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My brothers and sisters, the Dua’as of Rasulullah are the most comprehensive, the most beautiful, the most complete in the fewest possible words that you can imagine. And we ask Allah SWT to accept those Dua’as from us the way He accepted it from His Habib Sallallahu Alayhi wa’ala Alihi wasallam. Among those Dua’as is one which is narrated by Anas bin Malik Adyalanu. Even the debt of gratitude that we owe to the Sahaba, without whose keen observation and without whose assiduous and persistent and very sincere preservation of the words of the Rasulullah SAW, we would not have any of these beautiful Dua’as preserved for us. We ask Allah SWT to reward the Sahaba in keeping with His Majesty and Grace. The entire Ummah of Muhammad SAW owes a huge debt of gratitude to all the Sahaba of Rasulullah SAW. So, Anas bin Malik Adyalanu who spent the entire period that Rasulullah SAW stayed in Medina with him, the whole 10 years, and he was with him from the time he himself was say about 10 years old to the time he was 20. He literally grew up in the house of Rasulullah SAW. He is one of his closest companions, one of his favorite Sahaba, a man who learned the Deen at the feet of Rasulullah SAW by literally living with him. Imagine if you talk about the benefit of Suhbah, the benefit of the companionship of the Rasulullah SAW, the people like Anas bin Malik, people like Abdullah ibn Abbas, who literally grew up in the house of Rasulullah SAW. Zayd bin Haritha Adyalanu, Usama bin Zayd Adyalanu, who literally grew up in the house of Rasulullah SAW and they saw him day and night and they were in his company day and night and they listened to him. And imagine these are not kids who are being bratish and stuff. They were very deeply conscious of the fact of whose company they were in, whose house they were in. They were hugely respectful. They had the essence of adab. They were very thoughtful and they were so conscious of the wealth that Allah had given them by the company of Rasulullah SAW. There is this famous story of Abdullah ibn Abbas who said that he saw Rasulullah SAW waking up for Tahajjud. What does it mean he saw him? It means that he was already awake. This is a little kid, he is maybe 10-11 years old. He was already awake. Why was he awake? Because he knew where he was, he knew in whose presence he was. So he said he saw the Ravi Alayhi Salaam wake up, so he ran to get water for Uduh and he poured the water when he made Uduh and Rasulullah SAW when he finished his Uduh, he put his hand on his blessed hand on the chest of Abdullah ibn Abbas, Radyalanu and he said, O Allah, give him the Fiqh of the Quran, give him the understanding of the Quran. Right? This is the dua being done for a little kid, 10-11 year old kid. But why is it being done? Because it is not just a kid. This 10-11 year old kid emotionally is at the level of adulthood. This kid is somebody who knows who he is with. He is not thinking, oh, this is my cousin. No, this is the Rasulullah SAW. This is the whole benefit of adab, which is so, so critically important. Anas bin Malik Radyalanu was also another one like this. His mother who brought him and gave him to the Ravi Alayhi Salaam and said, Ya Rasulullah, I am giving my son to you. Let him be your servant. Let him be with you. This is the wisdom of his mother who put her own, in a very positive sense, agent in the house of Rasulullah SAW so that she could learn from whatever the son observes. So he says, Anas bin Malik Radyalanu says, the Nabi SAW used to make this dua, Allah I seek refuge in you from helplessness to do good, helplessness in every way, from laziness, from indolence, from cowardice, from senility and from miserliness. And I seek your protection against the torment of the grave, the adab-e-l-khabr and the trials of life and death. In another narration in Muslim, he adds this line, Now imagine this beautiful dua is asking refuge from helplessness, adj, adj is somebody who is helpless, from kassal, from laziness, from, and then he’s asking, Allah SWT is asking protection from cowardice, from being a coward and from senility, right? We are Alzheimer’s and just being senility and forgetfulness and so on. Imagine miserliness, imagine miserliness is a curse that we should seek Allah SWT has forgiven us from, give and give and give. And I seek your protection against the adab-e-l-khabr from the torment of the grave. Those people who deny the adab of the khabr and the punishment of the grave should think about this. Why is the Nabi SAW asking for protection from the torment of the grave if there was no torment, right? So did he know the deen better or do we know the deen better? And from the trials of life and death, we ask Allah and then he from indebtedness, from being in debt, is nothing more tyrannical, nothing more terrible than being in debt. Irrespective of, with debt, after an interest-based loan is the worst of it because then you also bought enmity of Allah SWT. Even debt, even if you get an interest-free loan, that also is a huge burden. Rasul SAW did not choose to make Salatul Janazah for somebody who was in debt until someone took responsibility for paying that debt. Later on, he used to take responsibility himself. He said, I will pay the debt. But in the early times when he also didn’t have money, he used to say, is there anybody who is willing to take this over? And if nobody says no, then he would tell the people, you pray Salatul Janazah for your brother and he would leave, right? So debt is a very, very serious thing. Today, people borrow all the time on credit cards, on this and that. Please understand, if you die with that thing and if you haven’t paid that debt off, then you are muallak, you are hanging between this world and the next in the sense of Allah will not give Jannah to that person unless that debt has been paid. In Islam, this whole issue of owing money is a very serious matter. So before you borrow money for this and that, think about that. And then the tyranny of man, this is what we are suffering from in this world today, tyranny of people and Muslim blood is free. So we ask Allah to save us and to have mercy on us because there’s no one else who has mercy and no one else who has more mercy than Allah. So let us remember these duas, let us memorize these duas. I am reading all of this from Ghazal Saleen. Of course, they are available in many places, including the excellent book, which is called the, what is it called, the Hishnul Muslim, the fortress of the Muslim that has a lot of these duas, mashallah. So let us memorize these duas and make these duas to Allah. We ask Allah to accept them. We ask Allah to add from from His own majesty and grace and generosity and give us what we ask for with khair and afya and to add to that from His generosity.
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