Dua for protection from Minor Shirk
“Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique has narrated that Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said : ‘Shirk in my Ummah is much more hidden than the pace of an ant crawling upon a black stone.’ Shirk is very hidden. It enters the heart very silently and very few are saved from it. Upon hearing this, Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique asked : ‘How can one be saved from it?’ Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: ‘ Should I not show you such a supplication (dua) that if you recite it, you will be free from minor and major shirk.’ Hazrat Abu Bakr requested him to do so. Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) instructed him to say : ‘Allahumma innee a’oozu bika min an ushrika bika shay-a`w wa-ana a’alam wa-astaghfiruka limaa laa a’alam.’ ‘O Allah, I seek protection in You from that I ascribe partners to You knowingly and I seek forgiveness from You for those things which I do not know.’ Minor Shirk is the doing of good actions for show, name, fame or recognition”
Dua for Immediate Wilayat
“O Allah, bless us all with Aml, Ikhlaas and Maqbooliyat. O Allah, forgive us our past sins and give us the courage to restrain ourselves from indulging in any form of disobedience to You in future. O Allah, bless us with the purification of our hearts, from greed, pride, malice, insincerity, show, anger, envy and jealousy. O Allah, bless us all with the best of Dunya And Aakhirat. O Allah, fill our hearts with Your Love and the Love of Rasulullah O Allah, bless us with such a bond with You that nafs and Shaytaan cannot distance us from You. O Allah, protect us, as well as the entire Ummah, from all the fitnahs that are lashing at us from all sides O Allah, forgive all those who have passed away. And when our time of death arrives, then let it be in a state of Imaan, and at a time when You are pleased with us. O Allah, we ask of You all the goodness which had been asked for by Your Messenger, Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم; and we seek Your protection from all evil things from which Your Messenger, Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم had asked protection from; Only You are capable of helping us.” (Aameen)
The Du’a of the Auliya Allah
“Maulana Jalaluddeen Rumi (Rahmatullah ‘alaih) has very beautifully described the duas and tears of his great Shaykh, Hazrat Shamsuddeen Tabrezi (Rahmatullah ‘alaih) in his acclaimed composition, The Mathnavi. He says therein: “…Listen to the tears of the Auliya Allah. When my Spiritual guide, Hazrat Shamsuddeen Tabrezi cries, the effect of his sincerity and his pain causes the very heavens to also cry. And when my Shaykh cries out of his Great Divine Love, the very heavenly bodies tremble and shake. And our Shams Tabrezi prays in such humility and with such earnestness that the grace of Allah comes towards such a broken heart which lays its complaints before Him, and grants it the honour of Divine acceptance.” Dear reader, if you have had the privilege of listening to the Du’aa of Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb (Daamat Barakaatuhum), you too will attest to the above description of Maulana Jalaluddeen Rumi (Rahmatullah ‘alaih). The same will be said. The following Du’aa of Hazrat Maulana should be made to Allah Ta’ala in the heart-rending, inspiring, and affecting manner that it should be read for it to be truly appreciated. (Compiler)
Dua of Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb
“All Praise is due to Allah Ta’ala, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful. Salaat and Salaam be upon our beloved Master, the Rasul and Beloved of Allah Ta’ala, the Seal of all Prophets and Mercy unto the Worlds – Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. O Allah, bestow mercy and blessings upon our beloved Rasul, Sayyedena Muhammad and upon his family, his companions, his children, his wives, his offspring, his followers and everyone from amongst his Ummat. O Most Merciful of all those who show mercy. O the Helper of those who ask for help. O our Sustainer, who is most Generous. O The Most Forgiving. O Ever-living and Ever-Sustaining, we beseech You for help, through Your Mercy. There is none worthy of worship besides Allah, the Most Tolerant, Most Generous. Glory be to Allah, Lord of the Great Throne (Arsh). All praise is due to Allah, the Sustainer of the worlds. O Allah, we do seek all causes of the grant of Your Mercy and (we do seek) actions which will make certain Your Forgiveness, a full share of virtuous deeds and complete safety from sin. O Allah, let not a single sin of ours be left out from being forgiven; remove all our worries, and fulfil every need of ours which conforms to Your pleasure, O Most Merciful of all those who show Mercy. O Our Sustainer, we have wronged our souls. If You do not forgive us and bestow upon us Your Mercy, then we shall certainly be from amongst the losers. O Allah, forgive our sins. O Allah, overlook our sins. O Allah, conceal our sins. O my Allah, how loving You are; how caring You are; how beautiful You are O my beloved Allah, O my Raheem Allah, O my Kareem Allah, O my Haleem Allah, O my Most Forgiving Allah, O my Most Loving, Caring Allah, O my most Compassionate Allah’ ‘O Allah, we are unable to praise You as we should. You are as You have praised Yourself. O Allah, You dearly love the forgiveness of the sins of the sinners when they turn towards You in repentance. O my beloved Allah, we are extending these hands of ours. ‘O my Allah, they are the begging bowls which You have attached to our bodies, so that we may extend them before You during any part of the day and night, and seek from You. O Allah, we are extending our begging bowls before You. O Allah, we are not extending these hands before an idol which cannot see, which cannot hear and which cannot avail us in anything. O Allah, our hands are extended before You, and You are All Seeing, All Hearing, All Knowing, All-Powerful O Allah, You are the One who responds to the duas of Your servants”
Dua for Blessings and Bounties
“ O Allah, bless us all with long life so that we may accumulate the maximum amount of good deeds. O Allah, bless us with good health; bless us with prosperity; bless us with happiness; bless us with contentment; bless us with zuhd , with sabr and shukr; bless us with a life of Taqwa; bless us with Your Ma’rifat, bless us with Your Yaqeen’ O Allah, bless us with Your Muhabbat and the Muhabbat of Rasulullah (SAW). O Allah, bless us with Istiqaamat. Bless us with steadfastness in our Imaan. O Controller of hearts, make our hearts firm on Your Deen. O Allah, bless us with solid Imaan. Bless us with the taufeeq of A’maal-e-Sawleha, of righteous deeds. O Allah, bless us with the Ittiba of Rasulullah. O Allah, grant us the taufeeq of following the Sunnats of Rasulullah (SAW). O Allah, bless us with the best of Dunya and the best of Aakhirah. O Allah, give us such a bond with You that nafs and Shaytaan cannot distance us from You. O Allah, make us the fish that swim deep down in the ocean of Your Ma’rifat. O Allah, grant us such love for You, that we place You before everyone and everything else.”
Dua for Freedom from Debts
“ O my Kareem Allah, remove the problems of those who are in financial difficulties. O Allah, all those who are in debts, provide for them plentiful of Halaal rizq so that they may get themselves out of their debts. O Allah, ‘Why should we go towards Haraam, when there is no shortage of Your Treasures of Halaal’? O Allah, You are our Provider; You are our Sustainer. O Allah, You provide for the birds; You provide for the fish deep down in the oceans; You provide for the animals in the jungles and You provide for us also’ O Allah, then why should we steal? ‘Why should we get involved in fraud and embezzlement? ‘Why should we borrow from banks on interest ? O Allah, our homes are on interest; our carpets are on interest; our cars are on interest; our clothing is on interest; our shoes are on interest’ O my Allah, where can Rahmat then descend? O my beloved Allah, give us that realization that Rahmat cannot come until we get rid of Haraam from our lives. O my Allah, bless us with plenty of Halaal rizq and sustenance, and get us out of all debts we may be in. O Allah, grant us barkat in our rizq and provide for us from sources unknown to us.”
