 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله و الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على عبد الله و رسوله محمد و على آله وأصحابه أجمعين We praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى. We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم His household, his companions, we ask Allah to bless them all, to bless every one of us to grant us goodness and to have mercy on every one of us. Amen My brothers and sisters, the Prophet Musa عليه السلام or Moses may peace be upon him called out to Allah many times during his life Some of these are mentioned by Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the Quran Some of them are mentioned by Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in the hadith We went through one of the du'as or two of them when he had arrived in Median in the previous episode and today I'd like to go through another of the beautiful du'as of Musa عليه السلام That is so powerful that every one of us actually needs throughout our lives It is a du'a mentioned in Surat Taha A supplication mentioned in the chapter known as Taha in the Quran verse number 25 Allah says قال ربش رحلي صدري ويسرلي أمري وحل العقدة من لسان يفقه قولي The term Qala at the beginning in Arabic means he said So if you were to use these words to call out to Allah with you need to drop the Qala So it is ربش رحلي صدري ويسرلي أمري وحل العقدة من لسان يفقه قولي What is the meaning of it? It means ربش رحلي صدري ويسرلي أمري وحل العقدة من لسان يفقه قولي So that they can understand what I say My statement What a powerful du'a It has got to do with Anything that you are doing You want the confidence ربش رحلي صدري ويسرلي أمري You want Allah to make the affair easy ربش رحلي صدري ويسرلي أمري You want to be eloquent You want to be able to come across in a way That the people can understand what you are saying وحل العقدة من لسان يفقه قولي Oh Allah, untie the knot Now Musa A.S. had literally a knot It used to Or it is reported that he had a stammer A little bit of a stutter And he made a du'a to Allah Oh Allah, you are sending me to the Pharaoh I need to talk to him You are asking me to convey your message I need your help because I stutter My brothers and sisters I want to draw your attention to something amazing A miracle In most cases of those who stutter When they are reading the Quran There is no stutter It's just amazing It's a miracle of Allah سبحانه وتعالى In most cases In some cases it still happens But those who struggle speaking sometimes And they happen to stammer stutter They have a problem with Saying the first word The first few words When it comes to the Quran بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم You would never imagine that this person has a problem speaking That's a gift of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Because it's the message of Allah It's the words of Allah Especially when you understand the Arabic language But even for those who don't So when you are speaking with the words of Allah Allah makes it easier for you to convey the message Because that message belongs to the owner of creation سبحان الله This is Musa A.S What did he say to Allah Oh Allah, you are sending me to the Pharaoh Well, I want you to clear my chest And like I said, clearing the chest here Would refer to many things But it refers to confidence It refers to something we all need You know, I don't want to be nervous I just want to have a clear chest I know and so on And I want you to make this A fair easy for me A fair meaning What you've tasked me with This thing I want you to make it easy for me This du'a my brothers and sisters You can apply it And use it in nearly everything that you are doing You start off your lecture You can read the du'a You want to start off something at work You read the du'a You want to start off You speaking to someone You read the du'a You have something to do You read the du'a You have a task You read the du'a ربش رحلي صدري ويسرلي أمر وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي And Allah gave that to him Allah سبحانه وتعالى Gave it to him But there is another part of the du'a That we may not call out to Or we may not be calling out to Allah With because We don't have a brother called Harun But I want to show you Musa A.S. Who had a brother called Harun By the way I do have a brother called Harun Masha Allah But what I make mention of here is Allah says that Musa A.S. Called out to him Even beyond that du'a He says واجعلي وزيرا من أهلي Let me have someone with me From my family Who can assist me هارون أخي My brother Harun Send him with me You know You are asking me to do something But let me draw the help Of my brother Harun Task him as well with me أشدد به أزري واشريكه في أمر You know Let him You O Allah Strengthen me through him Being with me And let him come And take part in this affair of mine So that we can both declare Your greatness and glorify you And remember you a lot For indeed You are watching What we are going through And you know after that What Allah says And this is something that Brings tears to the eyes again قَالَ قَدْ أُوْتِ تَسُؤْلَكَ يَا مُوسَى وَلَ قَدْ مَنَنَّا عَلَيْكَ مَرْةً أُخْرَى He says Oh Musa We have given you what