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in
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you fall remember just remember Allah
sees it all
alhamd
K all praise is due to Allah Lord of all
the worlds and may Allah's peace and
blessings beyond the last messenger of
Allah I welcome you again dear viewers
to our Series in the names of
Allah a series in which we are seeking
to understand the
Creator as he has revealed himself to us
through his Divine names and to worship
him through those Divine names in order
to
fulfill the basic reason for our
creation we were looking
at the first and most important of
Allah's names the greatest name of Allah
none other than Allah
itself how Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam taught us to worship Allah with
it to turn our daily mundane acts into
acts of
worship by saying bmah in the name of
Allah before doing it or by saying
Allah oh
Allah guide us show us forgive us
protect
us using this mighty name name of
Allah in this segment we're looking at
two supplications which the prophet Sall
wasallam gave us one dealing with our
past and the other one dealing with our
future the one dealing with the past is
called the
master form of repentance or the
repentance
Master Prophet Muhammad s Ali wasallam
had said the most Superior request for
forgiveness is to
say oh Allah you are my Lord there is no
God beside you here we have started off
with
Allah oh Allah you are my
Lord we are accept AC in
recognition of Allah's dominion over all
of our Affairs there is no God beside
you there is none to be worshiped in
this world or outside of this world
except for
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you you created me and I am your servant
follow following your Covenant and my
promise to you as much as I
can recognizing that Allah is the one
who created us and he is the one to whom
we have to
return and when he created us a covenant
was
made as he explained in Surah that when
he created Adam he took from Adam all of
his descendants and he made them bear
Witness
saying am I not your lord and we all
bore witness that Allah was our Lord
that is the Covenant the Covenant to
worship him in this
life and our promise to do it as much as
we
can I seek refuge in you from the evil
of what I have done because this is a
Dua a supplication where we're asking
Allah's
forgiveness
so we have to start off by focusing on
what it is that we're asking forgiveness
for it's for an evil which you have
done or all the evil which we
did
then the prophet wasallam told us to
say
before you I acknowledge your blessings
bestowed upon me and I confess my sins
to
you I recognize in my life that you have
blessed me that there is no excuse for
my
sin and I confess my
sin I admit it before
you
so forgive me for indeed no one forgives
sin besides you so we ask Allah
ultimately to forgive us for our
sins because no one else can forgive
us if we have done something wrong to
other people we can ask them to forgive
us but that forgiveness doesn't uh take
the place of seeking forgiveness from
Allah because though people in this life
may forgive us in doing whatever evil we
did to them we have not
only harm them but we have harmed
ourselves by disobeying Allah's command
so we have to turn to Allah and seek his
forgiveness
ultimately and
we recognize that it is only he who can
truly
forgive Prophet Muhammad wasallam had
said at the end of that anyone who says
this during the day firmly believing in
it and dies before the
evening or he says it in the evening or
she says it in the evening firmly
believing it and dies before the
following morning he or she will be
among the people of
paradise he or she will be among the
people of paradise that's a great reward
a huge reward for this repentance M
master and it goes back to Adam and Eve
who disobeyed
Allah by eating of the tree in Paradise
they were able to remove the sin from
themselves and re-enter into Allah's
favor Allah's Grace by turning back to
him in
Repentance and that's what this is about
repenting for what we have done in the
past this is what distinguishes
between human beings Adam the
first and the evil among the
Jin when Satan refused to bow to Adam at
Allah's
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command and he was questioned about it
instead of recognizing his error and his
sin he became
arrogant and because of that he became
cursed cursed by Allah and and he
entered into
kufur by challenging Allah and
questioning his
decision Adam on the other hand when he
committed the sin along with
Eve they took the words of repentance
which Allah taught
them used them to purify themselves of
sin and went back into their into
Allah's
Grace and that is why from the Muslim
perspective there is
no inherited
sin Adam and Eve sin was washed away
with their
repentance the other
Dua which I mentioned we would be
looking at in this half of the
program is the well-known Dua known as
Dua or the the prayer for seeking
good jab abdah he related that the
prophet s wasallam used to teach them
this prayer this prayer for seeking
good in all of their Affairs the way he
used to teach a chapter from the
Quran he used to teach them to make this
Dua
du the way he used to teach them to
memorize a chapter from the Quran to use
it in their prayers to understand it to
benefit from it so he gave them this
