 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Welcome back to this beautiful beautiful series we have this year It is known as supplications from revelation Every one of us makes dua We call out to Allah We need to know how to call out to Allah We want our du'as to be accepted And we are looking at those du'as mentioned in revelation Revelation includes the Quran And the Sunnah of Muhammad ﷺ بسم الله و الحمد لله والسلام و على عبد الله و رسوله محمد و على عاله و صحابه أجمعين We praise Allah سبحانه و تعالى We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad ﷺ The best of creation The most noble of all messengers of Allah سبحانه و تعالى His household companions And every one of us may Allah bless us And grant us the best month of Ramadhan أمين My brothers and sisters Episode number two We ended by making mention of the prophets of Allah سبحانه و تعالى And the fact that they called out to Allah In Surah Al-Anbiya Verse number ninety Allah سبحانه و تعالى says إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات Let me recite this beautiful verse إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات و يدعوننا رغب و رهب و كانوا لنا خاشعين Indeed they used to make haste They used to make haste in doing good deeds They used to compete when it comes to doing good deeds And they used to call out to us with two qualities For indeed they were the ones who were humble They were filled with humility They were obedient What are these two qualities? رغبا و رهبا They had hope when they called out to Allah That Allah would answer them And they were fearful as well Of the wrath of Allah The punishment of Allah Anything negative So it's amazing When I'm in need I have a fear A fear of what? A fear that there is something I want and I need How do I get it? There are so many ways of doing it Allah has given me a capacity I may go out to look for the job I don't know if the job is going to be good for me I don't know if what I want is going to be good for me Say for example those who are sick and ill May Allah grant them cure If you're looking for cure You're going to go to this doctor You might want to go to another For a second opinion But in the interim Through that fear When you call out to Allah It brings within you a hope It brings within you a hope Hope in the mercy of Allah I know of so many people whom The doctors have written off That you have so much to live And that's it Limited amount of time And they're still living I know of plenty Who was that? That was Allah That was Allah The maker May Allah SWT Cure to all those who are sick and ill So this du'a This description of the way The messengers used to call out Is important because I need to learn from it When Allah says أُلَا إِكَ الَّذِينَ هَدَ اللَّهُ فَبِهُدَهُ مُقُوتَ دِهِ Those are the ones Who are rightly guided So with their guidance You should follow And you should make sure That you are following that guidance Of the messengers Subhan Allah So when they called out to Allah What did they do? They called out to Allah Having hope in the mercy of Allah Knowing that Allah is going to respond And at the same time They had fear They had a sense of consciousness of Allah Knowing that if Allah doesn't help Who's going to help? So when we call out to Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala We should definitely be from among those Who understand this So my brothers and sisters I'm going to give you A few of these du'as Of the prophets of Allah They sought forgiveness From Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Isn't it strange? Isn't it amazing? You have Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم Flawless No sense Nothing against his name That is negative And he's seeking the forgiveness of Allah And he's calling out to Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Surely those of us Who are his followers Need to make sure we've taken that And we will repeat it We will do it exactly How he did it Subhanallah But let's look at the previous prophets Also معصومين Chosen by Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Speaks to us about How Adam عليه السلام Called out I already made mention of that In the previous episode Then I want to move on to Nuh The prophet Noah May peace be upon him What happened at the time of the prophet Nuh عليه السلام He asked Allah to save his son Now many of us have children May Allah bless those Who don't have children With children Amin And may Allah bless those Who have children That those children Would be the coolness of their eyes Amin Nuh عليه السلام Had a son Who did not want to listen to him So when Nuh عليه السلام Told him I'm a prophet of Allah You need to worship Allah alone He just went away And he decided He doesn't want He's going to climb the mountain When the water started coming And the rains And all the water was gushing From everywhere He decided You know what I'm going to climb the mountain Nuh عليه السلام Says No my son Come But he didn't So Nuh عليه السلام Was saddened Because obviously His son Did not accept the message So He had asked Allah To save his son But the son was not saved Later on He realized