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As-Sulillah Al-A’laman Al-Reheem. Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salat wa Salamu Alaa Sherafi Al-Anbiyaib Al-Mursaleen Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman Kaseeraan Kaseeraan. Muhammad Bahu, my brothers and sisters, one of the most beautiful duas which we all know and which we do is the one that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam taught to Abu Bakr Siddiq. Abu Bakr Siddiq reported, I requested Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam to teach me a dua which I could recite in my salaam. Thereupon he said, Allahumma Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kaseeraan, Wala Yaghfiru Zunuba Illa Anta, Faghfir Li Maghfiratan Min Indik, Wa Arhamni Innaka Anta Al-Ghfuru Al-Rahim. Allahumma Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kaseeraan, Wala Yaghfiru Zunuba Illa Anta, Faghfir Li Maghfiratan Min Indik, Wa Arhamni Innaka Anta Al-Ghfuru Al-Rahim. Allah, I have wronged myself a great deal. Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kaseeraan, I have wronged myself a great deal. There is none to forgive sins but you. So grant me pardon and have mercy on me. You are the most forgiving, the most compassionate. And this is in Bukhari-e-Muslim. Now think about that. The commentary, Imam Nawir Ahmadul Aliyyat says it is desirable to recite this Dua in Salah after the Shahud and before the Salim, before Salah. One can recite it at all other times also. Now the point here is this Dua is being taught to Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan whose Salah was at a level where people used to see him pray and they would come to Islam. This was the complaint within courts made by the Quresh about Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan. This was the reason why they put a condition. As you know the story from the Seerah, Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan was leaving and going away from Mecca because of the persecution of the Quresh. And one of the chiefs of the tribes, he came there and he saw him going. So he asked him where he was going. Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan told him, he said, no, no, this is not right. You can’t leave here and go. How can you have Mecca without Abu Bakr? So I will give you protection. He called his sons and his sons that he put on their armor, they came to Mecca. They met the half of the Kaaba and he announced and said Abu Bakr is under my protection. So Abu Jahl said to him, we accept your protection, but on condition. The condition is that Abu Bakr must pray inside his house. He must not pray where anyone can see him. Now see the peculiar condition. What does it matter if somebody is praying, whether anybody sees them or not? Obviously it mattered. So the man asked the question, this man said, well, what kind of a condition is this? Why does it matter to you whether he is praying outside or inside? They said no, because when he prays in a place where people can see him, people are, our people are becoming Muslim. His prayer is so impressive and so effective that people are accepting Islam. We don’t want this to happen. So let him pray inside. Abu Qasid Al-Hadilano agreed and he prayed inside his house for two or three days and after that he came outside again. He was praying in the courtyard of his house and the Meccans, the Khurais, Abu Jahl and others, they complained to this, to the man who gave him protection. The man said, look, I can’t give you protection because this is the condition under which I give you protection and if you don’t follow those rules, I can’t give you protection. Abu Qasid Al-Hadilano said, JazakAllah, thank you for your protection. I don’t need it anymore. Alhamdulillah, Allah is enough for me. Now point being, somebody whose salah is so good, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is teaching him, make this dua, Allahumma inni zalam tu nafsi zulman kaseera. When is this being made? At the end of the salah. At the end of salah of such beauty and such power, of such sincerity inshallah. What does it tell us? It tells us that when we do something good and we do something for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, it is part of the adab that we owe to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, that we don’t take it for granted that this will be accepted by Allah. Allah does not have to accept anything. Number one. Number two, no matter who it is, no matter who it is, nobody can ever worship Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala as he deserves to be worshipped. No one can worship him as he deserves to be worshipped. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala’s, what the level of worship, the level of sincerity, the level of perfection that is suitable to him is in keeping with his majesty and grace. There is no creature, whether it’s a human or any other kind of creature, that can say that I worship Allah equal to how he deserves it at that level. Say, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not even say it about himself. So therefore, to go to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala with our gift of ibadah as a supplicant goes to beg for charity. We don’t go with the upper hand, we go with the gift in both hands, presenting it and saying please take this and honor me. This is the way we approach Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. We don’t say, well, I have done my duty. No, no, no. That is arrogance. And that is the reason why at the end of doing this salah of such quality, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is teaching him, Aradil anhu, Allahumma inni dhalam tu nafsi dhulman kathiyan. Wala yaghfiru dhulman ba illanth. There is no one who accepts and who can forgive, accept you. Faqfirli therefore forgive me. Waqfiratan min indik. And forgive me from your forgiveness. Marhamni, have mercy on me. Inna qantal ghafur rahim. You are the most forgiving, the most compassionate, the most merciful. Ameen ya raam. I remind myself in you, let us understand this and follow the footsteps of the Sahaba, Rudha Izzan wa Iyar-e-Majmain, who were the people who learned Islam at the feet of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And so therefore their behavior is the best behavior, their example is the best example. We try to do our best, try to do all the good we can do, do it with complete humility, not with arrogance, not with a feeling of confidence that I have done my duty. Allah has to accept, no Allah doesn’t have to accept. We beg Allah to accept. We submit whatever we did to Him and we beg Him to accept. And we hope He will accept. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help us to please Him and to be pleased with us and to protect us from everything which displeases Him and to save us from ourselves. Wa salallahu ala nabir kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbih wa jamiin wa rahmatihi aho wa ala hikmahin.
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