you've asked Amazing This was almost instant Musa A.S. Saying Open my chest In the sense that you know Clear my chest Make it easy for me Untie the knot And send my brother with me So that we can do this Thing here together And Allah says Okay that's given Anything else Subhan Allah Subhan Allah Allah says Okay that's given Whatever you've asked for me From me I've given it to you That's what Allah is saying And Allah is saying We have bestowed upon you favors This is not the first favor Of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى Upon Musa A.S. So Allah is saying We have bestowed upon you The favors How many favors Have we bestowed upon you Every one of us We need to ask ourselves The favors of Allah That he has bestowed upon us What are they How many are they They are millions Billions Countless It is part of faith And conviction To consider And to think About what Allah has Given you And favored you with And to search for it Hunt it Find it And thank Allah As many things as you can That's a way That you will achieve Increase Because Allah says If you're going to show Gratitude to Allah He will definitely Grant you increase So to show gratitude Search for the gifts Thank Allah for them And you will see What Allah سبحانه و تعالى Will do for you So this was a beautiful Du'a That Musa A.S. Made When he went to the The Pharaoh He spoke so eloquently I think the Pharaoh Subhanallah Was thrown off his feet And this is why He felt threatened By Musa A.S. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى Help us all And guide us In every single way I want to go through More of the Du'a of Musa A.S. This beautiful Prophet of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى He struggled also At the hands of His own people The Banu Israel So when it comes to Banu Israel Allah سبحانه و تعالى Tells us that They did not obey Every instruction Of Musa A.S. They always cross-questioned him They always asked him more And so on But Musa A.S. Sort the protection Of Allah from the Pharaoh Many times Using different words Some of these words Specifically mentioned the Pharaoh In which case We wouldn't be able to use That exact Du'a Because it makes mention Of the Pharaoh But where the word Pharaoh is not In the verse Or in the Du'a And it's a broader Du'a We may use that Du'a That supplication If we have a similar Situation where We need the protection From a tyrant From someone who's bad From someone who intends To harm us Listen to what Musa A.S. says Allah سبحانه و تعالى Speaks about it In Surat Ghafir Verse number 27 وقال Musa إني عذت بربي و ربكم كل متكبر لا يؤمن بيوم الحساب And Moses said إني عذت I seek the protection In my Rabb In my Lord And your Lord I seek the protection In our Lord Mine and yours We have the same Lord The same maker I seek protection In Him From every arrogant person Horty person Who doesn't believe in the reckoning The day of reckoning So two qualities A person who doesn't believe In the day of reckoning But they're not Horty They're not arrogant And so on Here Musa A.S. is saying The one who doesn't believe And he is arrogant He's proud Proud to the degree That he belittles everyone He's harming us He's causing damage He's trying to cause damage He's saying I'm seeking the protection Of my Lord And your Lord From people who are arrogant And don't believe in the day Don't believe in The day of accounting The day of resurrection So there's no harm In seeking this protection In fact it's healthy إني عذت To be ربي وربكم من كل متكبر لا يؤمن بيوم الحساب This is a dua May Allah Make it for us Such that we are protected And those who are arrogant You know Those who don't believe In fact سبحان الله There are other du'as That we will learn From the time of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم When we get to those episodes Where we will be covering The dua Of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم And that's going to take up The largest chunk of our series الحمد لله But I promise you There are so many powerful du'as That we would feel That it was tailor made For all of us Because you see The tests of Allah Are quite similar In the lives of everyone The magnitude of the test Might be different But people are tested In a similar way These are the same tests You see I want to draw your attention To something very interesting My beloved brothers and sisters Especially the younger ones When we have examinations O levels A levels You can Whatever other examinations In South Africa They call it The metriculent exams The metric exams Whatever it is People will tell you generally If you want to pass There is a secret Oh wow So what's that secret Past papers Wow Have you heard that Past papers Do as many past papers As you can of geography Get them from the year 2000 Right up to 2018 18 past papers 2019 2020 Whatever the year is Do 20 past papers And June and November June and November In the case of O levels Okay Or A levels They'll tell you To go wrong And then you're You know what When you've done All those past papers The chances are As you're sitting With your examination Oh wow There's a small change In the question But it's appeared somewhere Because those examiners Need to ask you