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Verses of Holy Qur’an Heal and the Wisdom is to Ask

Verses of Holy Qur’an Heal and the Wisdom is to Ask

Healing in the Qur’an and Sunnah, Volume 1

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

22 December 2012 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.

Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,

nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`alaa fee haadha 'l-masjid.

Dastoor yaa Sayyidee, madad.

Every one of us around the world, in general, Muslim and non-Muslim, have something in common: everyone is trying to eliminate as much as possible from this problem that is facing everyone, that comes on all of us without distinguishing the child, adult, young and old, at any time in our lives. People only have a basic understanding that this is a common issue, but they cannot determine when it comes and when it goes. When it comes, it comes suddenly and when it goes, it goes slowly and then disappears. So all people share this issue of sickness, from the time of Sayyidina Adam (a) up to today and until Judgment Day.

Sickness hits everyone; there is not a single person safe from either physical or spiritual sickness and both require an expert to eliminate it from the person under its influence, who tries to lower it as much as possible. Many people recover from physical sickness and some might not recover. Similarly, regarding spiritual sickness that concerns the soul, some people might recover from it and some might not.

Which is more difficult, physical sickness or spiritual sickness? Spiritual sickness is more difficult to treat and not everyone can be cured from it. On the other hand, physical sickness might look more difficult and in reality many get cured from it, although some cannot. So in that case, for physical sickness people must go to a wise person, if you want to call him a doctor, and for spiritual sickness you might call him a guide, in order to try to eliminate as much as possible.

If someone comes to you with his story about his sickness, what do you want to do? For us and most people, they don't go that route, they go a different route, but really if we are mu’min and believe in Allah (swt) and His Prophet (s) we go the route that Holy Qur'an and the hadith of the Prophet (s) has encouraged us.

The Prophet (s) said:

ما أنزل اللهُ مِنْ داءٍ إلا أَنْزَلَ لَهُ شِفَاءً

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Maa anzal-Allahu min daa'in illa anzala lahu shifaa’an.

Allah did not send a sickness except He sent with it a cure. (Abu Hurayrah in Sahih Bukhari)

So if we believe in that, then the responsibility of curing is with the One Who Cures, which is Allah (swt). So Allah (swt) will send you a cure if you really believe in what He or the Prophet (s) said, and the Prophet (s) said, “Allah did not send a sickness except He sent with it a cure.”

And Allah (swt) said in the Holy Qur'an:

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءتْكُم مَّوْعِظَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَشِفَاء لِّمَا فِي الصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Yaa ayyuha an-naasu qad ja’atkum maw`izhatun min rabbikum wa shifaa’un limaa fi ’s-sudoori wa hudan wa rahmatun li ‘l-mu’mineen.

O Mankind! There has come to you a guidance from your Lord and a healing for (the diseases) in your hearts, and for those who believe a guidance and a mercy. (Surah Yunus, 10:57)

Allah (swt) said “humanity,” not only Muslims. “We sent realities and verses from Holy Qur'an,” which might be from any verse of Holy Qur'an there is a secret, because He didn't say, “We send from some aayaat of Holy Qur'an,” but rather, “min al-qur’an, from the entire Holy Qur'an,” what is a cure for people, so that is in general. So for an expert--one whose heart and mind Allah opened and connected him to his guide, and from his guide to the Prophet (s), and from Prophet (s) to Allah--that person will be able to understand the secrets of special aayaat and through reciting them will cure the sick.

From a hadith of `Usama ibn Shareek (r) as reported in Musnad of Imam Ahmad, the Prophet (s) said:

عن ابن مسعود أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: ما أنزل الله عز وجل داء إلا أنزل له دواء، علمه من علمه وجهله من جهله.

Inna Allah lam yunazilloo daa'an illa yunazillu bihi shifaa’an. `alimahu man `alimahu wa jahila bihi man jahila.

Allah did not send down any illness except He sent a cure with it and whoever knows it knows, and whoever was ignorant remained ignorant of it.

The point of this hadith is `alimahu man `alimahu, “and whoever knows it knows.” The secret of curing illnesses in the Holy Qur’an is not known to everyone, that is only known to a few people and those few can dive into meanings of Holy Qur'an and extract ways or verses to treat that person’s specific sickness. For example, you tell a doctor that you have a headache, he gives you two tablets and the headache goes, but if you tell the doctor you have a headache and he gives a cream for your hand, that does not correspond to the sickness. So there are specific people who can dive into Holy Qur'an and find secrets in the specific verses to cure you and your family of illnesses. That is why the Prophet (s) said, “Only some know it and others do not.”

The hadith continues:

إن الله لم يضع داء إلا وضع له شفاء ، أو دواء ، إلا داء واحدا ، قالوا : يا رسول الله ما هو ؟ قال : الهرم

In Allaha laa yad`a daa’an illa wada`a lahu shifaa (aw dawaa) illa daa'an waahid. Qaaloo: yaa Rasoolullah maa huwa? Qaala: al-haram.

Treat the servants of Allah, for verily Allah does not put any illness except that He put its cure, except (regarding) one sickness. And they asked, “What is that?” and he (s) said, “al-haram, death. Other than that, Holy Qur'an can give cure to anyone.”

This applies to both sicknesses of the soul and the body; the remedy for both is in Holy Qur'an, but there are conditions: you cannot do what you want and recite verses as you like and it will be done, as Allah (swt) said:

فَاسْأَلْ بِهِ خَبِيرًا

Fas’al bihi khabeera.

Ask (from) who is expert. (Surat al-Furqaan, 25:59)

You cannot ask just anyone as not everyone is an expert. You might ask someone and get an answer, but if he is not an expert his answer will not bring a change. Holy Qur'an needs one who is expert in Holy Qur'an, which means those whom Allah protected and called ‘awliyaullah:’

أَلا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاء اللّهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ وَكَانُواْ يَتَّقُونَ

Alaa inna awliyaaullaahi laa khawfun `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon. Al-ladheena aamanoo wa kaanoo yattaqoon.

Behold! Verily on the Friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve; they who have attained faith and have always been conscious of Him. (Surah Yunus, 10:62-63)

They fear not because they are given all this knowledge. Another hadith narrated by Abu Dawood (r):

عن جابر بن عبد الله قال : خرجنا في سفر فأصاب رجلا منا حجر ، فشجه في رأسه ، ثم احتلم ، فسأل أصحابه فقال : هل تجدون لي رخصة في التيمم ؟ قالوا : ما نجد لك رخصة ، وأنت تقدر على الماء ، فاغتسل ، فمات ، فلما قدمنا على رسول الله أخبر بذلك ، فقال : قتلوه قتلهم الله ألا سألوا إذا لم يعلموا ؟ فإنما شفاء العي السؤال إنما كان يكفيه أن يتيمم ويعصر - أو يعصب - على جرحه خرقة ثم يمسح عليها ، ويغسل سائر جسده .

