you're commuting somewhere and you could be reading that. It's a beautiful way to start the day because actually I was thinking that not everyone has that time and if you feel overwhelmed and even if you get a couple of these in the week, Friday is obviously the day that is blessed for the Muslims and it would be beautiful to start at some point to recite this. But again, it's as much as we can do, isn't it? Obviously a lot of people have busy schedules so not to feel overwhelmed that I'm not getting a list of Dua's done. No, of course, you see with Dua's, they're not wajib. Dua's are mustahab. They're recommended. They're favorable by Allah SWT. If we cannot get them in, then we can't. But if we can, there's unbelievable amounts of blessings. Therefore, there is no wajib act to it. But to get these kinds of blessings to allow your soul to overlook such beautiful words to make, you see, with these Dua's, there are unbelievable amounts of blessings and I know I keep repeating that sentence but it's the truth of it. Hey, I just learned about Tawheed. Hey, when I first started reading the Dua, after praising Allah SWT, I know that he is the first. Like he says, and then, and to shall continue exist after all things have perished. Now, these are lessons for me. This is me. This is the Imam teaching me about the attributes of Allah SWT. Then he carries on. The all-knowing, the one who will not forget the one who remembers him. And here we're remembering Allah SWT and the Imam is telling us that part of the attributes of Allah SWT is that if you remember him, you will never forget him. Excellent. And I was just going to say, it makes such a difference to someone's day if you start it off by actually connecting to Allah SWT by just as simple as Dua is this. It makes a major, major difference to the rest of your day. A lot of people, again, you're right, it's so embroiled with the hustle and bustle of the world and the commuting and everything. They're probably watching a series or maybe listening to something or whatever it is on the way to work or even thinking too much about work. But if you just want to take a step back, it's a morning, it's still dark, especially in the UK. It's still dark. You leave the house. I don't know, it depends on what time you guys leave the house. I leave around 7am. So it's still dark. It's dark at the moment, isn't it? By 7.40, 7.50 the light's out. So depending on, it's even better if you leave at 8am because the sun is just rising. And to have that special feeling of just reciting a small Dua, it makes a massive, massive difference to someone's day. I think it's centralising your thought process, isn't it? To always go about your day remembering God because it's not that he's absent and only at times of prayer we think about Allah. It's like you say, even you see the sun, those signs of creation could be metaphors for who you resonate with. Maybe you think of the Imam at that time that inshallah he's shining his light on our lives. And there's little things that you can really connect to. And obviously this Dua, it's a beautiful Dua genuinely. To start your, it's the start of the week, it's the start of the Friday. Having these Dua's and always remembering Allah, especially because throughout our day we go through different kinds of trials. Like some of them is seeing, haram, listening haram, being around haram. Now so having this constant God consciousness, remembering Allah SWT constantly, that will always help us by refraining our eyesight, our hearing from these haram acts. And that is the best way to get to a word that we call taqwa. And taqwa is the only way that we can get the closest to Allah SWT as Allah SWT mentions, إِنَّ إِكَرَمَكُمْ عَنْدَ اللَّهَ اَتْقَاكُمْ Beautiful. Thank you so much. I'd love to recap with your permission, Zahra. I think I'll take the notes. Just to recap. Wouldn't want to deny you. Yeah. All the effort. It's my special moment of the segment. So the Dua that you chosen was Friday Dua. It's actually called Dua Juma. That's it. Dua Yom Ujjuma. Dua Yom Ujjus, the Dua of Friday. Narrated by Imam al-Sajjad. Yeah. So it first starts off with Tawheed. Yeah. And then it goes on to him testifying to the oneness of God and that Muhammad is the messenger. Yeah. His grandfather is the messenger. But then it goes on to praying for himself. Yeah. So then he asks all the words. I know it down. So it goes on to praying for himself. And something that you mentioned as a key takeaway, I think, from what you guys were having discussion about in the beginning of the program was these are ways to speak to God. But you were saying that this is, you know, speaking to God from the way of the Ahlul Bayt spoke to God. And that's the most perfect way of speaking to God. I think I've brought everything together. Yeah. I think that's about it. That's about it, right? Yeah. Anything else you wanted to add? No. No? I think we need to move on to our... Brilliant. Thank you so much for your time. I really, really, really appreciate it. God bless you on this day. Thank you very much likewise to both of you. We'll see you next week. Yeah. So after the break, we're going to be joined, or Zara's going to be joined by Barak Hussain, who's a psychologist and a counsellor. And it's going to be in the specialist segment. So please, stay tuned.