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My brothers and sisters, we ask Allah SWT for His help in everything. And one of the greatest helps of Allah SWT comes from dua as we have been saying. Dua is the essence and the brain of worship. Dua is worship itself and therefore just making dua itself is rewardable before Allah SWT. Allah rewards us for making dua itself and then of course we ask Allah to give us what we ask for with khair and afiyah because only Allah SWT knows in what there is blessing and what there is no blessing. Shekhar bin Humayr reported, he said, I asked Rasulullah SAW, Ya Rasulullah SAW teach me dua and he said, And this is in Abu Dawud and Thirmidhi. The evils of my seeing, the evils of my tongue of speaking, the evils of my heart and the evils of passions. Now all this refers to the ways in which we disobey Allah SWT with these faculties and these strengths that He has given us. The evil of or evil or mischief of the ears lies in listening to lies and and calumnies and backbiting and slander and forbidden things like music and so on. Or closing the ears to the truth, ignoring the truth. Mischief of the eyes lies in finding faults with people, looking at what is forbidden to look at, pornography and so on. And ignoring the signs of Allah SWT scattered everywhere in the universe. We walk through life as if we are blind. The mischief of the heart lies in occupying one’s heart with the love of anyone else other than Allah. Especially those that Allah has prohibited us to have love for. Money, semen is you know what semen is. Now the reason why it says evil of the semen meaning the mischief that comes from using the sexual organs in a sinful act. So all forms of extra marital and pre marital sex in Islam is haram. It’s prohibited and that’s what we’re asking Allah SWT to protect us from. So one is advised to safeguard one’s eyes, ears, heart, sexual organs and all the organs. And to protect the body against their improper use in order to gain the praise of Allah. Because all of this we will be accountable for them. And Allah said to us about that day, Allah will seal the lips, the tongue. And the hands and feet will speak. Allah said on that day Allah will seal the mouth and the hands and feet will talk. And they will say what you did and they will say where you took them to. We ask Allah SWT to save us from ourselves more than anything else. Another beautiful and very powerful dua is a man called Ali. And Ali reported this. He said a slave who had made a contract with his master to pay for his freedom. He came to me and he said I am unable to fulfill my obligation. He told his master he will pay him so much to free him but he wasn’t able to make the money. So he said I will pay him so much to free him. So he said I am unable to fulfill my obligation to help me. And Ali said to him, shall I not teach you a dua which Rasulullah SWT taught me. It will surely prove so effective that if you have a debt as large as a huge mountain, Allah will surely pay it for you. He said say Allahumma kfini bi halalika an haraamik wa aghneeni bi fadlika. He said say Allahumma kfini bi halalika an haraamik wa aghneeni bi fadlika aman siwak. Allahumma kfini bi halalika an haraamik wa aghneeni bi fadlika aman siwak. O Allah grant me enough for what you make lawful so that I may dispense with what you make unlawful. Make me free from using anything which is unlawful. And enable me by your grace to dispense with all what you. Right? Allahumma kfini bi halalika an haraamik wa aghneeni bi fadlika aman siwak. O Allah grant me enough for what you make lawful of the halal so that I can dispense with the haraam. I don’t have to use the haraam. Remove this from me. And enable me by your grace bi fadlika aman siwak to rely only on you, to dispense with all but you. Now it’s very important this dua if you recite and they recommend you to recite this in the morning after Salatul Fajar and in the evening after Salatul Maghrib. But Alhamdulillah any dua can be recited at any time. But if you recite this dua inshallah Allah will keep us free from all forms of debt. And this is one of the biggest evils and one of the most stressful things in life is debt. And anyone who has debt and anyone who is also a, also the, you know, who has some self respect will be somebody who stays far away from debt. Because if you really intend to pay the debt then there’s no way it cannot stress you. And if you don’t intend to pay the debt then there’s a problem with your integrity. So it’s something which is, you know, may Allah protect us, which can earn the punishment of Allah SWT. So very important for us to keep this in mind and make sure that stay out of debt. Don’t borrow, stay within your means and differentiate between wants, desires and needs. If you stay within the needs you don’t have to worry. Needs are easily satisfied but wants, desires are never satisfied. They’re not even difficult. They’re never satisfied. And that’s why it is very important that we make sure that we don’t go into trying to satisfy desires. But keep the desires not, I won’t even say to the minimum, keep them out. There’s no need to desire. Desire the pleasure of Allah. Desire the qurb of Allah, the protection of Allah. Desire the closeness to Allah SWT. These are the desires for us to desire, not worldly stuff in this world. Because no matter what stuff you get in this world, no matter how much you pay for that, that stuff will remain here when we die. And what we paid and the reasons we paid and may Allah protect us if we did that in the wrong way, that goes with us in our graves. We definitely don’t want that. That’s a very, very expensive and bad bargain. We ask Allah SWT to help us to do that which pleases Him and save us from that which does not please Him. Wasallallahu r-Rahman wa-Alihi wa-Sallim.
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