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Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm, wa raḥmatullāhi rabbil ‘alameen, wa salātu wa salāmu ‘ala ashrafil anbiyā’ wal mursaleen, Muḥammadun Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa ‘ala ālihi wa sahhayhi, tasliman kathīran kathīran. My brothers and sisters, a young man came to Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and he said to him, “Ya Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, please give me something that only you can give me and nobody else can give me.”
Please give me something that only you can give me and no one else can give me. So Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said to him, “Say, take your hand.” So he took his right hand. Then he said, “Qul subḥānAllāh wal-ḥamdulillāh, wālā ilāha illAllāh, wallāhu akbar, wālā ḥawla wālā quwwata illa billāhil-ladhī lā yudharru ma’a dhikri shay’un.” We know all of these things, right? We don’t even need to memorize them to think about this. Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “Say, Qul,”
“SubḥānAllāh wal-ḥamdulillāh, wālā ilāha illAllāh, wallāhu akbar, wālā ḥawla wālā quwwata illa billāhil-ladhī lā yudharru ma’a dhikri shay’un.”
The boy repeated after Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. He looked at his face and he left the masjid.
Then he went outside and he thought for some time. Then he came back.
And he said, “Ya Rasūlullāh, all that you gave me is for Allah.”
Right? “Qul hadhā billāh ta’ālā faqat.” “Qām dhalika,” what about for me? So Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam smiled.
Because when you make dhikr, even though the dhikr is the praise of Allah, it is for you. Because you are getting the reward of the dhikr. So Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam gave him something for himself. But he is a young boy, he doesn’t understand. So anyway, Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam smiled. And he said, “Qul biyadik.” He said, take your hand. So he took his other hand.
And he said, “Qul,” say.
“Allāhumma ghaffir li. Warḥamnī. Wafīnī. Wahdini. Warzuqnī.”
Allāhumma ghaffir li. O Allah, forgive me. Warḥamnī. And have mercy on me. Wafīnī. And bless me and bless everything which I have.
Wahdini. And guide me. Warzuqnī. And provide for me.
So the boy said, what about me? Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam gave him this. Very small.
Each one is a dua. And these are all very small duas. It takes you one minute. Maybe. Maybe to say all of them. If you recall, these are the duas we say between the two sujoods. When you make a sajdah, you sit back. You say this. Allāhumma ghaffir li. Warḥamnī. Wafīnī. Wahdini. Warzuqnī. Then you go into the next sajdah. So it is the same thing. So Nabīy sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam taught him this dua. Allāhumma ghaffir li. Warḥamnī.
Wahdini. There is no specific order. You can say it any order. Allāhumma ghaffir li. Warḥamnī. Wahdini. Warzuqnī. Wafīnī. Wahdini. Warzuqnī. So make this dua. The boy took this. And he looked at the blessed face of Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And he left.
And when he went outside the masjid, Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said to the companions around him: “That this boy’s hands are filled with khair.”
Khair. Barakah. His hands are filled with khair.
This dua for Afiyah. Wafīnī. I ask you for afiyah, right? He could do more. All aspects of life, in all that we do. Allāhumma inni as’aluka al-afiyyah. A small dua, but it encompasses everything. Because this afiyah, the blessing from Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā, is the critical factor which makes something good for you. Right? Because nothing in this world is good by itself. It’s good only if Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā puts khair in this. It puts afiyah in this. Take anything you like. Take, for example, wealth. Wealth by itself is not good because wealth is also the door. Wealth enables the door of disobedience to be opened. If you don’t have money, the option, the options of disobeying Allah are less. Fewer. But when you have a lot of money, then the options of disobeying Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā are limitless. You can do whatever you like.
You can do anything you like.
But when Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā puts afiyah in that wealth, then you spend that wealth in order to gain Jannah. You spend the wealth in ways which help you to get Jannah. Similarly, take afiyah, ulūl al-‘ibād, take children.
Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā called children a test.
“Innama al-amwāluikum wa awlādukum fitnah.” Allah said, “Verily, your wealth and your children are a fitnah for you. They are a test for you.”
So, if you pass the test, alhamdulillah, because the child who makes dua for you is your sadaqah jāriyah.
It’s something which is a huge blessing. But that is not something which happens automatically. That happens if you raise the child properly, give it the correct tarbiyyah. And all of this is from afiyah. If the children, if you had the children without afiyah, then we have enough examples of that in this world. May Allah protect us from that. But if you raise the children correctly, then alhamdulillah, those children are a source of great khair and great barakah for us. May Allah grant us this, insha’Allāh. Similarly, marriages. Your husband, or your wife,
in itself,
Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā said, “‘Adawwun lakum innamā azwājukum wa awlādukum ‘adawwun lakum.” Allah said, “Verily your spouses and your children are your enemies.”
Surah At-Takāthur, Allah said, “Your spouses and your children are your enemies.” Enemies does not mean you go and fight with them. Enemies meaning, all of this means that potentially, how does your husband or wife become your enemy? By doing something which distracts you from obedience to Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā, which takes you towards the disobedience of Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā. So also with the children. Now, that will not happen if that spouse is full of khair and barakah, if the children are raised correctly, then they become, instead of becoming your ‘adawwun, your enemies, they become, your partners in gaining the ridā of Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā. So this is the meaning of afiyah. So when we are saying, Allāhumma inni as’aluka al-afiyyah, we are saying, “O Allah, give me afiyah in my, in everything, in all my,”
similarly education, right? You take education, you take health, you take sickness, anything, anything in this world, anything of this world, if you get it without afiyah,
then it only causes evil for you. But if you get the same thing with afiyah, then it’s a means of great khair and barakah. So, quick recap, just the duas, to ask Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā: Allāhumma ghaffir li, warḥamnī, wafīnī, wahdini, warzuqnī. So, insha’Allāh, we ask Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā to grant us all these things and to help us to earn halal, to spend halal, and to live in a life, live a style of life which Allah Ṣubḥānaḥu wa Ta’ālā is pleased with. Wa sallallāhu ‘ala nabiyyil karīm wa ‘ala ālihi wa sahbihi ajmain bi raḥmatika ya ar-raḥmānar-raḥīm, wal-ḥamdulillāhi rabbil ‘alameen.