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There is another Dua of Rasulullah which is mentioned in Baqariya Muslim. It is a Muslim’s declaration to turn to Allah SWT in every matter and to take care about His pleasure and His orders regarding every action. It is also a declaration to be friends for the sake of Allah and to show enmity towards people for Him alone. May Allah SWT give every Muslim the ability to do this Dua and to act according to the declaration that He makes through it. Ibn Abbas narrates that Rasulullah used to make this Dua. O Allah, to You I submit. In You I have faith, I affirm my faith. In You I repose my trust. To You I turn in repentance and with Your help I contend and deal with my adversaries and enemies. And from You I seek judgment. O Allah, grant me forgiveness for the faults which I made, for the sins which I made in the past and those I may commit in the future, those which I committed secretly or openly. You alone send whomever You wish to Jannah and You alone send whomever You wish to the hellfire. There is nobody worthy of worship except You. Another narration is the additional line, There is no strength to resist evil and no power to do good except through Allah. Now see this very comprehensive Dua. This is the nature of the Dua of Rasulullah. They are so beautiful and so comprehensive. Where Allah SWT is saying, I accept Ya Rabb, I submit to You. It starts with Islam, I submit to You and then Iman. And then the result of submitting to Allah SWT and having Iman is Tawakkut, is total reliance on Allah SWT for everything. And to You I completely trust and Tawakkut, total reliance on You. And I turn to You in repentance. I ask You for Your Seek of forgiveness. And Your help in contending with my adversaries, Your help in fighting my enemies. And Your judgment I seek. O Allah, grant me forgiveness. Now think about this, Nabi SAW is asking for forgiveness. He was sinless, Allah had already forgiven him. All of this is to teach us the importance of submission. Even though he was sinless, even though Allah SWT declared in the Quran that I have forgiven you, all that in the past and in the future, He would still make this Dua with complete and total sincerity because we never take any of the Niyamat, any of the blessings of Allah SWT for granted. When Allah says I have forgiven you, still we beg forgiveness because it is not about Allah, it is about us. Because we are the ones who have sinned, we are the ones who need the forgiveness of Allah SWT. Therefore, we ask Allah for this most sincerely and with as much humility and humbleness that we can possibly bring to bear. Then another beautiful hadith in Abu Dawud and Dharmadi, Aisha R.A. She said the Nabi SAW is to say Allahumma inni awzbika min fitnatin naar wa adhabin naar wa min sharil ghina wal faq. O Allah, I seek refuge in You, protection in You from the trials and torment to the fire and from the evils of wealth and poverty. See the important thing to understand here, in today’s world we take wealth as a blessing straight away. As long as I have money, everything is. But Allah SWT did not say that. Allah said we will test you with wealth and with poverty. Both are tests and they are different kinds of tests. So at Suharnada between wealth and poverty, probably wealth is a bigger test because wealth opens doors. Wealth opens the doors of and for evil. So it is where poverty, because you don’t have the money, you can’t afford to commit some sins at least. But people who have money, the doors are open. Also wealth brings with it pride and brings with it takabur and arrogance, all of which are terrible, terrible evils. So the evils of wealth, they signify, and this is in the commentary in Rav Sadaheen, the evils of wealth signify that one becomes so captivated by wealth that in his struggle to acquire it, he fails to discriminate between lawful and unlawful. How true is this? Any means? Halal means haram means? No, in Islam the means and the end are both very, very important. Or one may become proud and arrogant on account of their riches. We see it all the time. May Allah have mercy on us. Let us not be among those. The evils of poverty are that one loses hope of Allah’s mercy and compassion, or shows resentment against his faith and the will of Allah, or deviates from the principles and requirements of integrity and honesty, meaning people start stealing and so on, which is not a, which is a terrible thing, or beg, beg others instead of submitting to Allah, you bow before other people because of money. So it’s very important to ask, make all these, make all these duas that that Allah swt should keep us always in safety and keep us away from all forms of evil and give us blessings with afya. That’s why this the whole dua of Allah, may Allah bless us with his blessings. We ask Allah for afya, for safety and the safety includes being protected from disobeying Allah swt. In all, in every, in everything. We want afya in our children, we want afya in our family, we want afya in wealth, we want afya in everything. And we ask Allah protection from all forms of tests and all forms of difficulties, from poverty and from the evil of wealth. We ask Allah to give us wealth with khair and barakah and with the taufiq to spend it in his path, inshallah.
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