That you know what I shouldn't have done that Now we wouldn't even consider This a sin Or something We need to seek the forgiveness Of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى For Take a look at the high level Of these prophets Of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى Their status Was so high That what we don't even consider Something You need to seek forgiveness For They sought forgiveness For that So Nuh عليه السلام Says ربي إني أعوذ بك أن أسألك ما ليس لي به علم Amazing verse This verse is in Surat Hud Verse number 47 Nuh عليه السلام Is saying Oh my God Oh my God I am seeking protection in you From having asked you that Which I don't have knowledge Wow We don't even consider that a sin You know I asked Allah Allah didn't give me Okay So الله أكبر May Allah not do that to us But I am just giving you an example Nuh عليه السلام Says Oh my God Save my son And The son was not saved And he said Oh my God I seek your protection From having asked you something That I don't have knowledge about الله أكبر و إلا تغفرني وترحمني أكم من الخاسرين If you don't forgive me And you don't have mercy on me I am going to be From those who are the losers I'm going to be from the losers My brothers and sisters Do you notice the similarity Between Adam عليه السلام's دعاء And Nuh عليه السلام's دعاء They were not too far of Apparently According to the narrations There were only 10 generations Of people between Nuh And Adam عليه السلام He's calling out Saying the same thing Oh Allah If you don't forgive me You don't have mercy on me I'm going to be From amongst the losers In that case They said If you don't forgive us And if you don't have mercy on us We will be from among the losers Who was that? Adam and Eve حوا عليه السلام And here it is Nuh How many of us When we call out to Allah We say Oh Allah forgive me If you don't forgive me And if you don't have mercy upon me I'm going to be From the losers الله أكبر Don't you think we should add that In our duas Oh Allah If you don't have mercy on me If you don't forgive me I'm going to be From the losers Look Adam عليه السلام Said exactly the same thing Nuh عليه السلام For something else Totally is saying the same thing وإلا تغفر لي وترحمي أكم من الخاسرين I'm going to be From among the losers And Allah سبحانه و تعالى Responded to him In such a beautiful way I want to move on To another dua A dua of Ibrahim عليه السلام You and I Know Ibrahim عليه السلام Had a special relationship With Allah Allah tested him so much One after the other He kept on calling out to Allah With us We have tests That Allah places in our lives One after the other Five six And we become despondent We want to lose faith We want to lose hope In the mercy of Allah But go back And look at those Who are better than you Better than I They had more hope And they suffered Much more than you And I Ibrahim عليه السلام One after the other So many things happened I want to actually Concentrate on the supplication He says رب الغفر لي ولي ولي دي ولي المؤمنين يوم يقوم الحساب صورة إبراهيم The whole chapter is named after him He says Oh Allah forgive me My parents And all the believers on the day That you will take the accounts The day of reckoning What do I learn from this Ibrahim عليه السلام He made dua for his parents This was prior to the prohibition Of making dua for those Who passed away on disbelief For their mercy But besides that His concern was not about himself alone How many of us When we call out to Allah We're just worried about ourselves Oh Allah give me Give me Give me I want I'll have I want Or my children And that's it It stops at your children Make dua for yourself Yes Your family members Definitely Broaden it The community Not only that All those to come Those who have passed What does it cost you To include them Oh Allah have mercy On every one of us I mean What does it cost you To include them Why become stingy Miserly Negedly When it comes to dua It's not something material You're losing nothing In fact You're gaining Because when you pray for others The angels are praying for you So here Ibrahim عليه السلام Says oh my Rab Notice he's using also The term رب ربنا There's ربي We spoke about That here is ربنا ربنا غفير اللي Oh Allah forgive me My parents My family members And the مؤمنين The day of reckoning So His mind is gone far His belief is gone far He believes that There is a day of reckoning Indeed It's manifest from his dua And he's gone so far That oh Allah forgive All of us He didn't say Those I got along with Forgive them Those I didn't get along with Punished them Etc. No You need to be broad You need to have a good heart You need to open that heart Oh Allah Forgive us سبحان الله This is a beautiful Du'a of Ibrahim عليه السلام And then There is another Du'a of Ibrahim عليه السلام Where he says والذي أطنع أن يغفر لي خطيئة يوم الدين He says And he is the one He was describing Allah He is the one whom I have hoped That he will forgive My sins On the day of judgment Brothers and sisters Learn to have hope In the mercy of Allah Have hope in the mercy Of Allah No matter what you've done No matter what you're trying to achieve Have hope