Last thing to do before going to bed (i.e temporarily death or possibly permenant)
Sarah was extremely exhausted after a busy day of taking care of her kids, cooking, cleaning, shopping and all the little errands of day to day life. After everyone went to bed. She signed, she hadn’t prayed Isha. She made wadhu, prayed her salat looking forward to finally having some rest, until tommorow when she will do it all ALL over again. Was it the 3rd rakah or 4th? She thought. Her prayer ended. She checked her email and messages, chatted with a few friends. 1am! She panicked, used the washroom, brushed her teeth and went to bed, almost instantly fell asleep.
What she didn’t know was that while she lay asleep. Allah had taken out her soul. Just like he has been taking out every single night. Except today, the decree overcome her. Her soul was not to be returned.
Wished this wasn’t her last day, her last evening, her last prayer with no khushoo, her last activity of her life.
Prophet(peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whenever you go to bed perform ablution like that for the prayer, lie on your right side and say, “Allahumma aslamtu wajhi ilaika, wa fauwadtu `Amri ilaika, wa alja’tu Zahri ilaika raghbatan wa rahbatan ilaika. La Malja’a wa la manja minka illa ilaika. Allahumma amantu bikitabika-l-ladhi anzalta wa bina-biyika-l ladhi arsalta” (O Allah! I surrender to You and entrust all my affairs to You and depend upon You for Your Blessings both with hope and fear of You. There is no fleeing from You, and there is no place of protection and safety except with You O Allah! I believe in Your Book (the Qur’an) which You have revealed and in Your Prophet (Muhammad) whom You have sent). Then if you die on that very night, you will die with faith (i.e. or the religion of Islam). Let the aforesaid words be your last utterance (before sleep).”[Bukhari 247]
Ponder upon it. Was what you did today worth being the last day of your life? Were your last moments before you fell asleep signifying your Islam? For most, the answer is no.
We must strive to better our actions daily. And take the moments before sleep very seriously. As one similarly regular day of our lives, we might not wake up. ANd the last things we did will be the last action of our live, our test in this duniya.
May Allah(swt) enable us to reach high status in hereafter and forgive us (Ameen)
So how about we read the dua and have good hopes from Allah. Here is the dua in arabic:
اللَّهُمَّ أَسْلَمْتُ وَجْهِي إِلَيْكَ، وَفَوَّضْتُ أَمْرِي إِلَيْكَ، وَأَلْجَأْتُ ظَهْرِي إِلَيْكَ، رَغْبَةً وَرَهْبَةً إِلَيْكَ، لاَ مَلْجَأَ وَلاَ مَنْجَا مِنْكَ إِلاَّ إِلَيْكَ، اللَّهُمَّ آمَنْتُ بِكِتَابِكَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلْتَ، وَبِنَبِيِّكَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلْتَ
Ramadan Duas
Du’as for Fasting
When beginning the fast– Suhur
وَبِصَوْمِ غَدٍ نَّوَيْتَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ Wa bisawmi ghadinn nawaiytu min shahri ramadan
I intend to keep the fast for tomorrow in the month of Ramadan
[abu Dawud]
When breaking the fast– Iftar
اللَّهُمَّ اِنِّى لَكَ صُمْتُ وَبِكَ امنْتُ [وَعَلَيْكَ تَوَكَّلْتُ] وَعَلَى رِزْقِكَ اَفْطَرْتُ
Allahumma inni laka sumtu wa bika aamantu [wa ‘alayka tawakkaltu] wa ‘ala rizq-ika aftarthu
O Allah! I fasted for You and I believe in You [and I put my trust in You] and I break my fast with Your sustenance
[“wa ‘alayka tawakkaltu” is quoted in some books of knowledge – but not all, hence it is in brackets]
[abu Dawud]
ذَهَبَ الظَّمَأُ وَ ابْتَلَّتِ الْعُرُوقُ، وَ ثَبَتَ الأجْرُ إنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ
dhahabadh-dhama’u wab-tallatil ‘urūūqi, wa thabatal arju inshaAllah
The thrist is gone, the veins are moistened and the reward is confirmed, if Allah [Ta’ala] Wills
[abu Dawud 2:306]
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسأَلُكَ بِرَحْمَتِكَ الَّتِي وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَنْ تَغْفِرَ لِي
Allaahumma inni as’aluka birahmatika al-lati wasi’at kulli shay’in an taghfira li
O Allah, I ask You by Your mercy which envelopes all things, that You forgive me.
