 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In the name of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Most gracious, most merciful الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على المبعوث رحمة للعالمين نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحابه والتابعين ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين وبعد We praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى We send blessings and salutations upon the one who was sent to mankind as a mercy محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم his companions, his household may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless all those who followed with or in goodness right up to the end and may we be included in that and our offspring Amin my brothers, my sisters the supplications of Rasul الله صلى الله عليه وسلم are amazing they are amazing they are so relevant in our lives where we see we are suffering from laziness anxiety we have the same concerns regarding being engulfed by debt being overtaken by an enemy etc. and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم made all these du'a or supplications and we have it literally given to us on a plate سبحان الله on a platter and we still don't make use of these beautiful blessed words so Insha'Allah the idea of this entire series is to conscientize us regarding these beautiful supplications and for us to be able to learn them put them into practice call out to Allah and like I've said in several of these episodes even if you have not yet memorized the Arabic start saying this in English or in any other language and Allah سبحانه وتعالى will open your doors the Hadith that I'd like to start off with today is the Hadith of Aisha رضي الله عنها where in she says the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الكسل والهرم والمأثم والمغرم ومن فتنة القبري وعذاب القبري ومن فتنة النار وعذاب النار ومن شر فتنة الغنا وأعوذ بك من فتنة الفقري وأعوذ بك من فتنة المسيح الدجال اللهم اللهم مغسل عني خطايايا بماء بماء الثلجي والبردي ونقق قلب من الخطايا كما نقيت الثوب الأبيض من الدنس وباعد بيني وبين خطايايا كما باعدت بين المشرق والمغرب سبحان الله فوق الأعمال this has been passed on him ما هو قو matteum So he meaning of this du A is Oh Allah I seek your protection from laziness and from old age and I seek your protection from sin so protect me from sinning and I seek your protection from debt you know debt meaning owing people money and this brings me to a very interesting factor أن تستطيع أن تذهب عن الناس when we don't really need. It's only when you're in a dire need that you actually are allowed to go and ask people, I can't manage, I can't cope, I need to borrow some money, please can you give me some money, I will give it back to you etc. But if you're just going to ask the people when you don't really need then Allah is not going to help you to pay back because it becomes a bad habit. People want to live beyond their means. May Allah SWT make us from those who understand, those who can budget correctly when we actually are spending. So oh Allah, I seek your protection from laziness, from old age, from sin and from debt. And I seek your protection from the trials of the grave and the punishment of the grave. Two things I made mention of. The trials of the grave and the punishment of the grave. And I seek your protection from the trials of the fire and from the punishment of the fire. It's amazing how there are trials of the fire and there is punishment of the fire. And I seek your protection from the harms of wealth. Amazing. From the harm of being wealthy. What could that be? Arrogance, hortiness, a person who has become so bad in qualities and character because of the money, wastefulness, extravagance, all those are sins of being wealthy. So the Prophet SAW is asking Allah SWT to protect him from the evil of the trials of being wealthy. The bad habits that come with wealth. Subhanallah. The bad that comes with wealth. And the evil of the trials of wealth also may include the jealousy of others, the envy of others. Oh Allah, protect me from all of that. Because I've got people become jealous, envious, they want to harm, they want to falsely accuse, etc. All of that. Oh Allah, protect me from it. Oh Allah, I seek your protection from the harmful trials of wealth. Subhanallah. Amazing. It's amazing how it's worded. Because it's something that's even difficult to explain in the English language or in another language. It's unique. It's the gift of the Prophet SAW of a few words having deep understanding and having deep rich meaning. Then he says And I seek protection in you from the trials and difficulties of poverty. Look at how he made a dua to protect him from the evil of wealth. The evils of being wealthy. And then he says and from the trials of being poor. Both the duas are here. No one can say he missed something out. Because