We were traveling in a group and, by mistake, one of us was hit on the head and received a very severe wound. When that happened, that person immediately slept. Blood came out and we tried to fix it as much as we could. That young man slept and when he awoke he needed a ghusl (due to nocturnal emission). He asked his friends, “Do I have a rukhsa, permission to make tayammum (with dust or soil) and not with water?” We said, “No, you cannot, because the bleeding stopped so you cannot make tayammum, you must make ghusl (shower with water).” So the man took the shower, prayed, and afterwards he died. When we arrived to the Prophet (s), we told him what happened and fa qaala an-Nabi (s) qataloohu, qaatalahumullah, Prophet (s) said we had killed him, and if we didn't know (what to do) why didn’t we ask the one who knows? And `Ataa said, “It reached us that the Prophet (s) said, ‘If he had washed his body and left out the head where the injury afflicted him [it would have sufficed].’”

So for every spiritual sickness there are spiritual tablets and for every physical sickness there are special verses from the Holy Qur’an to cure them. So you must ask the one who knows or otherwise you are killing the person by giving a recipe or prescription from yourself. If they didn’t know why didn’t they ask, for verily the cure for the sickness is one: to ask! You cannot try to cure yourself. Allah (swt) cures you through His Holy Verses of Holy Qur'an and through Holy Hadith of the Prophet (s). It was enough to make tayammum, as the Prophet (s) answered, instead of telling him to take a shower, which allowed water to enter his wound and caused an inflammation in his head, which killed him.

They made fatwa without knowledge. What is happening today? They make fatwa without knowledge and cause chaos everywhere, which is a sickness by itself! The Prophet (s) said he was able to make tayammum, to tie his wound with his hand and when it healed he could then use water in wudu. He could have wrapped his wound, place his wet hand on the bandage, that would have been enough for him to pray!

Prophet (s) said:

فأخبر أن الجهل داء ، وأن شفاءه السؤال

Al-jahlu daa'an wa anna shifa'ahu as-suaal.

Ignorance is sickness and the cure is to ask.

So all of us are ignorant and to come out of ignorance is to ask. Allah (swt) said in Holy Qur'an:

اسْأَلُواْ أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ

Fas'al ahl adh-dhikri in kuntum laa ta`lamoon.

Ask the People of Dhikr (Holy Qur’an) if you don't know. (Surat an-Nahl, 16:43)

So it is always important to ask the right people in order to get the right cure. All of us have sicknesses. We have physical illnesses and go to someone who knows and he gives us an answer, and sometimes we have spiritual sickness that we need to go to someone else for the cure. Allah (swt) said that Holy Qur'an contains cure a for human beings, and:

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاء وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلاَ يَزِيدُ الظَّالِمِينَ إَلاَّ خَسَارًا

Wa nunazzilu mina al-qur’ani ma huwa shifaa’un wa rahmatun lil-mu’mineen wa laa yuzeedu dhaalimeen illa khasaara.

And We sent down in the Qur’an such things that have healing and mercy for the believers.

(Surat al-’Israa, 17:82)

So don’t look right and left (for the cure), but go to those who know. And this hadith is mentioned by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, a student of Ibn Taymiyya, in his book Madarij as-Salikeen, from Abi Sa`eed. intalaqoo ba`d ashaab an-Nabi (s) fee safarin, “A group of Companions of the Prophet (s) were travelling.” You know in that time it was desert, and they travelled and reached an area where there was water and a date tree, and a small village among the palms. They asked the Arabs (Bedouins) to host them but they refused, which is not the custom of Arabs, and while discussing this the leader of the village was bitten by a scorpion or snake, we don’t know exactly as they didn’t say. His people tried every possible way to save their leader. You know the desert scorpion has a poisonous sting and can kill the person immediately. So they tried everything and couldn’t cure him. Then they said, “Let us ask these people who just came; maybe they have knowledge or something with them that can cure him.”

They approached those people and asked, “O people! Our leader has been bitten. We have tried everything and nothing is working!” So where did they go? They went to a guide, which means you need a guide. When you have a sickness or problem or you have to do business, or you have a question you must go to the one who knows something, not to a charlatan, who is flashy and just showing off, and who will deviate you! No, we are Ahlu ’s-Sunnah wa ’l-Jama`ah and we follow the Prophet (s), the Sahaabah (r) and the Four Imams, and we don’t accept anyone who deviates from Siraat ul-Mustaqeem! You must get a cure from someone who follows Shari`ah.

And they came to that group of Sahaabah (r) and asked if they have anything to cure their leader. One of them said, w ‘Allahi sa urqii, which is ruqya, to recite verses of the Holy Qur'an, which some Arabs call ‘hijab,’ a veil to protect and save you, and some call ‘taweez,’ which is from Holy Qur'an and it means to seek refuge in Allah from Shaytan. This is proof from hadith of the Prophet (s) for those who say to not believe in them. He said, “W’ Allahi, I can recite on the man to cure him but I will not, as you refused to host us. I am not going to recite for you until you give me compensation. If you had hosted us, we would do it and not take anything. Now we will do it, but you have to compensate us.”

So the people discussed what they had to give the Sahaabah, who said, “You have to give one qati`a min al-ghanam, a herd of sheep,” which may have been twenty, thirty or fifty sheep, Allah knows how many there were. They said, “Okay, no problem, we will do it.” Then, one Sahaabi (r) recited Surat al-Fatihah, “Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem. Alhamdullahi Rabbi 'l-`Alameen. Ar-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem. Maalika yawm ad-deen. Iyyaka n`abudu wa iyyaka nasta`een. Ihdinas siraat al-mustaqeem. sirat al-ladheena an`amta `alayhim ghayri ‘l-maghdoobi `alayhim wa laa dhaalleen. Ameen,” and spat (not blew) on the wound where the leader had been bitten. It was as if that leader had been tied with a chain that was suddenly taken away, and he was able to stand up and walk completely with no pain!

So the village people gave the Sahaabah (r) the herd of sheep. Some Sahaabah said, “Let us divide the herd among us,” while others said, “No, let us go to the Prophet (s) and whatever he decides we will do.”

So they took that herd of sheep to the Prophet (s) and mentioned what had happened to them. He asked them, “How did you know that was ruqya? What you did is correct and put a share for me from what you got from them.” We know it is correct because they spit and recited Surat al-Fatihah on that sickness and Allah cured it.

There is so much explanation here! It means there are ruqyas that you recite and Allah (swt) will accept, but we will come to that later, not now. The one reciting must be qualified and the one receiving must believe the recitation will benefit him, so both sides must have faith. The one reciting has to know that Allah (swt) will cure but he is doing what Allah said in Holy Qur'an, “We revealed what is healing to Mankind and a cure,” and the one on other side must know those are verses from Holy Qur'an that will cure him.

Therefore, sometimes you see the person is cured and sometimes you do not and that is based on belief. What the Sahaabi recited and spit on the wound corresponded to that particular sickness. It might be you are bit by a scorpion and read Surat al-Fatihah and you are cured, because the medicine for the bite of that creature was Surat al-Fatihah. However, everything he (the shaykh) recites has different affects and there are different ways to cure different sicknesses, but that is why the Prophet (s) said Surat al-Fatihah is for whatever it is read on. Also, that depends on the one reading: are they pure and clean, are they a guide, when they breathe, can angels take their breath to the Divine Presence (i.e. is it pure)? So the success of that depends on many different elements and principles.

We leave it here and will continue in the evening. It is important for people to learn and understand. This is the beginning of the series on different illnesses and their cures as known in Islamic spirituality.

Bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

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Allah (swt) Wants You to Persist in Asking Him

Allah (swt) Wants You to Persist in Asking Him

Healing in the Qur'an and Sunnah, Volume 3

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

23 December 2012 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan

Zhuhr Suhbah

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.

Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,

nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`alaa fee haadha 'l-masjid.

أَطِيعُواْ اللّهَ وَأَطِيعُواْ الرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الأَمْرِ مِنكُمْ

Atee`oollaha wa atee`oo 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you. (Surat an-Nisa, 4:59)

Dastoor, madad yaa Sultan al-Awliya, Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani.

In continuation of the other two suhbahs, we will further discuss the topic of divine healing. Any kind of dhikrullah, verses of Holy Qur’an or prayers, will heal us because they are Allah’s Holy and Divine Words and every word carries unlimited miraculous power. The Holy Qur’an is not an ordinary book that people read and then put aside on the shelf. The Holy Qur’an is the Holy, Divine Words of Allah, His Uncreated Ancient Words, Kalamullahi ’l-Qadeem.

Today you go to so-called “healers” and they give you a different set of exercises to do and different forms of meditation that you can also perform in order to be healed, that is the goal. Sometimes that might work but not every time, because they are using their own blend of different ideas and different beliefs that they put together and they try to make you focus on that. Sometimes it works because there is an “influence.”

As I mentioned before, a long time ago in Los Angeles I was in a conference on healing organized by Harvard University. They had conducted different experiments, and in one they placed a few sick people in a room and a healer from outside used different kinds of words, voices and sounds. The sick people in the room began to feel a change in their system. When the treatment ended after many such sessions, some people felt they had been healed, but there is always a question mark about such treatments. I am not going into a discussion about the conference, but it was very beneficial to present this form of healing in a scientific exposition.

One of the experiments they conducted was to use the recitation of the Holy Qur’an for healing. They placed a different machine all over the body to see if sickness responded to recitation of Holy Qur’an and they found organs began to respond and heal. Of course we know this for a fact, as they are Allah’s Divine Words. I know one doctor from Florida who treats his patients only with the recitations of the Holy Qur’an. He places headsets on his patients, they listen to the recitations of the Holy Qur’an and get healed. So yes, it is possible to cure with what we explained yesterday, by dhikrullah.

As mentioned by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, who is from the school of Ibn Taymiyya, as long as Holy Qur’an is read by someone who is experienced and authorized, a patient can be healed by reciting dhikrullah and the verses of Qur’an and du`as. A person may be healed, but both sides must believe in the process: the patient has to believe that the holy verses are going to cure and the healer has to believe that dhikrullah is going to heal. If the healer does not have this belief and only heard from someone and tries to cure by reciting dhikrullah, it may or may not work because it depends on the one authorized to use it. That is why you see many people who use it without authorization might not cure their patients.

It is said the recitation is going to heal, as there is no doubt in dhikrullah and Holy Verses of Qur’an.

Sometimes doctors give medicine and it doesn’t work on you or it might poison you as it has side effects. Also, if you give a strong dose of the verses of Holy Qur’an, because the verses carry a lot of energy and heavenly powers, so when it comes on someone who is not ready for it you may harm him or her, as Allah (swt) said in Holy Qur’an:

لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ وَتِلْكَ الْأَمْثَالُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Law anzalnaa haadha ’l-quraana `alaa jabalin la-raaytahu khaashi`an mutasaddi`an min khashyatillaahi wa tilka ’l-amthaalu nadribuhaa li ’n-naasi la`allahum yatafakkaroon.

Had We sent down this Qur'an on a mountain, verily you would have seen it humble itself and cleave asunder for fear of Allah. Such are the similitudes that We propound to men that they may reflect.

(Surat al-Hashr, 59:21)

“If We had sent down the Holy Qur’an on a mountain it would have shattered completely,” because it cannot carry the manifestation of the Holy Qur’an. So when you give an ayah which has a strong influence on a patient who can take only a small dose you will destroy them with the big dose, and you cannot know the (proper) level. That is why in hospitals they say not to give an injection without a doctor’s prescription, because they are responsible. Similarly, awliyaullah are responsible and are not given this knowledge to kill people, but to heal. So if you don’t give the right dose you might not heal but kill; a bigger dose may kill and a lower dose might have no effect. Therefore, don’t say the Holy Qur’an did not have an effect because it is your mistake, as you were unable to find the right dose to give from dhikrullah and verses of Holy Qur’an and du`a. That is why we say:

رب اشعث اغبر لو اقسم على الله لأبره

Rubba ash`ath aghbara law aqsama `ala allahi la-abbarah.

There may be a disheveled, dusty person who, if he swears an oath by Allah, Allah will fulfill it.

(Muslim)

It means Allah (swt) will not reject anyone through his outside appearance because He looks at the inside.

إن اللّه لا ينظر إلى اجسادكم ولا الى صوركم ولكن ينظر الى قلوبكم. رواه مسلم

Inna ’Llah laa yanzhuru ilaa ajsaadikum wa laa ila soowarikum wa laakin yanzhuru ila quloobikum.

Verily Allah does not look at your bodies nor at your appearances but He looks at your hearts.

(Muslim)

So for example, in some of the Subcontinent countries, you may go to a healer dressed in a technicolor outfit like a rainbow, sitting on a couch with incense in front of him that he drops on fire to make smoke, then you suddenly hear him say, “ALLAH!” and everyone present becomes afraid and worried. Such people are charlatans. They cheat you by giving you herbal medicine that can make you drunk and is not a painkiller. They use an herb in Yemen similar to marijuana that makes you feel okay for a while, then you come back for more in a few days, but in reality you are poisoned. And although the place looks nice with big pictures all around, in reality you are being cheated. Instead, if you go to a poor and humble person sitting in a masjid, his recitation will cure you. This is because while he seems poor, his heart is not. That is why it depends from whom you are taking these adhkaar or who is reciting it for you. It is Allah Who cures and that one is advising you and cures by Allah’s Divine Words.

So the first issue that we explained yesterday is du`a. Allah likes that His servant asks, and if you don’t He is angry! Also, Allah is not happy with a servant who complains to someone other than Him. Today we go and complain everywhere and Allah does not like that, as He said:

وَقَالَ رَبُّكُـمْ ٱدْعُونِى أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ

Wa qaala rabbukum ad`oodnee astajib lakum.

And Your Lord says, “Call on Me, I will respond to you.” (Surah Ghaafir, 40:6)

But you have to keep asking as it is said in Islam:

Ajall al-karamaat dawaam at-tawfeeq.

The best of miracles is to be consistent.

This means constancy in your daily dhikr, so don’t say, “I see no benefit,” as it will come. You think doctors can give you benefit when they like? Allah gave them knowledge of different cures for physical medicine. He gave awliyaullah different divine verses from the Holy Qur’an not only to cure the physical body, but your soul as well. The importance is to the soul, as it returns to Allah and the body goes back to the earth. Look at how sick our soul is. That is why you must connect yourself to a guide who will guide you to different awraad in order to cure your different spiritual illnesses!

That is why we must al-ilhaa fi ’d-du`a, be persistent in asking. For example, if you go to a person and knock on their door saying, “I need a favor from you,” they open the door and then close it. You come back another time and knock. They close the door again. Then you come back and keep coming back, until finally they open the door and say, “What do you want?”

You say, “Please, I need this favor from you.”

Finally they say, “Alright, come in.”