Dua in saying if any of you decides on a
matter he should pray two units of
voluntary prayer and then he should say
this
Dua first point here is that he said if
any of you decides on a matter meaning
you don't go to
make
when you haven't taken a
decision people mistakenly think that
you make
du when you haven't made a decision and
Allah will show you which decision to
make but this is not how duar
works first you take a
decision meaning you seek whatever
information you can get about this
particular thing that you want to do
after you've gathered all the
information you've taken the advice of
those around you your parents or
whatever and you've got all the
information together and then you take a
decision as to what it is you're going
to
do at this point as the prophet Sall
wasallam said if any of you decides on a
matter
then you make two voluntary units of
Prayer
not your obligatory prayers you do from
Sunnah you know the uh the voluntary
prayers having done that then you say
the
Dua I seek your ref your
guidance to what is good for
me because because of your infinite
knowledge I seek your help because of
your infinite power and ask you from
your infinite
grace for surely you are able and I am
not you know and I do not and you alone
know the Unseen
so we start
off having made a
decision and we're turning the affair
over to Allah because he has the
knowledge and the power and he has the
grace to help us in this decision that
we have
made we'll continue to look at the
Dua after a brief break that will'll be
taking
now
are Road seems long remember just
remember seek strength from the
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strong the Quran is Allah's Universal
Revelation to all of human human it all
of mankind within their hearts desires
to worship and know their lord it's part
of our fitra or the innate moral nature
on which every human being was created
the human being desperately desires to
know for what purpose will I put here on
the
earth when you are weak and the road
seems long remember
just remember seek strength from the
alhamdulillah all praise is due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of
Allah we welcome you back dear viewers
to our Series in the names of Allah
prior to the break we had begun to look
at the prayer for seeking
good
as we began this series this last
segment we said we were looking at the
past and the
future the past was the sins that we
have done how to correct them we
had the master form of
repentance beginning again
with Allah you are our Lord and there's
no God beside
you that was dealing with the
past
because we can't just move on if we
haven't come to grips with the past
corrected it then we're liable to carry
it along with us into the
future so
repentance is the
beginning this is why Prophet Sall
wasallam had said
one who repents from sin is like one
without
sin so this is the starting
point
also of course in the case of repentance
there must be a sense of sadness a sense
of remorse about what we have done
because if we haven't felt anything in
our heart the hearts are hard we sought
Refuge from the hard heart heart which
had no fear if there is no sense of
sadness and remorse for what we' have
done then that
Dua as powerful as it is will be of no
benefit so we have to be sincere in this
if we seek refuge in Allah from our sin
he will give us that Refuge but we must
be sincere
part of sincerity involves giving up
what we're doing because it doesn't make
sense you know like some people they
smoke
cigarettes and they know it is Haram
yeah some people do say it's makru but
reality smoking is Haram so they know
it's Haram they feel bad I shouldn't be
smoking so they ask Allah forgive me for
smoking and there still
smoking how is that going to work they
have to give it
up and then make the intention in the
future that they're not going to return
to it so there are some basic conditions
around repentance that also have to be
fulfilled for that
Dua to have the full impact the impact
which prophet wasallam said If a person
makes this Dua sincerely and in the
morning and dies in the evening says it
in the evening and dies the next
morning their place will be in Paradise
that is the promise of the Prophet
sallallah alaihi
wasallam that's the past for the future
our
Affairs seeking Allah's guidance to make
sure that we're making the right
decisions that our Affairs go in the
right direction
Prophet Muhammad may God's peace and
blessings be upon him also gave us a Dua
beginning in the same way with
Allah oh Allah I
seek what you feel to be
good what is good for me according to
your
knowledge and that's what we began to
look at prior to the break
the first
statement oh Allah I seek your guidance
to what is good for me because of your
infinite
knowledge I seek your help because of
your infinite power and I ask from
you because of your infinite
grace one point to note here that this
Dua should not be about something which
is
obligatory we don't
make about doing something which Allah
has
commanded nor do we
make about doing something which Allah
has
forbidden that should be common sense
nor should we make isar for something
which the prophet wasallam
recommended or for something which he
disliked the maku we shouldn't be making
for these things that's
clear is for the MU
things things which are in the middle
this decision we're making is a
perfectly permissible decision not one
which has already been we've been told
that this is a good thing to do we
should do it or it's obligatory for us
to do it so in this
affair that we are making thisara
about we ask Allah to guide us
because he ultimately is the guide he
knows the
consequence of the acts he knows when we
make that decision what is it going to
lead to we don't so we ask Allah to
guide us because of his infinite
knowledge and to help us in it because
it is through his
power nothing is going to take place
without the permission of
Allah and that it be from his Mercy if
it is really good for us then whatever
good comes to us is from the mercy of
Allah for you are able and I am
not you know and I do
not and you alone know the Unseen
because the future for us is from The
Unseen so we are turning our AFF fear
over to Allah in
this I think this is clear we have made
a decision and then we're asking Allah
relative to this decision you know best
so show it to us so we go on to say as
the prophet wasam taught
us
that is oh Allah if you
know that this affair and this is where
you will mention the name of it is
favorable for my religion and my
livelihood then decree it for me make it
easy for me and bless me in
it decree it for me
meaning put it in my
destiny make it easy for me to achieve
it and then bless me in
it these are the signs some people think
that if we
make there should come some sign in a
dream so they say when you're going to
make
you do it before going to bed at
night oh this is nonsense are you're
supposed to wait and see what happens in
a dream and then there are even books
which tell you if you see this in a
dream or you see that in a dream this
means go ahead or it means don't go
ahead and if you seen green means okay
if you see red it's not okay this is all
nonsense this is all nonsense we can see
clearly from the statement here we're
saying to Allah that if this is is good
for me
then make it easy for
me Destin it for me and make it easy for
me and bless me in it so after having
made a decision we go ahead if we find
that all the things of Our Lives just
fall into place it moves along easy you
can see Allah's blessing in it then we
know we've made the right decision and
we go ahead with it that's enough we
don't need a
dream to tell us so in this affair here
it's clear as the prophet wasallam said
in the very
beginning if any one of you has made a
decision you made a decision then you
make two units of prayer and make this
prayer this supplication what does this
tell us it means also that nobody can do
it for us us
unfortunately some people think your
parents can make AAR for you or you go
to the she and you say she make AAR for
me this is all nonsense nobody can do
this toar but
ourselves as the prophet s wasallam said
if
you decide on a
matter you make two units of Prayer and
you make this supplication so it's all
on us each individual is responsible for
making this prayer seeking Allah's
guidance turning his or her Affairs over
to Allah
so if this is not the
case the prophet wasallam told us to
say
but if you know that this affair is
harmful for my
religion my livelihood and the aftermath
of my
Affairs then turn it away from me and
turn me away from it
and decree for me what is better when
wherever it may be and make me content
with it this is the other sign we have
one sign if it's good for me Destin it
for me make it available to me because
even though we might decide on
something it may not become accessible
to us so we decide on something the sign
that this the right thing it becomes
accessible not only is it accessible but
it becomes
easy and Allah's blessing is evident in
it but if it's not good then it becomes
difficult it's taken away from us we
can't find it we have to be running
after if you find yourself after making
this Dua you're running trying to chase
this thing down you're trying to go
against what Allah has now destined for
you it's not good that's why is taking
it away from you and then we also ask
not only that he take it away from us
but that he takes it out of our hearts
so it takes us away from it because
though he may take it away from us if he
doesn't take it out of our hearts then
we're still going to run after it so
this is what we ask that he take it out
of our hearts then show us where the
real good is and make us pleased with it
because when he shows us where the real
good is maybe it's not really what we
were looking
for so we're not pleased but he we asked
to put in our hearts pleasure with it so
this is the Dua for the future to guide
us on our way beginning as we
said oh Allah I seek what is good for me
based on your knowledge and this is the
last of the
supplications that we're looking at in
this segment regarding Allah ah the
greatest name of our
creator how we have used it throughout
our daily lives based on the advice and
the guidance of the Prophet
sallallah wasam not according to our own
whims and fancies or Customs Etc but
according to the way the prophet taught
us sallallah alaihi wasallam with that
dear viewers I'd like to thank you for
being with us in this segment of our
program in the names of Allah and we'll
be continuing on to the next two names
of Allah Alman and Alim in our coming
segment with that dear viewers I bid you
fairw
are seems long remember just remember
seek strength from the strong