About a specific syllabus Right That syllabus Is contained Right So the questions They're going to ask you If you've covered So many years Of past papers You've covered the syllabus And it might be A slight difference In wording A small difference A small difference In the numbers But the gist Of the question Is the same And you say Wow I did this Just now This morning I did it And happy smiling You know The examiner The invigilator I think you're cheating Can I tell you The example I'm giving you With Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala He has given us All the past papers We need To pass our exam These are past papers He's telling us About the prophets He says How smaller Than this Do you Have the time To go through these past papers If you do Good luck to you You're going to pass them If you don't Bad luck You're going to struggle You might fail Come back to repeat your exam You fail again Come back to repeat your exam Until You've done enough papers That are current That you Wrote and failed And you got the experience And you came back This is a gift Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala So my brothers and sisters It's a beautiful way Of looking at things That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Is always Asked those favor upon us By telling us What happened to others And this is why In the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ He always speaks about How important it is To look at those Who have less than you So that you can Appreciate what you have Musa'a A.S. Is seeking the protection In Allah From The pride And the Hortiness of those Who are haughty And the wrongdoers Etc. Etc. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Gave that to him Now there is another dua that Musa A.S. has made and this dua is to do with the seeking of forgiveness for himself and his people where he says أنت ولينا فغفلنا ورحمنا وانت خيوره الغافرين سورة العراف ورسم 155 يقول أن الله أنت our protector so forgive us and have mercy on us for you are the best of those who forgive you are the best of those who forgive so he is seeking the forgiveness of Allah we also need to seek the forgiveness of Allah in another verse Allah says that Musa A.S. said رب الغفر لي ولي أخي وأدخلنا في رحمتك وانت أرحم الراحمين verse number 151 of سورة العراف Oh my Rab forgive me and my brother and enter us into your mercy for indeed you are the most merciful of those who have mercy أرحم الراحمين أنت خيوره الغافرين you are the best of those who forgives look at how one is Allah is forgiving that's his quality right his names are based also on forgiveness but to say you are the best of those who have mercy you are the most merciful of those who have mercy you are the best of those who forgive these are qualities there praise Allah we all have to praise Allah oh Allah you are the best there is no one better than you oh Allah there are people who forgive you are the best you are the most forgiving of those who forgive you are the most merciful of those who have mercy have mercy on me oh Allah have mercy on me and my brother so what lesson I want to draw from this is look he is asking not just for himself in one dua he says forgive me and my brother in one dua for our family members in this other verse he says oh Allah forgive me and my people forgive all of us it's not just me so this goes to show that you know we are concerned about the mercy of Allah not just for us but for all those around us and this is why Allah says he says إنهدنا إليك the dua is as follows وكتب لنا في هذه الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرة oh Allah write for us goodness in this world and the next that's the dua وكتب لنا في هذه الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرة oh Allah write for us decree for us goodness in this world and the next the dua stops there إنهدنا إليك is separate from the dua so this is an amazing wording because it was thousands of years prior to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and the man is making a same dua that is mentioned in the Quran and it's something we are asked to call out to Allah with and I'm mentioning that in a moment but it means oh Allah we want two goodnesses in this world and in the next I believe that there is another world to come so I don't want you to solve my problems only for this world but I want you to resolve my matters for this world and for the next both of them this dua is powerful because it shows that you believe in the hereafter it shows that you're concerned about the hereafter so now let's fast forward to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم صورة البقرة الله سبحانه وتعالى speaks about it verse number 200 and 201 where he says ومن الناس من يقول ربنا آتنا في الدنيا وما له في الآخرة من خلاق he's speaking about Hajj and the people who make dua in Musdalifa and the people who are making dua during the season of Hajj and he says these people are saying or from among the people there are those who say oh Allah grant us in the dunya in this world and they have no portion of the hereafter nothing so they forget to ask about the hereafter the supplications from revelation teach us that we should not just be asking