Allah likes His servant to keep bugging, so keep bugging and knocking (at His Door) and don’t stop! Allah is never unhappy with someone who is begging and asking. That is why Sayyidina Abayazid (q) was knocking and bugging consistently, although Allah (swt) left him (without a reply) for many years. Does Allah not know His servant is knocking? He wants to see how much you keep bugging, because some people ask once or twice and then they stop. Allah does not like you to stop because He is the Creator and we are the servants, we are dependent on Him, so ask! And so Abayazid (q) kept knocking and bugging, asking, “I’m here, I’m not going until You open Your door!” Allah sent an angel to ask him, “You want to come to Me?”

Kayf al-wusool ilayk? “How do I approach You?” as he didn’t even know how to come to the Divine Presence. And because he was persistently bugging, Allah opened to Him sent him an angel telling him, Utruk nafsaka wa ta`al, “Leave your ego and come! If you want Me, that (ego) is your enemy.”

You cannot have two in your heart, your heart has to carry One. Can a heart carry two people? It will fail. Allah gave every person one heart and that heart is inhabited by Allah (swt), Prophet (s) said:

قلب الموءمن بيت الرب

Qalbu ’l-mumin baytu ’r-rabb

The heart of the believer is the House of Allah.

And He said:

ما وسعني أرضي ولا سمائي ولكن وسعني قلب عبدي المؤمن

Maa wasi`anee ardee wa laa samaa'ee wa laakin wasi`anee qalbi `abdee al-mu'min.

Neither My Heavens nor My Earth contain Me, but the heart of My believing servant contains Me.

(Hadith Qudsee, Al-Ihya of al-Ghazali)

So if you want to come, come! But keep asking, keep bugging, “I will open,” that is al-ilhaa fi ’d-du`a.

From from Anas (r) that the Prophet (s) said:

حَدِيثِ أَنَسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : لَا تَعْجِزُوا فِي الدُّعَاءِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَهْلِكُ مَعَ الدُّعَاءِ أَحَدٌ .

Laa t`ajazoo fi ’d-du`a fa innahu laa yahlaku ma`a ad-du`ai ahad.

Don’t be lazy with du`a, don’t lose hope with du`a. No one will be destroyed with du`a. No one will lose when making du`a. (Haakim’s Sahih)

“Halak” means destruction; no one who keeps on making du`a will be destroyed. Du`a keeps everyone safe. Too many people come and I will mention this story. Once Diomande brought a lady to see me in New York, she was carrying a child in her arms and she was crying. She is from Ivory Coast, his country.

He said, “She needs du`a.” Alhamdulillah, with Mawlana’s barakah, I have permission to do that or else it will be difficult on you if you have no permission.

I said, “What is your difficulty?”

She said, “They found a tumor in my head and it is not benign, it is cancer. They have given me two or three months to live.”

What to do? As we are saying, make du`a. So I read Surat al-Fatihah on her head and on water seven times for her to drink and said, “May Allah make it easy, inshaa-Allah.”

She said, “I have an X-ray next week, an MRI.” She went to take the X-ray and they called me by phone, ask Diomande. The doctors checked the MRI and the tumor was gone! That is one case of many.

The week before last, there was one lady who comes from New Jersey and she has a daughter-in-law who for many years was not becoming pregnant. Every time I go there she says they have no children. So I said, “Be patient and keep making du`a.” This time she came and said, “My daughter-in-law is pregnant!” How many hundreds and thousands came to Mawlana (q) and Grandshaykh (q) and were cured? The cure is not because of yourself, but because you are connected to awliyaullah who gave permission on their behalf; the cure was not even coming from them, but they are a means to take that petition to Prophet (s) and he takes it to Allah (swt), Who cures you as Allahu ash-Shafee! Guides take you to reach there and they teach you how to ask through du`a.

Sayyida `Ayesha (r) said that Prophet (s) said:

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُلِحِّينَ فِي الدُّعَاءِ .

Inna ’Llah yuhibbu ’l-mulihheenu fi ’d-du`a.

Allah loves those who are always persistent in du`a. (al-Awza`ee)

It means asking non-stop. Don’t say it didn’t happen! It is happening, it is written and it will happen according to how much you persist! I don’t want to give this example, it is a bad example, but there are many people who I see at grocery stores buying the lottery tickets and they have never won, but are persistent, thinking, “One day I will win.” How do they have that determination for the lottery, which Allah forbade for Muslims, and you don’t have such faith in Allah? You have to say to yourself, “Allah will respond to me,” but you must persist, ilhaa bi-du`a, “to be persistant in du`a,” that is the topic of this chapter.

He gave an example in Kitaab az-Zuhd by Imam Ahmad (r):

وَفِي كِتَابِ الزُّهْدِ لِلْإِمَامِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ : قَالَ مُوَرِّقٌ : مَا وَجَدْتُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ مَثَلًا إِلَّا رَجُلٌ فِي الْبَحْرِ عَلَى خَشَبَةٍ ، فَهُوَ يَدْعُو : يَا رَبِّ يَا رَبِّ لَعَلَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يُنْجِيَهُ .

`An-Qataada qaal, qaala mooriqun: maa wajadtu li’l-mu’mini mathalan illa rajulun fi’l-bahri `alaa khashabatin, fahuwa yada`u: yaa Rabb! ya Rabb! la`ala ’Llaha `azza wa jall yunjiyyahu.

Qataada said, “One person said, ‘I found an answer, a way for mu’mins, an example of persistence. If someone is in the middle of an ocean and a storm came and broke the boat, what would he do to save himself? He would jump on one of these wooden boats/planks and then he would float. Is that enough? No, he would also say, ‘Yaa Rabb!’ How many times would he say it? He would keep saying, ‘Yaa Rahman, yaa Allah, yaa Raheem!’ and he would never stop until he reaches safety. But if you say it once and stop, you might not reach safety.’”

Allah likes someone who is persisting, al-mulih fi ’d-du`a, as when He asked, “What do you want, yaa Abayazid? You are knocking, knocking, what do you want?!”

“I want You.”

“Okay, come to Me but leave your ego behind! You want Me? My Door is open.” He said this at the end after He had given him a hard time, like He gave Sayyidina Ahmad Badawi (q) a hard time.

He kept knocking on the door, “Yaa Rabbee, yaa Rabbee, yaa Rabbee!” and he heard a voice say, “What do you want?”...

Before when he was knocking, one person came and said, “Yaa Ahmad! You need the key to enter the Divine Presence? I have the key for you.”

He said, “No, no, I’m not taking the key from you!” this is arrogance, he was on that level of arrogance.

“From whom do want it then? I have the key for you, come and take it!”

“No, I want it from Allah, the Key-Maker!”

He said, “Okay.”

Allah left him like that, and every moment he kept saying, “Yaa Rabbee open, yaa Rabbee open, Yaa Rabbee open!”

After six months Allah opened and he heard a voice saying, “Yaa Ahmad, you want the key?”

He said, “Yaa Rabbee, I want the key!”

Angels are saying to him, “Okay, the key is with that man (you turned away), go and find him.”

Now he was at the mercy of that man. Allah had sent the key but he hadn’t taken it. Don’t let you arrogance play with your ego, it will change you easily! After six months that man showed up again and said, “You want the key?”

“Please!”

