NEVER SAY THIS ONE WORD IN YOUR DUA | Omer Suleiman

May Allah forgive you insha Allah. Actually, no, it's may Allah forgive you. You see, when it comes to

the things that we intend to do, we say insha Allah only if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wills.

But when you're making dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, especially for something that you know

is good, there are no ifs in insha Allah's. It's simply, oh Allah, give it to me and you ask Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala with full certainty. You're asking a Lord who told you that he loves to forgive.

So don't say, forgive me insha Allah. You're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who told you that he

guides those who seek it. So don't say, guide me insha Allah. Say, oh Allah, forgive me. Say,

oh Allah, guide me. Say, oh Allah, give me. Unlike istihara, there is no need to put a conditional

if with something that you know you should be asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for.

In fact, subhanallah, think about it. 17 times a day, we say,

guide us to the straight path. Not please guide us to the straight path, if you will.

Guide us to the straight path, oh Allah, with a sense of dependence but also a sense of

insistence. And the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,

The prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, none of you should say, oh Allah, forgive me

if you wish or bestow your mercy upon me if you wish or provide for me if you wish.

But instead, he should be firm in his request. And he said subhanallah in one narration,

that let one ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with great hope, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

does not think that anything that he gives is too great to give his servants. And he said,

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that verily he already does what he wills and no one can force

anything upon him. Subhanallah, there is a lot that's actually implied in this. And the

Qadi Ayah, the Rahim of Allah, he says that just like it would be bad adab to not say in

sha'Allah when you say that I'm going to do something, say I will do something in sha'Allah,

it's also bad adab to put in sha'Allah in du'a for two reasons. He says the first one is that

it's totally unnecessary because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala already will do what he wills. And you

are implying that there may be some sort of hesitation from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or lack of

an ability to carry out that decree or to carry out that du'a. The second reason he says is

actually a sense of self-sufficiency. He says that when a person says in sha'Allah if you will,

that it implies that you have some sort of independence from Allah's decree, meaning you're saying

that you can technically do without the thing that you're asking for. But O Allah, if you will,

can you also give this to me? And he's saying instead when you call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with desperation. You are begging for it and you are determined to

get the answer. So there is no contradiction between the brokenness and the vulnerability that we

approach our du'a with and the conviction and the certainty that we have that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

will answer that du'a. And that is the saying of the Prophet ﷺ that Allah has said

an'a inda dan ni abdibi wa an'a ma'ahu iida da'ani that I am what my slave thinks of me and I am

with him when he calls upon me. And so in the Hadith kutsi Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ties a good

opinion of him with certainty in du'a when you call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And you know,

there's a question that comes up especially when we're talking about istikhara. Okay, what point

is my istikhara not bearing fruit anymore? At what point do I move on? And the reality is,

the Prophet ﷺ said, call upon Allah while you are certain, every single du'a has a certain yield.

So long as a person is certain in the one who's granting that yield. And so if you made istikhara

for something a hundred times and the answer was actually rejection, it's merely rejection of the

way that you thought it would be best to manifest itself. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could have

raised you a hundred or a thousand or a million ranks in jannah by that istikhara while also giving

you something better in its place. So there is no such thing as a fruitless du'a and a person should

not have a sense of hesitation when they approach their du'a and say, maybe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

is getting tired of hearing me say this du'a over and over again and someone's saying, wait a minute,

you know, do you hear what you're saying? Yes, even the Prophet ﷺ said,

in the Allah the Almighty, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not tire of forgiving you until you

tire of seeking his forgiveness. Allah, as the Wajal, does not tire of answering you until you tire

of asking him. And so you should never think that, you know, maybe I've asked Allah subhanahu

ta'ala too many times for something or maybe at this point I should tone down my du'a, you should

elevate your du'a, you should raise your du'a, you should have confidence in your du'a.

The confidence is not that the outcome will be as you wanted it to be. The confidence is that Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you the best outcome based upon his knowledge, his wisdom, his power.

And with that, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah for all of the times, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rejected

what I wanted from my du'a and gave me something so much better in its place even if I did not make

the connection with those two things. And then there's another thing that the scholars mention

that sometimes a person approaches du'a with this hesitation because they think maybe I'm too

sinful, like maybe the reason why my du'a's are not manifesting in the way that I wanted them to

manifest is because, you know, I'm struggling with this and I'm struggling with that, you have all

these great Muslims that are calling upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so there's an element of

hesitation like, oh Allah, if you will, oh Allah, if you want, oh Allah, I know I don't deserve it.

And subhanAllah, all of that is also a bad opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because Allah

does not need you to be perfect in order to answer you. Allah doesn't need you to be an angel to

answer you. And Adimam Sufyan, Ibn Ayyayin al-Rahim al-Hallah, he has probably one of the most

beautiful commentaries on this Hadith. He says, la yamna a'na a'na a'na a'na a'na a'na du'a'i

know one of you should ever find hesitation in their du'a because of something they know

about themselves. And he says, the du'a of the worst creation may Allah curse him, iblis, when iblis

said, when he said, oh my lord, grant me respite until the date of resurrection,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala immediately said fa'innaka min an-mundani that you are amongst those

who have been granted respite and that serves as a reminder that no one should feel unworthy

and no one should be hesitant when they call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as he is ever ready to

hear your sincere supplications, no matter what it is that you are asking him for, especially when

you're asking him for the things he told you to ask him for. Guidance, forgiveness, Allah subhanahu

ta'ala to be pleased with you. You have a lord who wants you to know that he is al-Rahman al-Rahim.

You think when you knock on the door of a al-Rahman al-Rahim, he says, no, I will not forgive you,

I will not show mercy to you. So the Prophet's life, and i'm saying, Udu'a Allah want to

muppin wa an-mundani jobah. Don't say insha'Allah, insha'Allah, o Allah, if you will,

o Allah, I know, o Allah, no, o Allah, give me this, o Allah, give me that. And even with your

worldly requests, you know, when Zakariya al-is-salam, and i want to play a scenario out for you,

Zakariya al-is-salam made that du'a and mazad al-Aqsa, and he was saying, I've never been

disappointed by you, o Allah, well, i'm not going to be du'a, i'm going to be shakariya. If Allah did

not give Zakariya al-is-salam a child, do you think Zakariya al-is-salam would have regretted

that du'a, do you think Zakariya al-is-salam would have said, well, i guess he just disappointed me.

No, he would have been pleased regardless, but that's the point. Your relationship with Allah

should be one in which you go to him always desperate yet confident, always trying to be better,

but not waiting to be better to ask him. And your brothers and sisters, we should do our best to

remove the barriers between us and Allah's panatah, so that we elevate the acceptance of our du'a

and our deeds, but at the same time, don't wait to be perfect when you are calling upon the one

who is perfect and who never required from you perfection in the first place.

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