in the mercy Of Allah Allah will never leave you For as long as you do not leave Allah If you leave Allah You'll be a goner سبحان الله نسوا الله فنحن And if you leave Allah You'll be a goner سبحان الله نسوا الله نسوا الله فنسواهم The Quran says They forgot Allah So then Allah left them But for as long as you have Allah Flickering in your heart Allah is with you Never lose hope Don't allow the devil to come to you To make you think That you know what There is no mercy of Allah for me There will always be mercy of Allah Even upon your deathbed The best thing you could have Is hope in the mercy of Allah Hope That the hereafter Is going to be better Than this life Many people ill and sick On their deathbeds And people don't know what to tell them Remind them of their good deeds Remind them of the mercy of Allah Remind them of the beauty of Jannah And tell them you are definitely going to Jannah تلفردوس By the will of Allah If you had iman And you tried And you believed in Allah Well, there is good waiting for you It can never be bad for a mu'min من الله سبحانه و تعالى Grant us protection Then إبرايم عليه السلام As he was going through The instruction Of Allah سبحانه و تعالى He always called out to Allah It was not enough for him To just do what Allah wanted And then carry on No He always said Oh Allah accept it from us Oh Allah forgive us Let's take a look at The example in Surah Al-Baqara He says Show us Show us our acts of worship And forgive us For indeed you are The most forgiving The most merciful We learn a lot from this دعاء Of إبرايم عليه السلام دعاء meaning supplication We learn a lot from it He says Oh Allah show us Our acts of worship Show us how you want to be worshipped He didn't just do Whatever he wanted And said Right Allah will take it Because you know what My heart is sincere He actually said Oh Allah guide us Show us how you want to be worshipped Then he says And forgive us We're going to try Our best to fulfill What you've asked us To fulfill in the best possible way And we want you to forgive Our shortcomings We want you to forgive That which we know The sins we've committed And even the shortfall In the worship That we are supposed to be fulfilling For your sake So Oh Allah Forgive us توب علينا Why إنك أنت التواب الرحيم You are the one Who is most forgiving Most merciful تواب is a name of Allah That refers to The one who constantly forgives One after the other Didn't I tell you You did one thing You did two things Three things Five things Ten things Keep on seeking When you repeat it Repetition helps you When you have a du'a You want to make Keep repeating the du'a I remember a time When I made a du'a And I kept repeating this du'a That some people considered impossible And I repeated it so much And so often Morning, afternoon, evening and night One du'a Together with praising Allah And all other things And a time came Some years later When I was given that Subhanallah In a miraculous way I'm talking of myself I'm sure there are so many of us Who have similar examples But the best examples Are those of the prophets of Allah Here They always had hope Oh Allah You are the most forgiving Most merciful May Allah SWT Grant us forgiveness I'm showing you The verses of the Quran Supplications The seeking of forgiveness Of the prophets of Allah Yet they did not need it Look at Musa A.S. Musa A.S. Once he had punched someone Allah took that person's life away Right? And he felt it And he was so so remorseful And immediately He felt a regret Within a split moment He said ظلمت نفسي Oh Allah I've wronged myself Notice the same word Used by Adam عليه السلام ظلمت نفسي They said ظلمنا أنفسنا How many of us say Oh Allah I've wronged myself Oh Allah I've wronged myself قال ربي إني ظلمت نفسي فاغفرني Oh Allah This is Musa A.S. saying Oh Allah Oh my Rabb I have wronged myself So forgive me Just that one word فاغفرني So forgive me So Allah says فغفر له So he forgave him He asked Allah's forgiveness Sincerely With remorse, repentance And Allah says We forgave him What did it require of him In terms of words ربي إني ظلمت نفسي فاغفرني Oh my Rabb I have wronged myself So forgive me Allah says فغفر له So Allah forgave him Wow As simple as that And we are busy sitting here Losing hope to say Oh you know I think I've done too much And I think it's You know Allah Won't forgive me I've come across So many people who keep saying this It's dangerous No Be determined Seek the forgiveness of Allah But you need to believe That you've wronged yourself Because when you commit a sin You're not harming Allah You're not taking anything away From the kingdom of Allah But rather you are harming yourself So seek the forgiveness of Allah And Allah سبحانه وتعالى Will forgive you And you know what In that verse The verse of Surah Al-Qasas Verse number 16 Allah says إنه هو الغفور الرحيم Indeed Allah is most forgiving Most merciful You see تواب is also The one who forgives often تواب تواب is actually The one who accepts The return of those Who are returning to him And غفور is the one Who forgives سبحان الله So there is The difference between the two Is something interesting One is When you