“Okay,” look how long they kept him persisting to open, to get something. He said, “Now I want the price, before it was free.”

He said, “How much?”

He said, “I don’t want your money, all the money of dunya is not enough for the key. I need your knowledge. That knowledge you built on arrogance, we don’t like it, we want to take it away from you.” Today all scholars build on arrogance, but not awliyaullah they are not arrogant and that is why their du`a is accepted immediately that is why you need to go to a wali and ask him to make du`a for you. That’s why we got to awliyaullah; look for them, where are they? There are 124,000 awliya in every time; one dies, one comes. There are not only the forty walis at high level, but you cannot refuse the others, you cannot disrespect them, you have to respect them. Out of 124,000 there are only 7,007 Naqshbandi and the rest are from other tariqahs, so you have to respect everyone. Sayyidina Ahmad Badawi (q) was from the Badawiyya Tariqah, not the Naqshbandi Tariqah, and this is his story. We don’t respect it? There are 3-4 million who go to his masjid/maqaam every year in Egypt!

So he said, “Okay, look into my eyes,” and Ahmad (q) looked into his eyes and he took all his knowledge, he didn’t even know how to recite Fatihah, and then he left him. But he was persist even when the children used to run after him and throw stones at him, saying, “Shaykh al-Islam went crazy!” He was beaten up but he was persistent, so be persistent!

After another six months that wali came back and poured into Ahmad Badawi’s (q) heart all this heavenly knowledge, then no one in his time could look in his eyes and thereafter he always wore a burqah covering his eyes so no one could look or they fainted from the light in them (that he received) because he was persistent and for two years he never stopped asking. So we must not stop asking, keep asking and Allah will open!

This is al-Ilhaa fi-Du`a. Next time we will go into (the chapter) Al-Afaat Alatee Tamn`a Athara ad-Du`a, “The different kind of affliction or bad things that prevent the acceptance of the du`a and prevent it from doing its job (being accepted).”

Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

Be what? Be persistent in du`a! Don’t say, “I didn’t get an answer,” never mind, because if you don’t get an answer you are not losing when you make du`a to Allah (swt)! He will grant you many rewards because He knows you are humble and you are asking.

May Allah forgive us, may Allah cure us, may Allah clean us, may Allah keep us with Prophet (s), may Allah keep us with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) in dunya and Akhirah, with Grandshaykh (q), yaa Rabbee, yaa Allah, and give us from what He gave to Prophet (s) and dress us from the manifestation of His Prophet (s) and extend our life to see Mahdi (a) and `Isaa (a)!

Bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

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Conditions of Du`a and How to Perfect It

Conditions of Du`a and How to Perfect It

Healing in the Qur’an and Sunnah, Volume 4

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

24 December 2012 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan

Zhuhr Suhbah

Allahumma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad (s) hatta yardaa Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah `Azeez Allah!

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Kareem Allah!

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Subhaan Allah!

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Sultan Allah!

Allah is the Creator! Allah doesn't need anyone, everyone is in need of Him! In order to give the ummah the best of this dunya and Akhirah, He gave us Sayyidina Muhammad (s), and the greatness of the Prophet (s) is from the Greatness of Allah (swt), and what the Prophet (s) showed us we follow, and for sure we are weak servants, helpless! Even if you become a leader you are still helpless. We are still struggling.

Grandshaykh `AbdAllah (q) liked to tell this story that some people might say is not nice, but it has big wisdom in it. There was a king who invited to his presence many people and he fed them. One time one of the invitees had with him a majdhoob, someone in a trance who is always attracted in Allah's love and he says things that people don't understand, although for sure he understands and awliyaullah understand.

So he invited that majdhoob to come along and the king offered the food and was happy looking and eating with them, and the majdhoob said, "O my king! The best thing in life is to pee (urinate) and to go to restroom (deficate)!"

At this, the king was upset. He said, “Who brought you here?”

The majdhoob said, “This man brought me here.”

So the king said, “Take him to prison, that one is majdhoob!” and he continued to say, “The best thing in life is to pee and go to the restroom!”

The king cursed him and the majdhoob ran away, but he made a du`a (and we have to be persistent in our du`a), “May Allah not make you pee and not go to the restroom!” and then he ran away like a bird and no one could catch him.

The next day the king could not go to the bathroom or do anything (to relieve himself) and the next day it was the same. He brought all doctors, homeopaths, etc., but no one could cure him, and finally he realized the only one who can cure him is that majdhoob, so he sent for him.

That majdhoob came strutting like a hero and asked him, “O King! Do you accept what I said?

The king said, “Yes.”

He said, “Okay, then say it publicly!”

The king said, “The best thing in life is to go to the restroom and pee.”

The majdhoob was teaching him that if Allah (swt) pulls one favor out you will be imbalanced and “you need that majdhoob to balance you.” Although the king brought all kinds of doctors to help him, they couldn’t, which was to show him that everything is in balance. If you have a problem, you must try to solve that problem and to keep nice everything nice that Allah (swt) gave you. If there is a problem ask Allah (swt).

Our belief is that everything is from Allah--what is good is from Him and what is bad is from us. So if someone comes and tells you, “I am seeing something wrong in you, try to fix it,” who pushed that person to say that? Is it not Allah also? Since we surrender and submit (to Allah) we must submit to what everyone says, as it is Allah Who makes him or her speak, to bring your attention to a particular issue. If someone keeps quiet, that is okay, but if someone mentions something to you for your own good, follow that! Don't be like Sayyidina Musa (a) who said to Sayyidina Khidr (a), “I’ll go along with you,” but later refused to accept when Khidr (s) made a hole in the boat and he said, “Why are you making a hole in the boat? You’re going to make everyone to fall in the ocean!” In fact, Khidr (a) had done that in order to prevent a tyrant king from coming and seizing the boat but that [knowledge] was hidden from Sayyidina Musa (a). So there are certain things you must follow [without question].

Why is there Prophetic Medicine? Why did the Prophet (s) cure people when he could have left it and said, “Leave it as it is, there is nothing to be done.” But this dunya is created with asbaab, causes: you do something, you get something. So whatever he gives you, you must follow.

As we mentioned in the prior session, a group of Sahaabah (r) went to a village where the leader of that village was bitten by a poisonous scorpion. The Sahaabah (r) cured him by reciting ruqya on him, which they were later compensated for. When they returned to the Prophet (s), he asked them to give him a share of (their compensation), which means he was indicating, “I am approving that everyone needs someone specialized in the particular pain he or she is in.”

It means there are some professionals who can check you. Why are people coming here? There is a spiritual cure for our souls in the words coming here that have been inherited through a spiritual chain from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) to Grandshaykh (q) and all the way to the Prophet (s). Whatever spiritual sickness the soul is inflicted by, there is a spiritual cure for them here. People come in order to be healed from their spiritual sickness. Why do we do dhikr every week? Although it is not an obligation, we do it every week. Grandshaykh `AbdAllah (q) and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) insist on attending the weekly dhikr for two reasons. If you don't want to do it, don’t do it, but for those who attend dhikr every week, Allah (swt) will waive whatever sins they have done from one week to another. Is that good or bad? It is good, so should we do it or not? The second reason, everyone who attends dhikrullah, kaffaaratan li saba`een majlis soow, 70,000 evil associations around your area will be cleansed from the barakah of your dhikr gathering! Yet this is only through one person from the gathering; for two people it will be 70,000 multiplied by 2, for three people, 70,000 multiplied by 3, and so on. So we must know that illnesses, both spiritual or physical, can be cured in any different way.

