Invocations to
Allah- XVIII
O
Allah! You were with us (or: You were working on our behalf – for our own
benefit) before We were with ourselves; also, be with us since we are, as You
were before we were! Put on us the clothes of Your Benevolence (Lutfika) and
Your Majesty (Janaabika). Bring out the darkness of self-will from
our hearts and let shine in our secret (Sirr) the light of
surrender (to You)!
Make
us contemplate the merits of Your choices so that what You require and that You
choose for us becomes more dear to us than the choices we could make for
ourselves.
O
Allah! May Your guarantees not distract us from what You have commanded us or
from what You require! You have invited us to submit to You and to stand
constantly in Your presence: yet we are incapable of all this, unless You give
us the strength to do so; If You do not strengthen us, we will be too weak [to
access Your desire].
What
could we be, without you having previously formed us? What could we achieve
without You getting us there? How would we have the strength to do anything
without Your assistance? So facilitate for us what You have ordered us to do,
and help us to avoid what You want to keep us away from.
O Allah! Lead us into the Gardens of Abandonment (Riyad-al-Tafwid) and Paradise of Submission (Jannaat al-Taslim).
Make
us enjoy [their bliss] - but may our interior (our secret, Sirr)
abide with You and not with their delights and their pleasures! Make our bliss
be in You, and not in the beauty and amenity [of these gardens]. O my God!
Illuminate us with the lights of submission to You, of eagerness to You, which
will bring joy to our interior and complete our lights.
O
Allah! You have already governed everything before its very existence. We know
that only what You will happens, but this knowledge is only beneficial to us to
the extent that You want it to. Send us back filled with Your blessings, raise
our dignity by an effect of Your Grace! Make us objects of Your concern and
surround us with Your care! Put on us the finery of those who benefit from Your
friendship (Wilaayatika) and place us under Your protection
because You are Omnipotent!
O
Allah! We know very well that one cannot oppose Your decision, nor reject Your
decree. Being unable to reject Your decree or anything You have sealed, we ask
for Your benevolence, even within Your decree, and Your support through the
events that You bring to their conclusion. In all this, put us among those who
are the object of Your concern, O Lord of the worlds!
O
Allah! You have already given us a portion of subsistence, which You will send
to us [no matter what]. So allow it to reach us in peace, preserving us from
fatigue and protecting us with its veil; May we remain bathed in the lights of
union, and see our sustenance as one of Your blessings, so that we may be
grateful to You, ascribing this blessing to You to the exclusion of everyone else
in this world! O my God, our earthly and heavenly sustenance is in Your hands.
Grant us the one that You know will benefit us, and which will only bring us
benefits.
O
Allah! Include us among those who have chosen You and not those who choose
against You, those who abandon themselves to You and not those who oppose You!
My God, give us; we need You so much! We are unable to obey You; grant us
therefore the strength, by rendering us powerless to disobey You, [make us]
subject to Your sovereignty, patient towards the decisions of Your Divinity,
proud of our belonging to You (Intisaab), and [grant us] the
tranquillity [rest] of our hearts, because of the trust we place in You!
Include
us among those who have entered the realm of divine satisfaction, who have
breathed the breath of submission, gathered the fruits of divine knowledge; who
have put on the clothes of the elite, conquered the treasure of proximity, and
to whom the presence of Your Love has been opened - so that they are constantly
at Your service, that they have realized knowledge, that they have conformed to
the Messenger of God (pbuh), inheriting from him, fulfilling themselves through
him and replacing him as “lieutenants” [within their
entourage]. Close for us [this life] with a good from You, O Lord of the
worlds!
O
Allah! Put hope in You in my heart and take my hope away from someone other
than You, so that I no longer have any hope for anyone except You.
O
Allah! Where neither my desire nor request could reach, nor the words could
come on my tongue; among the degrees of certainty that You have been able to
grant to every believer, among the first and the last human beings, O Allah!
Grant them to me in particular, O Most Merciful of the merciful. [Ameen].
These duahs were
revealed to me during the lockdown, on April 13, 2020 when I was having
difficulty meeting expenses, Alhamdulillah, Summa Alhamdulillah,
Allah (swt) revealed these duahs to me and I recited them
during one week. Before Ramadan, the problem was solved.
Praise
be to Allah Who does not forget the one who thinks of Him and Who does not
forget the one who implores Him.
On
April 27, 2020 at 2.55pm (3rd day of fasting and 4th Tarawee),
Allah (swt) revealed to me this duah in Farsi (Persian): Khuda wanda maksoude mane touï wa razae
tu, Mohabbat wa maarefat, zawk wa shawk khoud badéh. [O Allah! You are my only goal.
Grant me Your contentment, Your Mohabbat (love) and Your Maarefat (Intuitive
knowledge), Your flavour, Your passion.]
There
is a disciple who was in pain and had asked me for some duahs which
he could read for this disease which gave him so much suffering. I did a lot
of duahs for him for several weeks, and on Tuesday April 21,
2020 at 5.30pm, Allah (swt) revealed these duahs to me:
One
should recite Surah Al-Fatiha (3 times) known as “Sura-tus-Shifa” and
read:
“Ya
Razzaaqu Zul Quwwatil Mateen” (7 times)
“Yaa
Daafi’al Baliyaat idfa haazal bala-a. Ya Shaafi-al amraade ishfi haazal mard.” (3 times)
I
end here with this verse from the Quran. Allah (swt) says, “He did not place two hearts in a man’s
chest.”
I
comment a little on this verse: The
Incomparable Majesty who conferred on You the benefit of existence has placed
in you only one heart so that with it you will love God alone, and that you
renounce everything else and consecrate yourself only to Him, not dividing your
heart.
In
a divinely inspired saying [Hadith] - Hadith-e-Qudsi,
Allah (swt) declares: “I
was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known. That is why I created the
universe.”
For lack of time, I stop here for today; and next Friday I will continue my sermon on the “revealed duahs”, Insha-Allah, Ameen, Summa Ameen.
--- Friday Sermon of 06 November 2020~20 Rabi’ul Awwal 1442 AH delivered by Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam Hazrat Khalifatullah Munir A. Azim (aba) of Mauritius.