return to Allah You've changed your ways Your habits You know that Everything has changed I'm تواب I've come back to Allah I've come back to Allah تاعب I've returned to Allah It's as good as you've You're not committing any sin before التاعب من الذنبي كملا ذنبلا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم Says the one Who sought forgiveness from sin Is equivalent to He who did not commit sin at all سبحان الله Why? Because you changed your life غفور here Is referring to Allah forgiving And Allah keeps forgiving And that's the mercy Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى So Allah says إنه هو الغفور الرحيم Then When Musa عليه السلام was entering When he was tasked To go to the Pharaoh And he's going to فرعون He says رب غفر لي ولي أخي وأدخلنا في رحمتك وأنت أرحم الراحمين Oh our Lord Forgive me Oh my Lord Forgive me and my brother Oh my Lord Forgive me and my brother And enter us Into your mercy We want you to شاور upon us your mercy We want to have taste And feel The mercy of yours Oh Allah رب غفر لي ولي أخي وأدخلنا في رحمتك وأنت أرحم الراحمين That is in Surah Al-A'raf Verse number 140 In fact verse number 151 So My brothers and sisters Here again Mention is made of The qualities of Allah Some of the qualities of Allah The names of Allah The names of Allah سبحانه وتعالى When you want to seek The forgiveness of Allah Declare his praise Make sure you know The names of Allah A few of the names of Allah سبحانه وتعالى You use them Look he's saying We want your mercy You are the owner of mercy That's why we say When you want cure You say اللهمش في يا شافي Oh Allah cure us You are the owner of cure Oh يا شافي إشفيني Oh owner of cure Cure me يا رزاق ورزقني Oh owner of sustenance Grant me sustenance So you are actually declaring That Allah is the owner Of what you are asking for No association of partnership When we are calling out to Allah We are calling out to Allah alone That's the secret of سورة الفاتحة سورة الفاتحة Teach us this to us And all the prophets Have done exactly the same They say You are the one You are the owner of mercy You are the owner of forgiveness You are the most merciful If you don't have mercy on us We are the ones who are going to lose So this is also a very Very good du'a That we learn from Musa A.S. Another du'a Is the du'a of Sulayman There are more du'as Of Musa A.S. But we want to move Inshallah The du'a of Sulayman A.S. He made such a powerful du'a Allah tested him One after the other And this du'a That he made He was granted Imagine the type of love Allah has had For his messengers May Allah love us With similar love Say Ameen Sulayman A.S. Says And this verse Is in Surat Sa'd Verse number 35 He says Oh my Lord Forgive me And grant me kingdom That no one after me Would have For indeed You are the grantor You are the one Who gives gifts Wahhab Ahiba is a gift And Wahhab is the one Who gives gifts Who gives gifts If you want a gift Of Allah You seek from Allah And you call him Al-Wahhab Ya Wahhab Habli Normally when we are Asking for children The term used is Habli You know Grant me Al-Wahhab Ya Wahhab Habli ذرية طيبة We are going to come To that du'a Insha'Allah when we speak About Zakariya A.S. Here we are speaking About Sulayman A.S. Saying Oh Allah forgive me And grant me I think it's Important for us To know that Without that forgiveness Don't expect to have From Allah Something We seek Allah's forgiveness We are on The page As I've been saying And then We say Oh Allah Grant me this Grant me that Grant me what I want For indeed You're the owner Of this You're the owner Of that You're the owner Of absolutely everything That's the mercy Of Allah So when we look at Sulayman A.S. And we see He was given Everything Kingdom Such that The jinn were Under his instruction The wind Under his instruction He communicated with them He instructed them The birds The insects Everything Everything He was granted Muhammad A.S. Was given more Than Sulayman A.S. But from a different Angle Sulayman A.S. Was given something Unique Subhan Allah But even Muhammad A.S. He says And this makes me Cry every time I think about it He says إني لأعرفوا حجر بمكة كان يسلموا علي He says I know a stone in Makka That used to greet me Subhan Allah Subhan Allah Imagine The stones recognized That this is the The Nabi of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And some of us We couldn't even care I seek refuge in Allah He was the best of creation The stone recognized him Greeted him And he says I know a stone That used to Greet me in Makka A rock That greeted me in Makka Subhan Allah He also communicated With all these things Just like Sulayman A.S. did But he was favored Way beyond Sulayman A.S. In different ways In ways That Sulayman A.S. Did not see But this was the du'a When it comes to Dawood A.S. Who was the father Of Sulayman A.S. We will see his du'a Insha'Allah In the next episode May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Bless us all I'm really enjoying This beautiful beautiful season Of رمضان I look forward to seeing you tomorrow With more of these beautiful supplications أقول قولي هذا وصلى الله وسلم و بارك على نبينا محمد