he is saying, oh Allah, protect me from poverty. And protect me if I were to be given wealth from the harm that that wealth comes with. Subhanallah. Amazing. Amazing. These words, they bring tears to the eyes because we think of how the Prophet SAW He didn't really need all of this. But he called out to Allah. He called out to Allah. How much do we call out to Allah? How much do we call out to Allah? Have you ever said? Have I ever said, oh Allah, protect me from the evil that will come with wealth? I can be honest with you. Beside from the حديث and reading the حديث and going through the حديث. I cannot remember actually calling out to Allah. Subhanallah. But now I'm going to become more conscious of it. And I invite you all to become more conscious of it. Oh Allah, protect me from the evil and the trials of wealth and being wealthy. I may not be wealthy right now. But the money that comes into my pocket. Subhanallah. Do you know, some things come to my mind right now. When we have wealth, we have to pay zakah. Zakah is compulsory. You have to give a certain percentage. When that wealth becomes so much, Shaytan can come to you and start making you miscalculate. Or try to say, no, I don't have to give so much and this and that. Because it becomes difficult. When the figure becomes huge, the percentage is the same. But the figure becomes more difficult to give. Imagine 2.5% of 100 is only 2.5 pounds or 2.5 dollars. But 2.5% of 100 million is what? Subhanallah. Are you ready to give that? May Allah make it easy for us. So these are some of the trials of wealth that the Prophet is asking Allah to protect him from. And what about us? We ask Allah to grant us wealth, to grant us sustenance, to make us rich. But we forget to ask Him. Oh Allah, protect us from the evil that's going to come with that. Protect us from the evil that might come with it. And that does come generally with wealth. So this is the beauty of the wording of the Prophet ﷺ. He says, firstly, he says, oh Allah, protect me from the evil of the trials of wealth. And then he says, oh Allah, protect me from the trials of poverty as well. Poverty comes with a lot of trials. Subhanallah. May Allah grant all those who are struggling financially. May He grant them ease and sustenance. May He bless every one of us with beautiful sustenance that is pure and that we will be able to use in his obedience and not in his disobedience. Amen. Then the dua continues. And I seek your protection from the trials and tribulations of the false messiah. Of Ad-Dajjal. The Jal is whom we know we've heard of in the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. This one-eyed man who is a huge person who's going to be coming to create havoc on Earth and to wreak havoc on Earth. The Prophet ﷺ used to make dua to Allah to protect him from the trials and tribulations of that false messiah. Which means that the Jal. May Allah ﷻ protect us from him and protect us from all the fitna that surrounds him. When he comes, he will come with a few things. He will say he is the Lord and the God. Whoever believes that he is not the Lord and the God shall be harmed. Probably killed. He will say that he owns sustenance. You want, you disbelieve in Allah ﷻ, you believe in him, you follow him, you obey his orders. He will provide for you. If you don't believe that, he will harm you, perhaps even kill you. He will come with so much of trials and tribulations. He believes and he will say that he is the one who actually controls the produce and the rain, etc. And if you don't follow him and take him as a God, he won't give you. So those are the trials and tribulations of Al-Masi-Haddajal as well. At any time when you have a person or when you have a force that happens to be calling in the same direction, they will be considered a force that is a devilish force with this impact. We are asking Allah ﷻ to protect us from. May Allah ﷻ protect us from that. May he make it easy for us to worship him. To worship him. Meaning Allah ﷻ and Allah ﷻ alone. Amen. Then the Prophet ﷺ said. Wash away from me my sins. And the Prophet ﷺ had no sins. So he is saying. Oh Allah ﷻ wash away from me my sins. With the water of ice and snow, سبحان الله. You know, the hailstones we have, the ice we have, the snow we have. All this cold, cold water. Why is it that when the sins are being spoken about, then ice and snow is used to refer to the washing away of the sins? Because the sins have a heat. The heat of the punishment of Allah ﷻ. When you commit a sin, there is heat. There is heat to the sin. So you are saying. Oh Allah ﷻ, cool me down. Calm me down. Let me not commit sin and wash my sins away in this, with that cold icy water that is filled with, you know, برد and ثلج. The ice, the hail, the snow, سبحان الله. مير الله سبحانه وتعالى. واشا و سنز away. This is a beautiful dua. اللهم مغسل عني