Dua against Fitnahs
“ O Allah, fitnahs are lashing us ‘ from our right, from our left, from behind us and from in front of us; from the satellites above us. O my beloved Allah, protect us from the storms of fitnahs. O Allah, protect us from the fitnahs of this world and the next. O my beloved Allah, where do we go ? ‘If You do not protect us and save us, who else is there for us ? O Allah, to whom do we turn ? ‘Who is there for us beside You? O Allah, the fitnahs have entered our homes; the fitnahs have entered our schools and colleges; the fitnahs have entered our Muslim schools; the fitnahs have entered our bazaars and market places; the fitnahs have entered our Madaaris and Masaajid ; the fitnahs have entered the Haramain Sharifain’ O my Allah, we can hear cell phones, with musical tones even in front of the Raudha Mubarak of Nabi , and in front of the Ka’batullah’ O Allah, filthy music can be heard a few metres away from the Raudha of my beloved Rasul e ‘just a few metres from the mubarak Dome of my beloved Rasul’s e resting-place’ O Allah, protect Makkah Sharif and Madina Sharif from all fitnahs. O Allah, protect Musjid-e-Aqsa”
Dua for the Guidance for Children
“ O Allah, there are so many parents complaining that their children have become a curse for them – their children are in drugs, drink and all kinds of vices. O my Allah, children are back-answering and neglecting their parents. ‘Children are murdering their parents; strangling their parents; kicking their parents’ O my beloved Allah, have mercy upon us. O Allah, give us the realization that we are the cause of their destruction. O Allah, we are the ones providing them with those sources which lead to Haraam. O Allah, we brought the evil television into our homes; we bring the filthy movies into our homes; we bring the filthy magazines and filthy literature into our homes. We give them everything that leads them to vice dens. ‘We do not give them Deen. We do not give them the Majaalis of the Ahlullah (Friends of Allah Ta’ala). We do not give them the Majaalis of the pious and the righteous. We do not let them sit in the Majaalis of Nasihat, Da’wat and Ta’leem. O Allah, give us this understanding’ O Allah, those parents whose children have landed in sins, and they are involved in drugs, drink, zina and other evils, bless them with the taufeeq of sincere taubah and repentance. O my beloved Allah, guide all those children back onto Siratul Mustaqeem . ‘O Allah, nothing is difficult for You. O Allah, make our youth, assets for our community”
Dua for Death and the Hereafter
“ O Allah, we know how sinful we are. ‘O Allah, do not expose our sins. O Allah, Out of Your Fadhl , Ihsaan and Rahmat, You have concealed so many of our sins. ‘O Allah, don’t bring upon us any kind of disgrace, in this world, in the Qabr and in the Aakhirah. O Allah, what an embarrassment that will be, on the Day of Qiyaamat, when, in front of billions, someone will rise committing zina, someone will rise stealing’ because a person will die as he lived, and he will rise, on the Day of Qiyaamat, as he died O Allah, then billions of ummaties will watch and will be witness to our sins. O Allah, what embarrassment to Rasulullah (SAW) when his ummaties will rise in the condition of sin. O Allah, on the Day of Qiyaamah, do not let us be an embarrassment to my beloved Rasul e. O Allah, what has become of the Ummat’? O Allah, the followers of Rasulullah (SAW) used to die on the plains of Jihaad , they used to die while reciting the Qur`aan Sharif, or when reading the TahajjudSalaah, or in Awwabeen and Chaast, or when making Your Zikr (Praise of Allah Ta’ala) and Ibaadat, or in a state that was not displeasing to You and Your Rasul e ‘ ‘O Allah, his true followers never died in Haraam places. O Allah, now so many are dying in Haraam places. O Allah, give us the realization that death can strike suddenly – anywhere, anytime, any place’ O Allah, we have to face You. We have to stand before You; we have to answer for our deeds and actions. O my Allah, ‘when a person is arrested, he covers his face. When he is being led to the court, he covers his face. He does not want human beings to see his face’ O my Allah, sinful ones like us, criminals like us’ O Allah, on the Day of Qiyaamah, in front of billions of other Ummaties, don’t cause any embarrassment and shame to come upon us. O Allah, we brag about our sins. Our men advertise their sins. Our women advertise their sins. Shame and Hayaa has left us. Hayaa has left our women and our children’ O Allah, we don’t feel the slightest shame that pictures of our men and women appear in newspapers ‘ at cinemas, in clubs, casinos and at other Haraam places and functions’ O Allah, if Nabi had to be living amongst us and was shown such pictures, what would he have thought of us ? O Allah, give us the taufeeq to realize that sins should create shame, regret and remorse in our hearts’ O Allah, one day we have to die and leave this world. O Allah, don’t let our death be in any kind of sin. O Allah, we don’t know where, and when and how we are going to die; then how can we be engaged in sins ? O Allah, Don’t let the angel of death visit anyone of us when we are popping drugs into our mouths, or when we have a bottle of liquor in our hands, or when we are in a casino or an escourt agency, or in adultery and fornication, or watching some filthy movie or reading a filthy novel or magazine.’ O Allah, what kind of embarrassment and shame our families will have to suffer, and the Ummat will have to suffer. ‘As it is, so many deaths are taking place in escort agencies, in prostitute quarters’ O Allah, so many deaths are taking place in discos, cinemas, theatres and other Haraam venues. O my Allah, protect us. O my Allah, our souls will be extracted from every part of our bodies. ‘Dust and sand will be thrown over us. ‘We will be left alone. ‘After we are conveyed to our graves, we will journey alone. The only thing that will be the light of our graves will be A’maal-e-Sawleha . O Allah, the gardens of Jannat (Heaven in Urdu) will be made available for us if we have pleased You. O Allah, make our graves, gardens from the gardens of Jannat (Heaven in Urdu). O Allah, do not let our graves be pits from the fire of Hell. O Allah, we have got no capital of good deeds. O Allah, we have not built our home of the Aakhirat. O my Allah, give us the taufeeq of doing that which is pleasing to You. O Allah, before we leave this world, give us the taufeeq of sincere taubah. O Allah, we read and learn the masaa`il of mayyit . We learn the masaa`il of ghusl and kafan . We have given ghusl and kafan to so many. We have seen the Janazas of so many. We have shouldered so many Janazas. We have buried so many with our own hands. We have seen our parents, our family members, our brothers and sisters of the Ummat leave, but it does not create any stir in our hearts. O Allah, we have to go the same way. ‘Our homes will remain behind; our buildings and businesses will remain, our beautiful cars will remain; our wives and children will remain’ O Allah, our clothes will be removed from our bodies. ‘If they were tight fitting, then scissors will be used to cut through those clothes. ‘Rings will be removed from fingers. Watches and even false teeth will be removed’ O Allah, our tongues which cause so much of pain and injury to people will be silenced. O Allah, our hands which cause so much of pain and injury will move no more. O Allah, our feet will move no more. O Allah, those eyes which enjoyed the filthy films, the filthy magazines, the filthy novels and the filthy porn sites on the Internet, will be able to see no more. Then those eyes will see the angels. O my Allah, if we spent our
Dua for Forgiveness of our Ingratitude
“ O Allah, that Ummat, for whom so many sacrifices were made; today that Ummat is found in discos, in cinemas, in theatres, in casinos, on porn sites, reading filthy magazines and novels, watching porn movies, in adultery and fornication, in theft, in fraud, in rape and in other crimes. O Allah, a large number from the Ummah do not have Salaah in their lives; a large number do not have Zakaat, fasting and Haj in their lives. O Allah, the beautiful cultural lifestyle that Rasulullah (SAW) left for us, has been forsaken by us and by our family members. O Allah, Nabi’s e teachings are no where to be seen in our homes, in our businesses and in our dealings with people. O Allah, when our Nabi is informed, that : ‘That Ummat for whom so much of your blood was shed; that Ummat for whom you cried so much, ‘that Ummat has no concern for your blood and your tears” O Allah, then how much of pain and injury we must be causing to Your Beloved Nabi ‘ O Allah, even in his mubarak city, we do not give up sins. Just a few metres from the resting-place of Rasulullah (SAW), in hotels and homes, the filthiest of films can be viewed, the filthiest magazines and newspapers can be read’ O Allah, just a few metres from his Raudha Mubarak and a few metres from the Ka’batullah, in the foyers and rooms of hotels and in homes, the filthiest music can be heard, and the filthiest television programmes can be watched’. O Allah, those very things which were hated in his sight, those very things which he disliked and abhorred, those are the things which have become beloved in our sight’ O my beloved Allah, the cause of Rasulullah’s e pain and injury in his time were the Mushrikeen, the Yahud and the Munafiqeen. O Allah, but today, we, who are the claimants of Your Ishq and the Ishq of Rasulullah (SAW), are the cause of pain and injury to my Beloved Rasul e. O Allah, that Ummat for whom Rasulullah (SAW) shed so much of his blood, for whom the blood of the Sahabah was shed, that Ummat for whom so many sacrifices were made’ O Allah, that Ummat has become ‘Yateem’. ‘There is no one to pass a hand of affection and love over their heads anymore. Even the Muslims are unconcerned about the plight of so many brothers and sisters around the world ‘ in Kashmir, in Palestine, in Afghanistan, in Chechniya, in Kosova, in Bosnia, in Iraq and in India.”