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Duas to remember

Author
Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center
Published
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Episode Link
https://mhmic.org/fajrreminders/duas-to-remember/

Auto-generated transcript: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,

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