خطا يايا بما إيثلج والبرد. This is one wording. It's a hadith which is متفق علي. But there are other wordings as well where اللهم, there are different, you know, words used and the order is slightly different. But this meaning is quite much the same. And then the hadith continues. و نقلبي من الخطايا. Or Allah ﷻ, purify my heart from the sins. The effects of the sins. Purify my heart from the effects of the sins. كما نقيت ثوب الأبيض من الدنس. In the same way that you purified the white clothing from impurity. From impurity. From dirt. You know when you have something white, it has dirt and it's washed. It's washed in a beautiful way with detergent and what have you. And then you see it's so white. So Allah ﷻ is being asked saying, Oh Allah, wash my heart. Cleanse my heart from sin. The same way you cleanse the white cloth or the white clothing from dirt and impurity. و باعد بيني و بين خطا يايا كما باعدت بين المشرق والمغرب. Oh Allah, create a distance between me and my sins. In the same way that you have created the distance between the east and the west. سبحان الله. That's an amazing du'a. Oh Allah, distance. Create a distance between me and my sins. In the same way you created the distance between the east and the west. Make me from among those whom you've wiped the sins out. You've made everyone and everything. Forget about them and you've kept a distance between me and those sins. Whenever there is a sin to be committed, distance me from that sin. Whenever there is something bad, harmful, create an obstacle so that I don't commit that sin. And whatever I have done, purify me, cleanse me in the same way that white cloth is cleansed and make me from among those who is pure, pure once again. Create a distance such that I don't even think of those sins again. May Allah SWT protect us from sin and grant us what the Prophet SAW is asking him in this beautiful hadith of Aisha. رضي الله عنها which is متفق عليه. So when we start our Salah, there is something called al-istiftaah which is a du'a that commences the Salah. Generally we say سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك ولا إله غيرك. You know we praising Allah SWT declaring His greatness, His loftiness, His status and asking Allah SWT saying that there is none worthy of worship besides Him. And then we continue with our Salah. One of the du'as is also this. اللهم بعيد بيني وبين خطاياية كما باعدت بين المشرق والمغرب. Oh Allah create a distance between myself and my sins in the same way that you have created the distance between the east and the west which means make me far away from my sins. May Allah SWT bless us all and grant us ease and give us from this beautiful du'a. Just to recap quickly before we move on to the next du'a. This du'a is the du'a of عيشة رضي الله عنها. She says the Prophet SAW used to say oh Allah protect me from kasal, laziness, haram, old age, ma'tham, sins, ma'hram, debt. فتنة القبر وعذاب القبر the trials of the grave and the punishment of the grave. فتنة النار وعذاب النار the trials of the fire and the punishment of the fire. ومين شر فتنة الغنة and the evil trials of wealth and rich and being rich. وعود بك من فتنة الفقري and I seek protection from you oh Allah. I seek protection in you from the trials of being poor or poverty. وعود بك من فتنة المسيح الدجال and I seek protection in you from the trials of the مسيح الدجال the false messiah the one I devil as we call him and الله مرس العني خطايايا oh Allah wash away my sins with cold icy snowy water سبحان الله سبحان الله that's amazing and like I explained why ice and why cold because the sins have a heat and that heat needs to be extinguished it calms you down you're saying oh Allah the sin that I that the heat keeps making me go back to wash me wash that away from me with cold water so I'm calm I'm relaxed there's no longer that heat to make me commit the sin سبحان الله it's amazing the wording is absolutely superb it's absolutely superb the explanation of it by the محديثين is something mind boggling but I've just touched on it and then the last part of it oh Allah you know cleanse my heart from sin in the same way you cleanse the white cloth or the white clothing from impurity and distance create a distance between me and my sins in the same way that you have created the distance between the east and the west amazing دعاء of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I want to move on to another دعاء which is also very very powerful it's a hadith of Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه he says the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said تعود بالله seek the protection of Allah so this is an instruction of the Prophet to all of us seek the protection of Allah from the following من جهد البلاء ودرك الشقائي وسوء القضائي وشماتة الأهداي it's just amazing how the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is speaking