[a du’a that Abdullah ibn Amar (radiAllahu anhu) used to say when breaking his fast – as reported by Ibn abi Mulaykah (radiAllahu anhu)]
When someone offers you food when you are fasting and you decline
When you are invited to eat, then reply to the invitation. if you are fasting, then invoke Allah’s blessings (on your host), and if you are not fasting then eat
[Muslim; 2:1054]
Upon reaching month of Rajab and Sha’ban
When the Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) sighted the moon of Rajab (two months before Ramadan) he used to pray to Allah in the following words:
اَللّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِى رَجَبَ وَ شَعْبَانَ وَ بَلِّغْنَا رَمَضَان
Allahumma barik lana fi Rajab wa Sha’ban wa ballighna Ramadan
O Allah! Make the months of Rajab and Sha’ban blessed for us, and let us reach the month of Ramadan (i.e. prolong our life up to Ramadan, so that we may benefit from its merits and blessings)
[Narrated by at-Tabarani and Ahmad]
When you are fasting, and someone is rude to you
اِنَّيْ صَائِمٌ ، اِنِّيْ صَائمٌ
Inni sa’iimu, inni sa’iimu
I am fasting, I am fasting
[Sahih al-Bukhari, Fath al-Bari of Al-Asqalani; 4:1-3, Muslim; 2:806]
Upon Sighting of the new Moon
اللَّهُ اَكْبَرُ ، اَللَّهُمَّ اَهِلَّهُ عَلَيْنَا بِالآَمْنِ وَلاِيمَانِ ، وَالسَّلَامَةِ وَالاِسْلَامِ ، وَالتَّوْفِيقِ لِمَا تُحِبُّ رَبَّنَا وَتَرْضَى ، رَبُّنَا وَرَبُّكَ اللَّهُ
Allahu Akbar. Allahumma ahillahu ‘alayna bil-amni wal-imaani, was-salaamati, wal-Islami, wat-tawfeeqi lima tuhibbu Rabbana wa tardha. Rabbuna wa RabbukAllahu
Allah is the Greatest. O Allah bring us the new moon with security and faith, with peace and in Islam, and in harmony with what our Lord Loves and what pleases Him. Our Lord and your Lord is Allah
[at-Tirmidhi 5:504, ad-Darimi 1:336]
Upon seeing the first dates of the season
اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي ثَمَرِنَا ، وَ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي مَدِينَتِنَا وَ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي صَاعِنَا ، وَبَارِكْ لَنَا فِي مُدِّنَا
Allahumma barik lana fi thamarina, wa barik lana fi madinatina, wa barik lana fi saa’ina, wa barik lana fi muddina
O Allah! Bless us in our dates, and bless us in our town, bless us in our saa’ and in our Mudd’
(saa’ and Mudd’ are dry measures used for agricultural produce by the Arabs in the Prophet’s time)
[at-Tirmidhi 5:504, ad-Darimi 1:336]
Recited at intervals of taraweeh prayers
سُبْحَانَ ذِى الْمُلْكِ وَ الْمَلَكُوْتِ سُبْحَانَ ذِى الْعِذَّْْةِ وَ الْعظْمَةِ وَ، الْهَيْبَةِ وَ الْقُدُرَةِ ، وَالْكِبْرِيَآءِ وَ الْجَبْرُتِ، سُبْحَانَ الْمَلِكِ الْحَىِّ الَّذِىْ لايُنَامُ وَ لا يَمُوُتُ، سُبُّوحٌ ، قُدُّوْسٌ، رَبُّ الْمَلَئِكَةِ وَ الرُّوُحِ لَآ اِلهَ اِلَّا اللَّهُ نَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ ، نَسْئَلُكَ الْجَنَّةَّ وَ نَعُوُذُ بِكَ مِنَ النّارِ
Subhana dhil Mulki wal Malakuti, Subhana dhil izzati wal aDhmati wal haybati wal Qudrati, wal kibriyaa’i wal jabaroot Subhanal Malikil hayyil ladhi, la yunaamu wa la yamūtu, Subbuhun, Quddusun, Rabbul malaa’ikati war-rooh
La ilaha illal lahu, nustugfirullahi
nas ‘alukul jannati, wa na udhubika min an-naar
Glorified is the Owner of the Kingdom of the earth and the heavens; Glorified is the Possessor of Honour and Magnificence and Awe, and Power and Greatness and Omnipotence
Glorified is the Sovereign, the Living, Who does neither sleep nor die
O all Glorious, All Holy one, Our lord and the Lord of the Angels, And the soul.
There is no God but You, Forgive us, Grant us Paradise, and save us from (hell) fire.
Upon breaking the fast in someone’s home
أفْطَرَ عِنْدَكُمُ الصَّائِمُونَ، وَ أَكَلَ طَعَامَكُمُ الأبْرَارُ، وَ صَلَّتْ عَلَيْكُم ُ الْمَلائِكَةُ
Aftara ‘indakumus saa’imuna, wa akala ta’aamakumul-abraaru, wasallat ‘alaikumul mala’ikat
May those who are fasting break their fast in your home, and may the dutiful and pious eat your food and may the angels send prayers upon you.