How to Perfect Your Du`a

1) Be persistent in making du`a; don’t stop.

As we said in the previous lectures, the Prophet (s) insisted that this (healing) has to be done through du`a: al-ilhaah bid'-du`a, continue on your position with determination. Allah (swt) likes when you keep insisting and continue making du`a, as the Prophet (s) said:

مَنْ لَمْ يَسْألِ اللَّه يَغْضِبْ عَلَيْهِ

Man lam yas’ali-Llaahi yaghdib `alayh

Whosoever does not supplicate to Allah, He will be angry with Him. (Tirmidhi)

So when you don't ask Allah (swt), He gets angry with you. Ask Him and keep asking! Be persistent in your du`a. Don't say, “I made du`a but it didn't work, so I will stop.” No, don't stop! When people want to receive grants, they submit paperwork and if they don’t get it they submit it again and again, until finally they say, “What is the benefit? We did our best, but it didn't work,” and they stop. They also say, “Those people submitted their grant paperwork and got it (immediately); they received the grant, but we didn’t!” You are not them, as they are dunya people and you are Akhirah people. If you didn’t get it, continue to be persistent as Allah (swt) likes that!

Ajalla al-karamaat dawaam at-tawfeeq.

The best of miracles is to be consistent (in what you are doing).

We pray five times a day. Can you say the next day, “I prayed yesterday so (I don't have to pray now)”? No, you have to pray! Some say, “Don't celebrate the Prophet's birthday,” as they have their own ideas. But Sayyidina Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (q) observed the birthday of Prophet (s) year after year, as that was how it was in that time. Although he was a big scholar, he had doubts (mutashakkik). It was Monday, 12 Rabi` al-Awwal and he was writing something important which, at that time, was necessary to get it out immediately. Suddenly, a black fly came and began to drink the ink from his pen, for which Imam Ghazali (q) stopped moving his hand as he didn’t want it to fly off. He said, “Allah (swt) created me from Ummat an-Nabi (s) for the sake of the Prophet (s) just as He created this fly for the sake of the Prophet (s), so I will keep it until it quenches its thirst.” That night inaayatullah was coming down on the 12th Rabi` al-Awwal, as not every year it coincides on a Monday.

Similarly for Hajj, you ask your shaykh whether you should go for Hajj this year or not and if he doesn’t give permission don’t go, as awliyaullah can see if the Manifestation of Allah (swt) will come on the hujjaj on `Arafat or not. If it is not, they tell you don’t go, and otherwise, they tell you to go. So you need to keep asking each year until you get permission and go. Don't stop asking, saying, “I’m not going as Shaykh is not giving permission.” Keep asking! How many times we asked your grandfather (Mawlana Shaykh Nazim) if we can we go for Hajj and he told us, “Go next year,” and when the next year comes, he says, “Next year,” and ‘next year’ comes, again he says, “Next year.” Then he says to others, “You go,” but for us he says, “Don’t go.” That is a test, but still you persist (in trying to go).

So the fly was quenching its thirst and Imam Ghazali (r) persisted in observing that night of 12th Rabi` al-Awwal that year when that tajalli came down and Allah (swt) opened all his spiritual powers. Similarly with people who apply for grants, they keep asking and asking, perhaps they ask non-stop for fifteen years, but they never get it until it opens suddenly! You are not dunya people, you are Akhirah people, and Allah gives when he sees you are patient. So persist in your du`a as Allah is happy with His Servant when He sees His Servant is persistant and keeps asking and asking!

Elements that Prevent Du`a from Being Accepted

Now we come to the issue of al-aafaat allatee tamna` athara ‘d-du`a, the various elements or things that forbid/prevent the du`a from being accepted.

1) Fa yastahsir wa yada` ad-du`a, the servant slows down in his asking:

People know the importance of making du`a, but they don’t know why their du`a is not accepted. Our obligation is to make du`a and it is not our duty to say that Allah accepted it or not. Just as you are obliged to pray Salaat azh-Zhuhr every day and cannot say, “I already prayed yesterday (so need to pray today),” your duty is to make du`a! The first thing that prevents du`a from being accepted is when the servant slows down or increases too much in asking: one day he asks too much and the next day he says, “I asked too much but Allah didn’t accept, so I will not ask again. Whenever He wants to give, He will give.” So he stops, and Allah (swt) doesn’t like that. Fa yastahsir wa yada` ad-du`a, he will drop the du`a and he will not continue. This is one of the elements that prevent your du`a from getting accepted. So your duty is to make du`a and it’s not your business if it is accepted or not, as Allah knows best!

An example of this is when someone plants seeds in his garden and begins watering them, then finally he gets tired and stops watering and taking care of his garden. What will happen? All his plants will die, they will finish! When the stem was about to come out, he stopped and left it. This is an example of a person who constantly makes du`as, but right when his du`a is about to reach its peak and get accepted, he stops. Shaytan whispers in your ear, “Why do you want to make du`a today?” But when you stop, that du`a is dead; it will no longer be accepted because you let Shaytan throw his seeds into your heart, destroying that nice plantation planted by divine du`as that Prophet (s) used to make! Shaytan throws in them something with a bad smell and destroys that whole du`a you were making!

2) Do not rush your du`a.

It was mentioned by Imam Abu Hurayrah (r) in Sahih Bukhari that the Prophet (s) said:

يُسْتَجَابُ لِأَحَدِكُمْ مَا لَمْ يُعَجِّلْ يَقُوْلُ دَعَوْتُ فَلَمْ يُسْتَجَابُ لِيْ

Yustajaabu li-ahadikum maa lam yu’ajjil yaqoolu da`awtu fa lam yustajaabu lee.

The du`a of any one of you will be answered so long as he is not impatient and says, ‘I made du`a but it was not answered.’”

Allah will accept your du`a if you are not trying to rush it! Keep reciting it every day with all your heart and don’t rush like those who rush to make a deadline and you see them writing their paper in the last moment, rushing and rushing, and they make many mistakes in rushing. Prophet (s) said, “Don't rush your du`a, keep doing it.”

Ajalla al-karamaat dawaam at-tawfeeq.

The best of miracles is the continuity of what you are doing.

When you rush you don't get anything! Allah will not give it to you, then you say, “I asked and my du`a was not accepted.” That is why it is recommended that when you need a du`a, go to those whom you know are sincere servants of Allah as they have been given authorization from their guides, like the Sahaabah (r) were given from Prophet (s): like aimmah given from Sahaabah (r) and like awliyaullah given from a’immah, so you go to them and they make du`a for you and you see that your du`a is completely accepted.

As narrated by Sayyidina Anas (r) in Musnad Ahmad, the Prophet (s) said:

فِي مُسْنَدِ أَحْمَدَ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَنَسٍ قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : لَا يَزَالُ الْعَبْدُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا لَمْ يَسْتَعْجِلْ ، قَالُوا : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ يَسْتَعْجِلُ ؟ قَالَ : يَقُولُ قَدْ دَعَوْتُ رَبِّي فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِبْ لِي .