about it جهد البلاء oh Allah he's asking us to seek the protection of protection in Allah from so we are seeking the protection of Allah from the following جهد البلاء you know the بلاء meaning difficulties hardship the difficulties of the trials the difficulties of the trials ودرك الشقاء and شقاء is the opposite of سعادة سعادة is happiness so sadness you know that sadness overtakes us the destruction the destruction that comes with it وسوء القضاء and bad destiny you know make the destiny that you've destined for us good we seek your protection from the evil of the destiny the evil of destiny we want you to take us to a good place we want you to have destined for us goodness so protect us from the evil of that destiny وشماتة الأهدا and the enemies being given the opportunity to laugh at us سبحان الله you know sometimes something happens I give you a typical example of children you just had a little fight with someone and as you're walking away having been victorious you trip and everyone laughs at you that's شماتة الأهدا that's a simple way of explaining it to say something happened to you that made the enemies just laugh to say wow look you it serves you right so to speak so we are asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى to protect us from the turning of that in such a way that the enemies are given the opportunity to laugh at us and this is why the hadith of ابن عمر رضي الله عنهما he says the prophet ﷺ used to say اللهم إني أعوذ بك من زوالي نعمتك oh Allah I seek protection I seek protection in you from the departure of the gifts that you've given me the boons what you've bestowed upon me Allah gives us gifts sometimes he takes it away oh Allah don't take away my gifts don't take away what you've given me what you've bestowed upon me اللهم إني أعوذ بك من زوالي نعمتك oh Allah I seek your protection from the gifts you've bestowed upon us being taken away what is the نعمة إيمان إسلام your wealth your health your family whatever else Allah has given you a lot of us are guilty of not asking Allah for protection from taking all that away it's sad so Allah سبحانه وتعالى is telling us through the blessed lips of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to call out to him to say oh Allah I seek your protection from taking away these gifts that you've bestowed upon me what تحولي عافية and the turning of the the good health that you've given me the purity that you've given me the chastity that you've given me whatever goodness you've given me oh Allah don't let it turn around you know things can happen suddenly and that's why the last part of the hadith says the دعاء وفجاءة نقمتك you know oh Allah don't let the retribution come suddenly you know you do a bad deed you want a little bit of time to repent to Allah سبحانه وتعالى you don't want the punishment to descend immediately so you ask Allah oh Allah delay me a little bit you know meaning don't let the retribution come instantly may Allah سبحانه وتعالى never take away the goodness that he's bestowed upon us may Allah سبحانه وتعالى never ever punish us immediately upon a sin that we commit but rather may he give us time to repent may we be from among those who repent quickly and Allah سبحانه وتعالى here is also addressing us because obviously it's in the form of a دعاء it's from the lips of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he said this دعاء he used to use he used to use these words اللهم اني اعود بك من زوال نعمتك وتحول عافيتك وفجاءة نقمتك وجميع سخطك and oh Allah I seek your protection from all of your anger anything that makes you upset and angry oh Allah protect me from that may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us goodness my brothers my sisters look at these words imagine if Allah were to suddenly and quickly and immediately punish us for what we did that was wrong we would never have had any hope of survival because the type of deeds we do we are so embarrassed of them that we hide away from other human beings who are not even accountable for our accounts we hide away from them but we don't realize the one whom we are going to be giving that entire account to is Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this is the Allah whom we actually sometimes think that we can get away from may Allah سبحانه وتعالى have mercy on us may Allah open our doors may Allah grant us goodness may Allah protect us from our good deeds being taken away may Allah protect us from the goodness that He has given us being taken away may Allah protect us from evil befalling us may Allah protect us from the health and the wealth that He has given us being taken away and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى protect us from doing deeds that would displease Him in any way my brothers and sisters I look forward to the next episode of this beautiful series until then I say السلام عليكم ورحمة