about goodness of this world and then leave no portion for the hereafter but to balance the two be conscious always of the fact that while you're asking Allah for some goodness here you need to ask him for goodness of the hereafter as well so Allah says from among the people there are some they don't know what they're doing they're only asking Allah oh Allah help me give me a job grant me a spouse give me wealth give me health give me good offspring give me a beautiful house a beautiful car a beautiful this a beautiful that grant me whatever else in terms of the world and they forget to say oh Allah forgive me grant me paradise make it easy for me in my grave and so on so the very next verse Allah speaks about the ideal Allah says انا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الاخرات حسنة وقنا عذاب النار أولئك لهم نصيب مما كسبوا والله سريع الحساب from among the people are those who say oh our Rab grant us goodness in this world and the next and save us from the punishment of the grave وقنا عذاب النار save us from the punishment of the grave Allah says those are the ones who will achieve a portion of what they have earned so this is a beautiful dua why it's divided into three two of them regarding the hereafter and the one portion regarding this world subhan Allah if you're dividing this dua into three ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الاخرات حسنة وقنا عذاب النار oh Allah grant us goodness in this world grant us goodness in the hereafter and save us from the punishment of the grave you would realize these two are connected to the hereafter and this one here is connected to this world it goes to show the true believers are more concerned about the hereafter than they are about this particular worldly life so I would like جنة you would like جنة we would all like paradise but in the interim we need a few things here we will endure the richest of people the poorest of people have problems the most handsome and pretty of people have problems the most healthy of people have problems these issues shall remain when you get to the hereafter no more problems why? you believed you sought Allah you did the right thing and you entered Allah's mercy but if you did not do the right thing in this world then the problems will begin in the hereafter may Allah grant us a deep a beautiful understanding this is why this dua has brought together so much of goodness ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار when we go to مكة المكرمة and we are doing the tawaf of the house of Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's a sunnah at a certain stage between the Rukن يماني and the Hajar أسود which is the last part you see the Kaaba is like a box right slightly rectangular some say it's exactly square but it's not exactly square it's shape okay the last part of it as you're circumbulating the sunnah is ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار oh Allah grant us goodness in this world grant us goodness in the hereafter and save us from the punishment of the grave the punishment of the grave if you're saved from it what is to follow he's going to be worse may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us save you from the punishment of the hereafter so today what we learned is we don't just pray for ourselves we pray for others as well we always look at the qualities of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we call him with the best of those names you know he is the best of those who have mercy etc. and also when we call out to Allah don't just call out for this world but call out for the hereafter as well here is Musa imagine he called out to Allah using similar words as Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم later on similar words as those that Allah tells us to use during the period of Hajj and not just during the period of Hajj but these du'as should be with us every single day it's amazing how some of the Imam actually say even in تشهد when we're sitting and you know we're finished with our Salawat upon the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's a time to make du'a we say اللهم إني ظلم to نفسي ظلم كثيرا Oh Allah I have wronged myself in a great way ولا يغفروا الذنوب إلا أنت and none forgives sins besides you فغفر لي مغفرة من عندك so forgive me a forgiveness from yourself ورحمني إنك أنت الغفور الرحيم and have mercy on me for indeed you are the most forgiving most merciful some of the scholars actually say you can add to that ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الأخيرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار and some say you can actually replace it with that all of that is beautiful because they are all taught to us by صلى الله عليه وسلم and these are du'as seeking forgiveness seeking help when you seek forgiveness automatically you are asking for a good hereafter so we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to bless every one of us my brothers and sisters I'm excited about the next episode by the will of الله سبحانه وتعالى we're going to go through these supplications from revelation in order for us to all benefit until then أقول قولي هذا والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته