Prayers of the Pious

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You will have the opportunity to read and reflect on a collection of prayers and supplications from the Quran, the Sunnah, and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

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Yā-man lā-tarāhu al-ʿuyūnu wa-lā tukhāliṭuhu al-ẓunūnu wa-lā yaṣifuhu al-wāṣifūna wa-lā tughayyiruhu al-ḥawādithu, wa-lā yakhshā al-dawā’ira, yaʿlamu mathāqīla al-jibāli, wa-makāyīla al-biḥāri wa-ʿadada qaṭri al-amṭāri, wa-ʿadada waraqi al-ashjāri, wa-ʿadada mā-aẓlama ʿalayhi al-laylu wa-ashraqa ʿalayhi al-nahāru, wa-lā tuwārī minhu samā’un samā’an, wa-lā arḍun that be a covenant that You deliver to me on the Day of Judgment—for You never break Your promises. If you have suffered from great pain, try to convert that pain into pleasure in the Hereafter. Do not pretend like the pain doesn’t exist in this life, it existed in the lives of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and great men like ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) , but instead take that pain and convert it into a request for pleasure in the Hereafter. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) protect our children, comfort the parents who have lost their children, and have mercy on those children. May He gather those parents with their children in Jannat al-Firdaws and allow all the tragedies that we face in this life only increase our love for Him and the desire for the Hereafter. Āmīn .Allāhumma arinī al-haqqa haqqan wa-waffiqnī littibāʿihī, wa-arinī al-bāṭila bāṭilan wa-waffiqnī lijtinābihi O Allah, show me the truth as truth, and guide me to follow it; and show me the false as false, and guide me to avoid it. Aclear subject of most of the supplications of the pious predecessors is sincerity, which shows where their priorities lay, but each one gives us something different. One person asked Allah to excuse their private disgrace because of the good that they do in public; one asked Allah to make them a better person than other people might think of them, and forgive them for what they don’t know, and there are different ways that the Salaf, the pious predecessors, used to verbalize sincerity in their du ʿ ā’ s. Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah (may Allah be pleased with him) was a renowned student of Sufyan al-Thawri (may Allah be pleased with him) , and he teaches us a du ʿ ā’ that matches in detail and emotion some of the greatest supplications for sincerity. In his du ʿ ā’ , Sufyan is not only asking Allah (glorified and exalted is He) to not make him a hypocrite, or to allow his private disgrace to ruin his public good, but he is asking Him for deeds that are so good that even the veil won’t do it justice. That is why al-Fuʿayl ibn ʿIyad (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the pious predecessors used to hide their good deeds with the same vigilance that they hid their sins. When you reach that point, your good deeds become so precious between you and Allah (glorified and exalted is He) that you feel that if someone is gazing into that private devotion they’re almost intruding on a beautiful relationship. That’s when you know that you are attaining a level of ihsan, a level of excellence where you are starting to enjoy a conversation between you and Allah (glorified and exalted is He) that is so private you wouldn’t even want your spouse to know. So you save the best for that which no one else sees but Allah (glorified and exalted is He) .

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doing some secret good deeds that no one was aware of. Imagine how many good deeds apobec could have No one will have the power to intercede [with Allah], except for him who has taken a covenant with the All-Beneficent, (Maryam 19:87) One of the questions about the Qur’an is how do you interact with those verses? The Prophet (peace be upon him) said of ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd, ‘whoever wants to hear the Qur’an fresh, as if it was just recited, then let him listen to the qira’at of ʿAbdullah ibn Masʿūd’. And this is how he interacts with this particular verse and this idea of taking a covenant with Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . One of the things that we learn about Allah (glorified and exalted is He) is that He is too shy to turn away the hands of His sincere servants. So when you call upon Allah and you say, ‘O Allah! You never break your promises. You promised us mercy, so please show us mercy; You promised that if we do this, You will do that.’ It’s a very beautiful and powerful way to engage your Rabb, to engage your Lord, to engage your Sustainer. A Lord that loves to forgive, a Lord that loves to pardon, a Lord that loves to show mercy. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) deliver us on the Day of Judgement, as He promised us that if we believe in Him and we turn to Him and obey Him to the best of our ability that He will deliver us with His mercy. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) deliver us with His mercy and allow us to enter into the Gardens of felicity. Transliteration Guide A brief guide to some of the letters and symbols used in the Arabic transliteration in this book.An individual does not have to be a poet to praise Allah, you'd be surprised how poetic you can be when you're honest." Prayers of the Pious provides spiritual gems that serve as valuable wisdom and practical advice for the soul. Allāhumma urzuqnī shahādatan fī sabīlika wajʿal mawtī fī balādi rasūlika ṣalla Allahu ʿalayhi wa-sallam. Allahuma lā-tajʿal qatlī ʿalā yadi ʿabdin sajada laka sajdatan yuḥājjunī bihā yawma al-qiyāmah O Allah, I ask You, to be accepted as a martyr in the city of your Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). O Allah, do not let my killing be at the hand of someone who ever prostrated to You, lest he use that against me on the Day of Judgement. In the first du ʿ ā’ we discussed the death of Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and how he longed for the last of his deeds and the last of his days to be the best, and the best moment to be when he meets Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . Now, consider the situation of ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) ; imagine knowing that you are going to be killed and that your ending is going to be murder. ʿUmar would know this is the case because the Prophet (peace be upon him) was with him and Abū Bakr and ʿUthman (may Allah be pleased with them) on Mount Uhud and it shook. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, ‘Be firm O Uhud! You have upon you a Prophet (himself), a ṣiddīq (Abū Bakr) and two martyrs (meaning ʿUmar and ʿUthman)’. So ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) was well aware that he will be martyred, but that wasn’t enough for him. He knew that he was guaranteed Jannah because the Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned ʿUmar on numerous occasions as being one who is guaranteed Paradise. He feared hypocrisy, because he would actually ask Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) for the names of hypocrites to know if he was on the list that the Prophet (peace be upon him) gave to him, and yet he still made so many du ʿ ā’ s about the moment that he would be killed, who would kill him, where he would be killed and how he would be killed. Allāhumma ijʿal khātimata ʿamalī ṣalāta al-fajri O Allah! Make my last deed in this life the performance of Fajr prayer. The author, Omar Suleiman, is a Muslim scholar and community leader who has dedicated his life to teaching and spreading the teachings of Islam. He is the founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute, a non-profit organization that provides educational resources and programs to Muslims worldwide.

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Allāhumma in kunta ballaghta aḥadan min ʿibādika al-ṣālihīna darajatan bi-balā’in fa-ballighnīhā bil-ʿāfiyah O Allah, if You have granted any righteous servant of Yours a station because of a trial they faced, then grant it to me while sparing me that trial. There is a tendency in the prayers of the pious of asking Allah (glorified and exalted is He) for a good ending, because the Prophet (peace be upon him) himself taught us to ask Allah for a good ending. In life, you have high points and low points, and you don’t want Allah to send the Angel of Death to you when you are at a low point. There are many ways of asking Allah for a good ending, and anyone who has been around dying righteous people may have noticed that in the last days of their lives it was almost as if they had been informed, that they knew they were going to die. That’s something you feel, Subhan Allah, it’s not something that could be explained. It’s not that there is some sort of explicit communication to people, but there is a feeling and that’s something that was narrated on behalf of many of the Salaf, the pious predecessors. This particular du ʿ ā’ , of a man who knew that his time had come and who felt that closeness—similar to Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) , is a very simple du ʿ ā’ . One night, ʿAbdullah ibn Abi Sarh (may Allah be pleased with him) was praying his night prayer and he was so joyful in that qiyam that he asked Allah (glorified and exalted is He) directly that this Fajr be his last deed. He didn’t say this salat-al-Fajr, he said salat al-Fajr, meaning the morning prayer, be the last of his deeds. Since he had a routine of praying at night, he felt that closeness to Allah, and for the ones who stand and pray at night Fajr is not the beginning of the day as much as it is the conclusion of the night. So he finished his qiyam, made his wudu’ and prayed his Fajr and died at the conclusion of salat al-Fajr. Subhan Allah. Allāhumma lā-tajʿalnī ʿibratan li-ghayrī, wa-lā tajʿal aḥadan asʿada bimā ʿallamtanī minnī O Allah, do not make a lesson out of me for others, and do not let there be anyone who benefits more than me from what You have taught me. actually living up to that and that was not all a false portrayal. And then Josie Rahim, Allah has aIn recent months and years he has been a prominent critic of the separation of migrant children from their families, and a supporter of rights for refugees persecuted minorities. Other people may think of us things that are not true and one of the most feared thoughts for those that are often glorified, or someone who is given undue praise, is that because they don’t meet that praise when they meet Allah (glorified and exalted is He) they are held accountable for those things other people say of them of good. The Prophet (peace be upon him) told us of this frightening scenario, that when someone is buried and people start to eulogize about them and say good things, the angels poke at that person and ask them if they were really as they say they were? Was that person really as the people describe them? This is not something that just applies to the great scholar, or to the perceived great scholar or the preacher. It applies to every person who was deemed righteous in the public eye. Just as we hate slander, we hate destructive praise, because it can put us in a state of hypocrisy (may Allah protect us). Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was very aware of that and he used to make it a point to hide his good deeds. Often, other Companions would find Abū Bakr secretly doing good deeds; imagine how many deeds Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) did that we were never aware of, that the books never encompassed, and what he teaches us in this du ʿ ā’ is essential to every person in the public eye. If you look at the first part of this du ʿ ā’ , the word that is used is ẓann because people might think something of Abū Bakr that is untrue and he does not think he is as good as others think he is. Then Abū Bakr asks, ‘forgive me for what they don’t know about me’, meaning that he may have shortcomings and sins of which people are unaware. He even uses different language: ‘Forgive me for that which they don’t know about me that I know about myself,’ and he continues, ‘and do not hold me accountable for the things they say about me.’ If anything, we want Allah to bring about good testimony from people on the Day of Judgement, but we want to make sure it is character testimony that means something. The shahādah, the witnessing of the people on this earth, should mean something of good, and we want to make sure that we’re actually living up to that and it was not all a false portrayal. Ibn al-Jawzi (may Allah be pleased with him) , whose prayer we have already covered, said that if people are impressed with you, don’t think that they’re impressed by you. They’re impressed by the beauty of Allah’s cover (hijāb) placed over your sins; it’s not really you, it’s the veil that Allah has provided. You need to be self-aware of that so that you can continue to work on those things and not allow for destructive praise to sedate you or paralyze you from actually living up to the best of yourself. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) make us better than people think of us, may He forgive us for things people don’t know of us, and may He not hold us accountable for the things that they say about us. Āmīn .