Laa yazaal al-`abdu bi khayrin maa lam yasta`jil. Qaaloo ya Rasoolullahi kayfa yast`ajilu? Qaal: yaqoolu qad da`awtu rabbee falam yastajib lee

The servant is always in a good way as long as he does not rush. They asked: O Prophet of Allah, how does he rush? He (s) said, “He says, ‘I prayed to my Lord and He did not respond to me.’”

Allah (swt) doesn’t like people who rush their du`a, so keep making du`a but don't rush, as the Prophet (s) said:

وَفِي صَحِيحِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْهُ : لَا يَزَالُ يُسْتَجَابُ لِلْعَبْدِ ، مَا لَمْ يَدْعُ بِإِثْمٍ أَوْ قَطِيعَةِ رَحِمٍ ، مَا لَمْ يَسْتَعْجِلْ ، قِيلَ : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الِاسْتِعْجَالُ ؟ قَالَ يَقُولُ : قَدْ دَعَوْتُ ، وَقَدْ دَعَوْتُ ، فَلَمْ أَرَ يُسْتَجَابُ لِي ، فَيَسْتَحْسِرُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ وَيَدَعُ الدُّعَاءَ .

Laa yazaalu yustajaabu li’l-`abdi maa lam yadu` bi-ithmin aw qati`atee rahimin maa lam yasta`jal. faqeela: yaa rasoolullahi maa’l-isti`jaal? Qaala yaqoolu qad da`awtu wa qad da`awtu falam ara yastajaabu lee. Fa-yatahasir `inda dhalika wa yadau` ad-du`aa.

Allah rejects supplications if the worshipper is hasty or does not have patience. It was asked, "O Messenger of God! What does it mean to be hasty?" The Prophet (s) said, "A worshipper says, 'I have prayed and prayed, and I don't yet see that it will be accepted,” so he gives up hope of being answered and leaves making du`a.” (Hadith narrated by Muslim from Abu Hurayrah, as mentioned in Sahih al-Jami #7705)

So the Sahaabah (r) asked the Prophet (s), “What does it mean to rush?” and he replied, “When he says, ‘;I asked Allah but He didn’t respond!’ ” This means, he rushed for his du`a to be accepted. Don't rush! Whenever Allah wants, that is when He will accept your du`a.

Conditions for Du`a to Be Accepted

1) Focus Wholeheartedly on What You Are Asking and Correct Guidance Will Come

What are the conditions for du`a to be accepted? When you are making du`a, focus on the specific issue you are making du`a for. For example, “I’m making du`a to get healthy!” as many people today remember to make du`a only when they are sick. So do muraqabah and focus your thoughts and your heart on your sickness. Hudoor al-qalb wa jam`eeyatuhu bi kulliyatihi ma` al-matloob, during your du`a, make sure you are focusing on the issue that is before you. For example, if someone tells you, “I want my daughter/son to get married,” “I want my son to get good grades,” or “My son is applying for college,” try to focus well and bring your heart toward the du`a you need to recite in order for it to become a perfect medicine for that issue or sickness, and like giving medicine, you have to give the right one in order to treat the disease.

You have to go back to the previous three lectures in order to fully understand what we are saying. There are du`as the guide will guide you to that are perfect in fixing your problem. Not every du`a is going to have the same effect for your problem, as each du`a differs from one person to another. I will give an example, as I did previously with many other examples about cancer and conceiving a child, and so on. There is a lady in Texas whose name I will not mention, although I think many people here know her. Her daughter was trying to get into medical school for many years, and her test scores were always around 73 or 74 (not passing). Each time her mother came to me, I told her to let her daughter retake the test. I remember telling her to take it four times, which she did, and she kept getting 73 or 74--not enough to get accepted for residency. Finally, she came again last year and said, “My daughter is thinking of doing another specialty,” and I told her, “There is no harm if she takes the test again.” She retook the test and this time got an 80 (passed)! It’s not from me but from the barakah of our shaykh, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani (q). After many years of struggling, she got accepted in Boston. We pushed her to not give up and Allah accepted. If we had rushed and given up after the first year, saying, “O! It didn’t work out so you don't need to do that...” (the outcome would have changed). I was continuously pushing her to repeat and repeat, although she and her mother were fed up. She repeated it and got it! The du`a is what caused her to get that position and it’s from Allah (swt), no one else!

2) The Best Times to Make Du`a and Fulfilling What is Prescribed

There are times best for making du`a and if it coincides in one of these times, for sure your du`a will be accepted, and Allah (swt) accepts all du`as, as He said:

ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ

Id`oonee astajib lakum.

Supplicate to Me and I will give you! (Surat al-Mu’min, 40:60)

But ask! If you don’t get in dunya you might get it in the grave, where Allah will give you better than what you were asking. There are six times in which du`a is most accepted:

1) Ath-thuluth al-akheer min al-layl. The last third of the night before Salaat al-Fajr by two hours, which is the time of qiyam when everyone is sleeping. At that time you can focus well and meditate on what you are asking and the du`a you got from your guide. Sit at that time and do it, but don't say, “I did it” like some people, when we give them something to recite for forty days and they call us on the 39th day, saying “Should I continue or stop?” What is the issue if you continue? Continue! Why do you want to stop? Do it one time, two times, three times, four times, continue! Therefore, when you want to make a du`a in the last third of the night, do it continuously unless you are traveling, sick or with a guest.

2) Ba`d al-adhaan. When the adhaan is being called [adhaan sounds], like right now. May Allah (swt) give us long life to see Mahdi (a) and give shifaa` to us and to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q)! May He make everyone happy with their family,for those who just got married to be happy with their wives and those who are not married to get married and for everyone to be happy with their children, both in dunya and in Akhirah, and to be with Prophet (s)! Fatihah.

(We said) “adhaan” and the adhaan came! But we don't stop and say, “O! Since we did it on the right time, this is a karamah.” No, there is a wisdom here to show us that Allah (swt) wanted us to make a du`a at that exact moment when the adhaan was being called when we mentioned it, to show that perhaps there is a benefit in it.

3) Bayn al-adhaan wal-iqaamah. Between the adhaan and iqaamah, the time when you wait about five minutes after the calling of adhaan just before the iqaamah.

4) Adbaar as-salaat al-maktubaat. After the fard prayers. Any du`a you make at that time is also accepted.

5) Wa `inda su`oodil imaam yawmi ‘l-jum`ah `ala ‘l-mimbar hatta taqdi as-salaat min dhaalika ‘l-yawm. On Friday when the imaam goes up on the minbar to give his khutbah. Make du`a through your heart, but not by holding beads in your hand since khutbah is considered to be part of prayer and holding beads is not accepted at that time. So make du`a through your heart and think about it until the khutbah and the prayer is finished.

6) Wa aakhiru sa`atin ba`ad al-`asr. The last hour after Salaat al-`Asr, one hour before Maghrib.

Finally, the one thing all of these times have in common is khushu`, sincerity in the heart, which means to focus well on your du`a despite the whispers. The best du`a in these six times is the du`a made from a broken heart, in a state of helplessness and weakness, in-between the Hands of Allah, as you are at His Door. In order for your du`a to be accepted, turn toward your Lord in humility, face the qiblah, and ask Him!

Inshaa-Allah, we will continue later. May Allah forgive us and bless us.

Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq.

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Kapan Waktu Isyraq?

pertanyaan - 2012/01/17 14:02Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh
Semoga habib sekeluarga dan seluruh jama'ah MR selalu di rahmati Allah swt
2. Kapan waktu isyraq berakhir? Berapa lama jaraknya?
3. Apa boleh shalat isyraq pada waktu dhuha? Demikian sebaliknya? Jawaban Habib Munzir - 2012/01/18 17:17
Alaikumsalam warahmatullah wabarakatuh,
kebahagiaan dan Kesejukan Rahmat Nya semoga selalu menaungi hari hari anda,
Saudaraku yg kumuliakan,

2. shalat isyraq dilakukan pd pagi hari, mulai waktunya adalah jika untuk di indonesia adalah 1.45 menit setelah adzan subuh. sebagian ulama mengatakan shalat isyraq adalah shalat dhuha, namun sebagian mengatakan shalat dhuha berbeda dg shalat isyraq
mengenai jumlahnya boleh 2 rakaat boleh 4 rakat sebagian pendapat boleh 8 rakaat, namun yg mengatakan 8 rakaat adalah yg berpendapat bahwa shalat isyraq sama dg shalat dhuha.
shalat isyraq dilakukan 4 rakaat dg satu tahiyat dan satu salam, atau 4 rakaat dg dua tahiyat dan dua salam, disunnahkan pada rakaat pertama membaca addhuha dan al al insyirah, dan rakaat ketiga dan keempat adalah alkafirun dan al ikhlas, riwayat lain adalah surat assyams dan allail, lalu rakaat ketiga dan keempat surat addhuha dan al al insyirah.
namun bagi yg melakukannya 4 rakaat dg 1 tahiyat dan 1 salam maka hanya membaca surat pd rakaat 1 dan 2, sedangkan rakaat lainnya hanya fatihah saja.
3. boleh jika ia mengambil pendapat yg menyamakan antara isyraq dan dhuha

Wallahu a'lam

Sholat Sunnah Israq (1)

Solat Sunat Isyraq dilakukan sebagai tanda syukur kepada Allah SWT kerana menganugerahkan pada hamba-Nya sehari lagi mengecapi alam ini walaupun dalam hari-hari berlalu kita banyak melakukan dosa.

Solat Sunat Isyraq dua rakaat ini dikerjakan selepas waktu Syuruk iaitu setelah matahari naik anggaran setengah galah (4 hasta atau 1.5 meter), lebih tepatnya kira-kira 12 minit setelah terbit matahari.

Diberi tempoh jarak masa sebegini sejak waktu Syuruk (terbit matahari) adalah supaya ia tidak menyamai orang yang menyembah matahari. Waktu ini juga adalah haram untuk melakukan sebarang solat kerana tanduk syaitan berada di antara matahari.

Dari Abdullah bin ‘Umar r.a.,katanya Rasulullah shallallahu’ alaihi wa sallam bersabda: “Waktu Subuh adalah sejak terbit fajar hingga terbit matahari. Apabila matahari terbit, berhentilah solat kerana dia terbit antara dua tanduk syaitan.” (Hadis Riwayat, Muslim r.a.)

Tempoh masa Solat Sunat Isyraq adalah sangat singkat iaitu 15 minit sahaja (12 minit – 27 minit setelah Syuruk), bersamaan sehingga masuk waktu Dhuha. Oleh itu wajarlah seseorang itu berikhtikaf sebentar selepas solat jemaah Subuh dengan berzikir dan membaca al-Quran sementara menunggu tibanya waktu Isyraq agar tidak terlepas memperolehi fadhilat besarnya.

Keutamaan Solat Isyraq

Dari Anas bin Malik radhiyallahu ‘anhu dia berkata, Rasulullah shallallahu’ alaihi wa sallam bersabda:

مَنْ صَلَّى الْغَدَاةَ فِى جَمَاعَةٍ ثُمَّ قَعَدَ يَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ كَانَتْ لَهُ كَأَجْرِ حَجَّةٍ وَعُمْرَةٍ تَامَّةٍ تَامَّةٍ تَامَّةٍ

“Sesiapa solat Subuh berjemaah, kemudian duduk berzikir kepada Allah sehingga naik matahari dan mengerjakan solat dua rakaat (Solat Sunat Isyraq). Maka adalah baginya pahala seperti pahala Haji dan Umrah yang sempurna, sempurna, sempurna.” (Hadis Riwayat, At-Tirmidzi dan , ath-Thabrani r.a.)

Betapa besarnya keutamaan duduk/menetap di tempat solat sesudah Solat Fardhu Subuh berjemaah untuk berzikir kepada Allah SWT sehingga matahari terbit, kemudian itu melakukan solat dua rakaat, sebagaimana ditunjukkan pada hadis agung di atas yang terdapat dalam kitab ‘Tuhfatul ahwadzi’ dan ‘at-Targhib wat tarhib’.

Keterangan Hadis

Keterangan lanjut tentang hadis di atas:

Dalam kitab ‘Bughyatul Mutathawwi’ mencatatkan solat dua rakaat ini sebagai Solat Isyraq (terbitnya matahari) oleh Ibnu Abbas yang waktunya di awal waktu (sebelum) solat dhuha.

Dalam kitab ‘Tuhfatul Ahwadzi’ “… sampai matahari terbit“. diistilah sebagai sehingga matahari terbit dan agak naik setinggi satu tombak. Manakala Syaikh Muhammad bin Shaleh al-Utsaimin dalam “asy-Syarhul mumti’” menyatakan masanya sekitar 12-15 minit selepas matahari terbit kerana Rasulullah shallallahu’ alaihi wa sallam melarang melakukan solat ketika matahari terbit, terbenam dan ketika tegak di tengah-tengah langit. (HR Muslim)

Keutamaan dalam hadis ini lebih dikuatkan dengan perbuatan Nabi shallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam sendiri, dari Jabir bin Samurah radhiyallahu anhu: “Bahawa Rasulullah shallallahu’ alaihi wa sallam jika selesai melakukan solat subuh, beliau duduk (berzikir) di tempat beliau solat sampai matahari terbit dan meninggi.” (HR Muslim dan at-Tirmidzi)

Keutamaan dalam hadis ini adalah bagi orang yang berzikir kepada Allah SWT di masjid tempat dia bersolat sampai matahari terbit dan tidak bercakap atau melakukan hal-hal yang tidak termasuk zikir kecuali kalau wuduknya batal, maka dia boleh keluar masjid untuk berwuduk dan akan kembali ke masjid.

Maksud “berzikir kepada Allah” dalam hadis ini adalah umum, termasuk membaca al-Quran, membaca zikir di waktu pagi, mahupun zikir-zikir lain yang disyariatkan.

Dalam kitab ‘Tuhfatul Ahwadzi’, pengulangan kata “sempurna” dalam hadis ini adalah sebagai penguat dan penegas, dan bukan bererti mendapat tiga kali pahala haji dan umrah.

Makna “mendapatkan (pahala) seperti pahala haji dan umrah” adalah hanya dalam pahala dan balasan, dan bukan bererti orang yang telah melakukannya tidak wajib lagi untuk melaksanakan ibadah haji dan umrah jika dia mampu.

Cara Melakukan Solat Isyraq

1. Sebelum mendirikan solat Isyraq bacalah doa berikut: