 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين We praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم The best of creation, the most noble of all prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى His household, His companions may Allah bless them Bless every one of us grant us goodness And we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى لكي تفاعلنا في هذه المنزل والمنزل. أمين. أخي وصديقاتي وصديقاتي ، نحن نذهب إلى المنزل والمنزل ونذهب إلى الحديث من the Prophet ﷺ. عائشة رضي الله عنها. The wife of the Prophet ﷺ tells us in a narration that the Prophet ﷺ taught me the following. He told me and instructed me to make a dua to call out to Allah using the following words. And I started off this hadith and I continued. But the reason why I want to pick up from that particular point is because we need to understand the value of these words. Here is the best of creation. Speaking to his most beloved who is عائشة رضي الله عنها. Once the Prophet ﷺ was asked who do you love the most. He said عائشة. And then he says her father. سبحان الله. Which means أبو بكر. الصديق رضي الله عنه. So here is the most beloved unto Allah telling his most beloved. Something very important. What is that? He says use these words to call out to Allah. Imagine he is telling his most beloved, his wife عائشة رضي الله عنها. He is saying use these words to call out to Allah. We are so fortunate to know what those words are. Amazing. Look at the value of it سبحان الله. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى has informed us of these words. And I made mention of these words. I'm moving on to another hadith of أبو هرير رضي الله عنه. Where the Prophet ﷺ has taught us this دعاء اللهم أصلح لديني الذي هو عصمة أمري وأصلح لي دنياية التي فيها معاشي وأصلح لي آخرة التي فيها معادي وجعل الحياة زيادة لي في كل خير والموتا راحت لي من كل شرن. That O Allah. Make good for me my deen that is the most important of my affairs. Make good for me my dunya which is the world that I need to live in or in which my life is. And make good for me my hereafter where I am actually going. That much we have already covered in the previous episode. Now we go to the next part of the same دعاء the same supplication. He says the Prophet ﷺ taught him وجعل الحياة زيادة لي في كل خير. O Allah make life for me a means of increase in goodness for me. So if you are keeping me alive let that life be a means of increasing my goodness. You see if we go back to the Ambiya and the Prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we will find that Allah سبحانه وتعالى instructed for example Yunus ﷺ there is a narration that makes mention of how he would be receiving a reward a double reward. For everyone who was guided and everyone who did good. The same happens to everyone of us to a different level obviously but we also get a good reward for those whom Allah has used us to guide. Now while we are alive let that life be a means of increasing the good. Let that life be a means of increasing the good. If Allah knows that now the life that you are going to be having is not going to increase you in goodness but it's going to make things worse then that is where you say O Allah take us away. Take us away. So we're not making dua to Allah to take us away because of a problem we have a difficulty we have but because lack of obedience or lack of seriousness we might not be on the best terms with Allah the day he takes us away but it's going to make things worse on the best terms with Allah the day he takes us away and that's called a bad death. The best death is to be taken away while Allah is pleased with you and the worst death is to be taken away whilst Allah is angry with you. So وَجَعَلِ الْحَيَاتَ زِيَادَ تَلِّيْ فِي كُلِّ خَيْرْ أو الله make life goodness make life an increase in goodness for me in every way. So as long as you're keeping me alive let goodness keep on increasing and let death be a means of ease for me from all the evil. You know you're saving me from evil so whenever you decide to take me away let it be a blessed death such that I've just been saved from disaster that is to come something bad that is to come whether it is evil within or external. So the dua is so powerful saying oh Allah if you've kept me alive let that life be a means of goodness and if you've taken me away let that be a means of me being saved from calamity, disaster, negativity, etc. So I'm going to repeat this dua إن شاء الله with the idea of perhaps all of us maybe repeating or saying it with me or after me إن شاء الله calling out to Allah اللهم أصلح لي ديني الذي هو عصمة أمري وأصلح لي دنيا يلتي فيها معاشي وأصلح لي آخرتي التي فيها معادي وجعل الحياة زيادة لي في كل خير والموت راحة لي من كل شر. That is the hadith it's narrated in Sahih Muslim There are different narrations of the same hadith with slight variations in wording but that could be because the Prophet ﷺ taught it several times he may have used it several times taught it to different companions slight variations in wording you know آخرتي التي إليها معادي in one narration here it is فيها معادي So this is a beautiful narration of the Prophet ﷺ and it's a lovely dua that is the hadith of Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه the previous one was that of Aisha رضي الله عنها I'd like to move on to the narration of Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه another narration you see Allah سبحانه وتعالى instructed Muhammad ﷺ to call out to him to seek knowledge to seek increase in knowledge although Muhammad ﷺ was the most knowledgeable and although Allah سبحانه وتعالى had bestowed upon him the greatest and the highest favor Allah says وقور رب زيدني علما and say Oh my Rabb increase me in knowledge so the Prophet ﷺ having heard that he immediately used to make this dua quite often اللهم فعني بما علمتني وعلمني ما ينفعني وزيدني علما Oh Allah benefit me from the knowledge that you have granted me and grant me knowledge that is beneficial and grant me increase in knowledge so oh Allah benefit me from whatever you've taught me and teach me what will benefit me that's the literal translation of it and increase me in knowledge so this hadith is absolutely important because it shows us the various rights of knowledge we need to seek knowledge we need to benefit from the knowledge and we need to want increase in knowledge increase in knowledge will come when we have practiced upon that particular knowledge so when you