| This includes evil in terms of maters that may affect us in the dunya e | |
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| To be recited once Brief Commentary• Deliver and measure the effectiveness of ads• After affirming the kingdom belonging to Allah, we mention what He does with it, and this is that He looks after it | This means we want Allah to open for us the doors of knowledge, to make things clearer in our heads, and to open all doors of goodness before us• The first type of good we ask Allah is the good in terms of the opening that we want to achieve |
This is due to the blessings Allah had placed on the former, and the lack of it in the latter• Improve the quality of our services and develop new ones• and more importantly, the good with regards to the hereafter e.
| Once we realise that Allah is the one who provides for us and looks after us in the general sense, we begin to ask Him for specific things that we want from this morning or evening• Hadith, reported Aby Dawud, hadith number 3453 | Beneficial knowledge and righteous actions are a light for a believer in this life and the hereafter, so when we are asking Allah for the light of this day, we are asking Him to allow us to increase in beneficial knowledge, and in performing righteous actions• True kingdom belongs to Allah alone |
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| O Allah, I ask You for the goodness of this day, its opening, its victory, its light, its blessings, and its guidance | Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah used to prostrate to Allah and sincerely ask Him to clarify the situation for him whenever he is presented with a matter that he struggles to resolve• All the leaders and kings in this life all fall within the kingdom and dominion of Allah, so always realise you have the greatest King by your side• When we say Allah is the Lord, we mean He is the one who looks after, nurtures and provides, therefore we should be grateful for Allah as He is the Lord of all that exists• We begin the supplication by affirming that the kingdom belongs to Allah, therefore He is the true King who has ownership over everything |
The knowledge of this increases the veneration we have for Allah• Someone may sleep for 4 hours and feel very refreshed and energetic for the remainder of the day, whereas someone may sleep for over 8 hours, yet does not have much energy during the day.