[abu Dawud 3:367, ibn Majah 1:556, an Nasa’i]
On Lailatul Qadr – the Night of Power
Aishah (radhiya Allahu Ta’ala anha), that she said: “O Messenger of Allah! What if I knew which night Lailatul-Qadr was, then what should I say in it?” He said ‘Say
اَللَّهُمَّ اِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ ، تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي
Allahumma innaka ‘affuwwun tuhibbul ‘afwa fa’fu ‘anni’ “ O Allah You are The One Who pardons greatly, and loves to pardon, so pardon me.
[at Tirmidhi]
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English Meaning Translated by Dr. S. Ahmad
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Oh Allah, all praise is due to You; and to You is due all gratitude and thanks; and to You returns all matters – the open of them, and the hidden of them
Glory to the Lord of power and dominion; glory to the One who will not die; glory to the One who gives life to His creation, and He will not die
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Glory to the One who is Lord of all lords [arbaab]; glory to the One who facilitates all means; glory to the One whose throne [`arsh] is in the heavens, and in the earth is His authority [sultaan]; glory to the One whom no creature of this life [dunyaa] can see, and Whom no sense can perceive; and Whom description seekers cannot perceive; and Whom incidents do not change; and He does not fear His creatures
He knows the weight of the mountains; and the measure of the oceans; and the count of rain; and the number of veins of the trees; and the amount of the darkness of nights and the brightness of days
Oh Giver of refuge for those who seek refuge; Beloved of those who love; Hope of those who are cut off [munqat`iyeen]; Raiser of the fallen; The One who is with broken hearts; Who answers the calls of the dejected; the Mercy of this life and the hereafter and the Compassion of both; Who answers the desires of those in need
He knows the minds of the silent; One who does not have a partner from whom He must seek, or an angel from whom He asks and is refused, or one who is thankful to Him but is deprived
Glory is due to Allah, and praise; all glory is due to Allah
Oh Allah, guide us by Your favor among those whom You have guided; and forgive us among those whom You have forgiven; and be our Protector among those whom You have protected; and bless us in all that You have given us; and save us and keep away from us any evil which You have decreed; verily You decree and none decrees besides what You decree; and none is abased whom You befriend; and none holds power whom You oppose. Blessed are You, our Lord, exalted; and to You are due all thanks, for Your blessings and bounty; we seek forgiveness from Allah from all sins and we repent to You; there is no refuge or place of shelter except for to You
Oh Allah, distance our sins [ma’seeya] from our obedience to You that will lead us to paradise; and indeed from certainty in faith [yaqeen] comes difficulty in the life of this world [dunyaa]
And bless us our hearing, and our sight, and our faculties, as long as You allow us to live; and make them protectors for us against the transgressions we have committed; and make us victorious over our enemies; and do not allow us to have problems in our deen; and do not allow us to make the life of this world our greatest concern; and remove from us difficulty in attaining knowledge; and do not make hellfire our destination; and make jannah our home; and do not impose upon us, because of our sins, people who lack mercy and do not fear You (as authorities over us)
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah, preserve us with steadfastness in Islam while we’re standing; and preserve us in Islam while we’re sitting; and preserve us in Islam while we’re sleeping
Oh Allah bless us with a pure life; and an easy death; and a return to You without grief and difficulty;
Oh Allah help us with our death; and with the grave and its punishment; and from slipping from the siraat; and the Day of Reckoning and its terror
Our Lord, You created us in the best of forms; and You granted us sustenance from Your bounty; and You taught us and gave us guidance; and then we disobeyed You openly, but You forgave us; and we committed sins, but You availed us from them; Your generosity has been descending upon us, yet we sin easily, and we are weak; if You look to our account then we indeed deserve punishment; but Your mercy is more expansive than our sins, so grant us Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah give us, and do not deprive us; and increase for us, and do not decrease us; and be generous to us, and do not be severe with us; and grace us, and do not disgrace us; and help us, and do not forsake us
Oh Allah, make white our faces (with light); and give us our books on our right; and raise our degrees in status; and make our balances heavy (on the side of good); and overlook our sins [sayee`aat]
Oh Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth; Lord of Majesty and Bounty; by Your power which does not exhaust, we ask, Oh Allah, Oh the Most Merciful
Make our vision lighted by Your Book; so that our tongues will manifest (from it); and lighten our graves (with it); and by it forgive our sins [dhunoob]; and improve with it our affairs
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah, allow the month of Ramadan to be completed in Your pleasure; [–]; and with us attaining the success of entering Your garden
Oh our Lord, this holy month has indeed past; and we stand fearful and shaking before You; and we hope in You; accept from us, our Lord, our fasting [sawm]; and our standing in worship [qiyaamina]; and our prayers [salaatina]; and our remembrance [adhkaarina]; and all our deeds; and do not reject our deeds on the Day of Judgement, the Day of regret and shame
Oh our Lord, close all gates except Your gate; and do not reject us from Your presence; and if You do so, we have no power nor strength save You
La ilaha illa Allah… He who wills the number of footsteps on the surface of the earth, and on steps; and all praise is due to Allah, He in Whose hand is the keys of escape [farraj]
Oh our Hope when all doors are closed; and our Hope when all links are cut; and when there is a barrier between us and our family and our people (and we stand alone)
La ilaha illa Allah… oh Allah do not let this gathering disperse except when our sins are forgiven; and our efforts accepted; and our good deeds counted
Oh the Powerful, the Most Forgiving; by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah, forgive all the Muslims that have died who bore witness to Your oneness; and (who bore witness) to Your messenger with his message; and who died upon that
Oh Allah, forgive them and grant them Your mercy; and pardon them; and be generous with them; and bless their arrival; and make wide their entrance; and wash them with water and coolness; and purify them from their sins as clothes are washed of dirt
Oh Allah reward them and grant them goodness in the best way; and pardon and forgive their sins [sayee`aat]; so that they feel tranquility in their graves; and so that on the day of judgement they will be among the protected ones;
Oh Allah, move them from the narrowness of the grave and the insects, to everlasting jannah; with [–], comfort and vast shade
Oh Allah, grant us mercy when we reach where they have reached, under casket and soil, alone; oh Allah, grant us mercy when our families wash us; and mercy when they shroud us; and mercy when they carry us on their shoulders; and mercy when they lower us into our graves; and mercy when they throw on us dirt
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
oh Allah, bring down upon our graves the light of our fasting; and the light of our prayers [salah]; and the light of our recitation of Qur’an
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah, who hears all; and who can revive the dead; and who will dress the bones with flesh after death; have mercy on our weaknesses; straighten our affairs; and end our deaths in good deeds
Oh Allah ornament our graves with the gardens of paradise; [–]
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
oh Allah, forgive the Muslim men and the Muslim women; and the believing men and the believing women; those living and those dead; You are our Protector; Hearer, the Near, the One who answers our dua
Oh Allah, we ask You for all good [khayr]; the sooner of it and the later; what we know of it and what we don’t know; and we seek refuge in You from all evil [sharr]; the sooner of it and the later; what we know of it and what we don’t know
Oh Allah, whatever You have distributed in this blessed night of health and well being, then make us, oh our Lord, among the fortunate who receive from this distribution; and whatever You have distributed in this night of trial [bala`a], keep it from us and from the Muslims
Oh Allah strengthen Islam and the Muslims; and disgrace shirk and the mushrikeen; and smash the enemies of the deen
Oh Allah, our Lord, better the condition of the Muslims; oh Allah better the young of us; and better the old of us; and better the women of us; and make better the children of us; and our spouses
Oh Allah, forgive the Muslim women, those present and those absent; oh Allah, raise their status; and make secure their dignity and honor [awraat]; and accept from them their good deeds
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah, help Your forces and Your devoted servants [awliyaa] of those who believe [mumineen]; amongst the elders, the scholars, and the pious [shuyookh, ulema, saliheen]
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh Allah, we ask You by Your beautiful names; and Your exalted attributes; in this blessed night; save our necks from the hellfire Oh Allah, save our necks from the hellfire Oh Allah, save our necks from the hellfire
Oh Allah, save the necks of our fathers; and our mothers; and our brothers; and our sisters; and our paternal uncles; and our paternal aunts; and our maternal uncles; and our maternal aunts; and those who love us for Your sake; and those who love each other for Your sake; and those who lead us to good [khayr]; and those who facilitate good; and all the Muslims, oh Lord of the worlds
Oh Allah, help Your servants and the mujahideen in Your way in all places; Oh Allah help your worshippers in Chechnya; and in Bosna; and in Palestine; and in Lebanon; and in all other places
Oh Allah, make firm their feet; Oh Allah guide their aim; oh Allah, join them on the word of clear truth
Oh our Lord..
Overlook our sins when we reach The Gate and do not return us in disappointment
Oh Allah, accept our dua Oh Allah, accept our dua Oh Allah, accept our dua
and do not return us in disappointment; and do not deprive us from Your generosity that we seek; and do not return us deprived from Your blessings
Oh Allah, make us from amongst the fortunate who will attain the reward of laylatul qadr Oh Allah, make us from amongst the fortunate who will attain the reward of laylatul qadr Oh Allah, make us from amongst the fortunate who will attain the reward of laylatul qadr
by Your mercy, oh the Most Merciful of those who show mercy
Oh our Lord, grant us good in this life, and good in the hereafter, and keep us from the punishment of the fire
Oh Allah, we seek refuge in You from Your displeasure [sakhatik]; and we seek Your forgiveness, and we seek refuge in You from Your punishment
I cannot account for the praises that are due to You; You are as You praise Yourself. And peace and blessings be upon the messenger Muhammad, and upon his family and companions.
Ameen.
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