practice upon knowledge you get increase the same applies to wealth when you earn you will only earn more in real terms when you start spending so there is no point in earning and amassing the Quran has actually cursed the person who has earned and amassed ويل اللي كله مزة اللمزة اللذي جمع مالا وعددة destruction be upon those who are very abusive with their tongues they lie they have deception and they despise and so on who are they the ones who gather their wealth and keep on counting it so they are miserly they come up with so much and they keep counting it and they have not benefited anyone with that wealth they haven't benefited from it as well because you only benefit from the wealth when you spend it when you use it that's the only time you actually benefit from the wealth so in this narration also we are taught that if I am to say اللهم منفعني بما علمتني oh Allah benefit me from what you've taught me that would mean I need to make an effort to put into practice what I've learnt if I've learnt what will happen is I must be able to benefit from that knowledge what's the point of having so much of knowledge and you haven't even you haven't even practiced upon that knowledge it is the point of knowledge it is a waste of knowledge isn't it so this is why the حديث says علمني ما ينفعني teach me that which will benefit me now one might say it should have been a different order oh Allah teach me that which will benefit me and benefit me from that which you've taught me teach me that which will benefit me and benefit me from that which you've taught me that's what one might have thought is the order and it is the order in another narration but this narration is correct authentic and it goes to show that what is more important is to benefit from the knowledge what is more important is to benefit from the knowledge so I have knowledge that is beneficial but have I benefited from it someone might say there is repetition in this حديث there's no repetition the reason is I can have beneficial knowledge and do nothing with it so what has happened it's beneficial it's good but I haven't benefited from it so one is to get beneficial knowledge and to benefit from the beneficial knowledge and the benefit is mentioned before getting the knowledge because of its importance because of how serious that matter is and this is why at the end it says زدني علمن oh Allah grant me increase in that particular knowledge or in knowledge this حديث is narrated in سننة ترميدي and it's something we need to constantly ask الله سبحانه وتعالى may Allah make it easy for all of us to learn and to put into practice and to convey to others I sometimes sit and I think how the صحابة رضي الله عنهم the wives of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم how seriously they took up a knowledge and the study of knowledge they passed on the baton generations it is as fresh as ever and it's come to us when we sit with the Qur'an we know for a fact that these are the words of Allah unchanged uncontaminated although it's 1400 and 30 odd years later but سبحان الله we are convinced the same applies to the حديث of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم there are narrations when we are so convinced these are the words of the Prophet as fresh as ever because we know they made a great effort my brothers and sisters surely we could make even a small effort and inshallah we would be earning the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I want to actually move on to another beautiful very very important حديث of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم where he used to say the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say this is a beautiful حديث it has many different narrations many different wordings so the one wordings that I've made mentioned of here is امام احمد there is another one which says you see the greatest sin that could be committed by mankind is شرك شرك meaning association of partnership with Allah sometimes people don't know or they don't realize or they don't you know pay attention to certain things that could just be شرك it could be association of partnership with Allah it's important that we give this matter you know great relevance because it is a matter that is very very serious where Allah says I will forgive anything but شرك I won't forgive surely we should be talking about it it's something serious because some people don't like to talk about it they say what's this you know why should we keep repeating this issue because that's the only thing Allah says if you were to do it I'm not going to forgive you if you were to do it I'm not going to forgive you so I'm going to be speaking about it you should be speaking about it everyone should be speaking about it and whenever someone speaks about it we should be from among those who realize its importance so much so that the prophet peace be upon him himself has taught the people this is a hadith of أبو موسى الأشعري رضي الله عنه he says the prophet gave us a lecture one day and he says يا أيها الناس اتقوا هذا شرك you know be careful of this shirk be careful of it and the hadith goes on to say that he taught us a dua he taught us a dua that we should say اللهم إنا نعود بك من أن نشرك بك شيء أن نعلمه ونستغفيرك لماذا نعلم oh Allah we seek your protection we seek your protection from having engaged in any participation of or in any association of partnership with you that which we know and we seek your forgiveness for that which we don't even know سبحان الله so it shows us that there are two different aspects that which you know that which you don't even realize you know my brothers and sisters when we sin sometimes we don't even realize we sinning because it's become so common sometimes you know we backbite without realizing you're backbiting we engage in slander sometimes without realizing I forwarded a message I've spread something and it's a major slander so sometimes we become you know subconsciously we just pass it through without thinking this is where we need to improve إن شاء الله we need to start becoming more conscious of what we say what we do what we forward what we receive and so on even on our mobile devices which is you know the current device of the age the mobile device and we're so into knowing what's happening in everybody's life that is quite dangerous but that having been said that is connected to sin that is connected to participating in that which would displease Allah by doing what he doesn't want you to do which is lesser than شرك however there is something far greater than mere sin and that is شرك it is association of partnership with Allah سبحانه و تعالى not only should we be careful of it learn what it's all about so that you know what it is and what it's not but you should also ask Allah to protect you from شرك O Allah protect me from شرك when last did we say that let's be honest O Allah protect me from شرك O Allah protect me from association of partnership with you I can't remember when last we've said that سبحان الله here is a dua the Sahaba رضي الله عنهم are saying that O Allah that the Prophet ﷺ is teaching them this dua O Allah we seek your protection we seek refuge in you from شرك from committing شرك which is association of partnership with you in a way that we know and we ask your forgiveness for that which we don't know may Allah سبحانه و تعالى make us from among those who really understand this issue you know when Luqman the wise who was according to the narrations he was from Noba he was from Sudan an African Allah makes mention of him in the Quran because of his advice Allah makes mention of him in the Quran because of the advice he gave his son the first piece of advice he gave his son و إذ قال لُقْمَان لِبْنِهِ وَهُوَ يَعِظُمُوا يَا بُنَيَّا لَا تُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ إِنَّ الشِرْكَ لَظُلْمُنْ عَظِيمُ remember when Luqman gave his son advice while he was advising him he said to him O my dear son do not perpetrate shirk do not engage in shirk do not associate partners with Allah for indeed that is the biggest sin you could commit سبحان الله here is the man giving the pieces of advice he starts off with one factor that we don't even talk about sometimes may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make us from those who understand and realize so my brothers and sisters we move on to another hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this time of Abdullah ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما it's a powerful narration as well and it goes to show that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was indeed sent as as a mercy to us he was indeed sent as a mercy he taught us every single thing the صحاب رضي الله عنهما say ما ترك خيرا إلا ودلنا عليه ولا شرا إلا حذرنا منه there is no goodness that he forgot to teach us every goodness he taught us and there is no evil that he did not warn us about so we really have to praise Allah for this beautiful gift that he has bestowed upon us so this narration of Abdullah ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما he says the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say he used to say so he didn't just say it once كان يقول he used to say اللهم لك أسلم تو Oh Allah unto you I have submitted for you I've submitted now I want to pause for a moment and remind you while you are listening to this every one of us should be thinking about it for ourselves Oh Allah for you I have submitted اللهم لك أسلم تو Oh Allah for you I have submitted و بك أمن تو and in you I have believed Oh Allah I have submitted unto you and I believe in you و عليك توقل تو and I have laid my full trust in you this is the beginning of a beautiful supplication و إليك أنبتو and I have turned to you I have returned to you you know to come back to الله سبحانه وتعالى in obedience و بك خاصم تو and through you I argue you know when we have an argument when we have a dispute it's all through Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's for the sake of Allah and it's with the name of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so it's either to portray the truth or it is to achieve justice it is الخاصم actually means a dispute and خاصم here could mean you know when the argument or the dispute when we say through Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's for Allah it's for the sake of Allah either to achieve clarity about worship regarding who Allah is etc. or even just for justice so Oh Allah it is through you that I argue or dispute اللهم إني أعوذ بإزتك Oh Allah I seek refuge in I seek refuge in your power I seek refuge in your power from what now before making mention of from what the the du'as pauses for a moment and it says لا إله إلا أنت there is none worthy of worship besides you so it's worded this way اللهم إني أعوذ بإزتك لا إله إلا أنت أنتو ضل لني Oh Allah I seek refuge in your power in your might and there is none worthy of worship besides you from being led astray you see so it's actually the the middle of that has in it لا إله إلا أنت there is none worthy of worship besides you Oh Allah I seek the protection in your power there is none worthy of worship besides you from being led astray سبحان الله اللهم إني أعوذ بإزتك لا إله إلا أنت أنتو ضل لني سبحان الله now it continues praising Allah أنت الحي الذي لا يموت والجن والإنسو يموتون you are the all living you are the ever living the one who does not die but as for mankind and jinn kind they will die so the du'a here is only asking الله that we be saved from being misguided that's all but look at the introduction the praising of Allah Oh Allah I surrender to you I believe in you I lay my trust in you I return to you I through you I dispute and argue Oh Allah I seek protection in your power there is none worthy of worship besides you from being led astray you are the all living the ever living who does not die the jinn and the ins you know humankind jinn kind they do die سبحان الله so this is something really amazing it's a hadith رواه الإمام مسلم and it goes to show that we will surrender to Allah and this is actually a beautiful du'a that we can make all the time Oh Allah I surrender to you I believe in you you know when I'm dispute it's you that I'm always always after Oh Allah and I want you to protect me from misguidance and it also goes to show how serious the issue of misguidance is you know when people are misguided it is the worst thing that could happen to someone guidance is in the hands of Allah so definitely we need to ask Allah guidance and Allah allows that misguidance therefore we ask him to protect us from misguidance as well so my brothers and sisters that's the beautiful hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم إن شاء الله I look forward to the next episode and until then أقول قولي هذا والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله