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Prayers of the Pious is a collection of prayers and supplications from the Quran, the Sunnah, and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The prayers are organized into 30 chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of Islamic spirituality. There is a famous du ʿ ā’ where ʿUmar says: ‘O Allah! I ask you to be accepted as a martyr in your path, and let that martyrdom take place in the city of your Prophet’. For ʿUmar to think that he could be killed in Madinah is unusual, because the Prophet (peace be upon him) was obviously settled in Madinah and the Muslims were based in Madinah. So the idea of him being killed in the city of the Prophet (peace be upon him) by a Muslim was very unlikely. Indeed, when he used to make that du ʿ ā’ , his daughter asked him how he could die a martyr in Madinah, to which he replied that if Allah wanted it to happen, it would happen. That this man, who one day went out to kill the Prophet (peace be upon him) and became Muslim, would be killed in the city of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and be buried next to him, shows that you never know the ending of a person. ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) also made this du ʿ ā’ , ‘O Allah, do not let my killing be at the hand of someone who ever prostrated to You, lest he uses that against me on the Day of Judgement’. ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) did not want to be killed by a believer or anyone who had the semblance of righteousness. He didn’t want to be killed by someone shouting Allāhu akbar or lā ilāha illa Allāh. In fact, when ʿUmar was stabbed, he was leading the prayer in the Mosque of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , and the first question he asked was whether the person who stabbed him was a Muslim. When he learned that the killer was not a Muslim, he said Alhamdulillah that his ending didn’t come at the hands of a believer. It’s telling that ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) was so detached from this world and so attached to the gardens of Jannah that he had already included all of this in his supplication. He asked Allah (glorified and exalted is He) that he should die in the city of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , and the Prophet said whoever is sincere and asking for shahādah (martyrdom) could die a martyr even in their bed. So if a person sincerely asks for shahādah in his supplication, they will achieve martyrdom whatever the case and circumstance of their death might be. ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) also asked for shahādah in the Prophet’s city, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) had said, ‘whoever amongst you (the Muslims) can die in Madinah, let him do so’; meaning that spending as much time in Madinah longing for death there was possible because the Prophet (peace be upon him) said he would intercede for the one who has died in Madinah. Finally, in his care and love for this Ummah and his fear of having a believer contest him on the Day of Judgment, he asks Allah (glorified and exalted is He) that the person that kills him not be a believer, and Allah granted him all of those unlikely circumstances. He is buried right next to Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and the Prophet (peace be upon him) , so do not underestimate the power of Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , as nothing is impossible for the Most Merciful. The Prophet of Mercy: The Life and Teachings of Muhammad is a book that provides a comprehensive overview of the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. It is written in a clear and engaging style, and it is sure to interest Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In 2016 he was present at the shooting of police officers in Dallas and in the aftermath appealed for calm, togetherness and a different path for America - one of unity and peace. A Prayer Journal: This section is a blank journal for readers to record their prayers and supplications.

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O Allah, I was sincere to Your creation in public but cheated myself in private. Please excuse my disgrace because of my sincerity to Your creation. Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika min ṣabāḥi al-nāri wa-min masā’ihā, wa-lammā nazala bihī al-mawtu qāla: hādhihī ākhiru sāʿatin mina al-dunyā, allāhumma innaka taʿlamu annī uḥibbuka fa-bārik lī fī liqā’ika O Allah, I seek shelter with You from the mornings and evenings in the Hellfire. O Allah, this is my last hour in this world. You know that I certainly love You, so bless my meeting with You. When you look at the Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , you find a man by the name of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) , the secret keeper of the Prophet (peace be upon him) . He was the one with whom the Prophet (peace be upon him) entrusted the name of the hypocrites (munafiqun). Hudhayfah said that people used to ask the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the good things, like Jannah, and hopeful things, ‘but I used to ask him about evil and evil consequences so that I could avoid those things’. Hudhayfah used to make this du ʿ ā’ (supplication): ‘O Allah, I seek shelter with You from the mornings and evenings in the Hellfire’, meaning that he did not want to touch the Hellfire in any way whatsoever. He was afraid of punishment and he didn’t want to encounter it in any way. When Hudhayfah was about to die, he made this supplication, and one gets goosebumps just thinking about it. He said: ‘Oh, Allah. This is my last hour in this world. O Allah, You know that I certainly love You, so bless my meeting with You.’ How much love do you have to have for Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , and confidence in that love, as you’re departing from this world, that you can say, ‘You know how much I love You’. This is a test for all of us, and Imam Ahmad (may Allah be pleased with him) said that if you want to know your position before Allah, then look at His position with you. If you want to know how much God loves you then look at how much you love Him. For Hudhayfah to have that confidence, that connection with Allah, he is not just saying that he loves Him but that He knows how much he loves Him, is a very powerful testament to the type of relationship that he had with Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . Of course, in our situation the Prophet (peace be upon him) told us to say, ‘O Allah! I ask You for Your love, and for the love of those who love You and for the love of every action that would bring us closer to Your love.’ So asking Allah (glorified and exalted is He) for His love, asking Allah to love us, asking Allah for the love of those that are beloved to Him, asking Allah for the love of those that love Him, and asking Allah for the love of every action that brings us nearer to His love, all of this encompasses us at the end of the day because hope and fear are only the wings, but the love of Allah (glorified and exalted is He) is the body and the crux of the matter. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to die with certainty that we love Him and we’re beloved by Him, and may Allah make our reunion with Him on the Day of Judgement be a reunion of those that love one another. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to be gathered together in His love on the Day of Judgement. Āmīn . Introduction There is a great scholar by the name of Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti (may Allah be pleased with him) who once made a very profound comment. He said that people had reached a point in their ignorance of Allah that they don’t even call out to Him anymore; they don’t know how to have a personal conversation with God. If you think about what a personal du ʿ ā’ looks like, the word in Arabic is munājāt (intimate conversation), Allah (glorified and exalted is He) doesn’t care if it rhymes, or how it sounds, or even in what language you call out to Him. It doesn’t matter, what’s important is how sincere it is. Imam Ahmad (may Allah be pleased with him) was once asked, what is the distance between us and the throne of God? A pious prayer from a pure heart, was his reply, that’s how we connect to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) . When we look at the Prophetic prescriptions of prayers, the best prayers and the best supplications are the ones taught to us by the Qur’an, by the Divine revelation and by the Prophet (peace be upon him) , who encouraged the people around him to learn to call upon Allah (glorified and exalted is He) in a personal way. If you look at the Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , they are essentially a generation of yaqīn, of certainty; they are a generation of being connected to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) in their own unique ways. This book, Prayers of the Pious, developed out of a series of lessons that I recorded as part of the Yaqeen Institute during Ramadan in 2018. Each day, I took a prayer from one of our pious predecessors, mostly from the Companions, and taught how to call upon our Creator the same way that they called upon Him. By following this series on a daily basis each month, and by starting to record a personal du ʿ ā’ journal, writing down your own prayers following the same manner that the pious predecessors used, you can hopefully connect to Allah in the same way they connected to Him. So I hope that you will join me on this journey, and share the Prayers of the Pious and your own prayers with everyone that you know, and please remember to also keep us in your prayers. Omar Suleiman March 2019

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did that we were never aware of that the books never encompassed. May Allah be pleased with him. And O Allah, let the best of my lifetime be its ending, and my best deed be that which I seal (my life with), and the best of my days the Day I meet You. O Allah! We ask you the best of this life and the best of the Hereafter and protect us from the Fire of Hell.’ (al-Baqarah 2:201) In a similar vein, Salam ibn Mutiʿ (may Allah be pleased with him) was heard making this du ʿ ā’ : ‘O Allah, if you have granted any righteous servant of Yours a station because of a trial they faced, then grant it to me while sparing me that trial.’ Allah is capable of giving the best of this life and the best of the next, so don’t ask Allah for trials and tests but still seek reward. Be graceful when Allah tests you because it might be the case that we can only reach that station of Allah’s pleasure by going through that trial and test. At the same time, when asking Allah know that you are asking from a merciful Lord, a capable Lord, so ask the best from Him. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) grant us the best of this life and the best of the Hereafter and protect us from the punishment of Hell. May He grant us the highest station of seekers, and the highest station of the patient, and the highest station of the grateful without putting us through trials that could potentially compromise that patience and allow us to lose out on that reward. Āmīn . Allāhumma in kunta katabtanī fī ahli al-saʿādati fa-athbitnī fīhā, wa-in kunta katabta ʿalayya al-dhanba wash-shiqwata famḥunī wa-athbitnī fī ahli al-saʿādati fa’innaka tamḥū mā-tashā’u wa-tuthbitu wa-ʿindaka ummu al-kitābi O Allah, if You have recorded me among the blessed, then affirm it therein, and if You have recorded me among the sinful and the damned, then wipe it away and affirm me among the blessed. Verily, You wipe away and affirm whatever You will, and with You is the mother of the Book. He is listed as one of the 500 most influential Muslim in the world, and listed by CNN as one of 25 Muslims changing America.

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Allāhumma ijʿal khātimata ʿamalī ṣalāta al-fajri O Allah! Make my last deed in this life the performance of Fajr prayer. As we have been reading through these different prayers, they may raise questions in your mind: How do I know what the truth is? How do I know what Allah really wants from me? How do I know that I’m upon the path that will allow me to enter into Jannah and earn me that mercy? If you look at surah al-Fātihah , there is a prayer for guidance, and it seems fitting to end this book with such a prayer. First and foremost, you should understand that there is no way that you’re going to ask Allah sincerely for guidance seventeen times a day and He leads you astray. If you are sincere in asking for guidance from Allah then most certainly He will guide you to the right path; ask Allah for guidance, ask Him for hidāyah . That’s what made this du ʿ ā’ from ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) so special. You might be doing something that feels right but it’s not actually guidance and righteousness, or you might be engaging in something that you’re not so sure about. Sometimes, you hear different people telling you different things about how to get close to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) and you’re unsure. Hence, the most important du ʿ ā’ to always keep in mind is that for guidance: Guide us to understand Your message properly; guide us to practise the Sunnah of Your Prophet (peace be upon him) properly; guide us to see our faults and our shortcomings. Guide us so that we do not unknowingly take a path that leads us away from You. So I hope, inshā’ Allāhu taʿālā, that you have benefitted from this book and from the prayers of the Salaf, and that you don’t forget these du ʿ ā’ s and this particular prayer. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to be upon the path of guidance and to guide others. May He never let us stray by the actions of the accursed devil or by the lowliness of ourselves, and may Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow that path of guidance to result in a path to Paradise and entering into His mercy on the Day of Judgement. Āmīn . meet that praise, they meet Allah subhanaw taala. And they're held accountable for what other people Allāhumma arinī al-haqqa haqqan wa-waffiqnī littibāʿihī, wa-arinī al-bāṭila bāṭilan wa-waffiqnī lijtinābihi O Allah, show me the truth as truth, and guide me to follow it; and show me the false as false, and guide me to avoid it.

Allāhumma innī naṣaḥtu li-khalqika ẓāhiran wa-ghashashtu nafsī bāṭinan, fa-hab lī ghisshī li-nafsī li-nuṣḥī li-khalqika arḍan, wa-lā baḥrun mā-fī qaʿrihi, wa-lā jabalun mā-fī waʿrihi, ijʿal khayra ʿumrī ākhirahu wa-khayra ʿamalī khawātimahu, wa-khayra ayyāmī yawma alqāka fīh Oh, He whom the eyes do not see, nor can be mixed with doubt, nor can be described by any who describe, nor is changed by any events, nor fears any oppressor or person of perceived power; who knows the weights of the mountains, the measurements of the seas, the number of raindrops, the number of leaves on trees, and the number of whatever is shrouded in the darkness of night and brightened by the light of day, for whom no heaven or earth is concealed, nor a sea in its depths, nor a mountain in its ruggedness! Make the best of my life the end of it, the best of my deeds the last of them, and the best of my days the Day I meet You. Allāhumma kamā ḥassanta khalqī faḥassin khuluqī O Allah, as You have beautified my external appearance then beautify my character. It's so beautiful! I'm crying because I didn't want it to end and it was such a beautiful journey for me." Azeeza, Goodreads These books are all written in a clear and engaging style, and they offer insights into the Islamic faith that are both informative and inspiring. If you want to learn more about Islam, I highly recommend reading any of the above mention books Book Contents

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In recent months and years he has been a prominent critic of the separation of migrant children from their families, and a supporter of rights for refugees persecuted minorities. This book presents a series of Facebook videos he delivered during Ramadan 2018. Many of the videos were watched tens of thousands of times. If you have suffered from great pain, try to convert that pain into pleasure in the Hereafter. Do not pretend like the pain doesn’t exist in this life, it existed in the lives of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and great men like ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) , but instead take that pain and convert it into a request for pleasure in the Hereafter. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) protect our children, comfort the parents who have lost their children, and have mercy on those children. May He gather those parents with their children in Jannat al-Firdaws and allow all the tragedies that we face in this life only increase our love for Him and the desire for the Hereafter. Āmīn . Allāhumma lā-taḥrimnī khayra mā-ʿindaka li-sharri mā-ʿindī O Allah, do not forbid me from the good You have, for the evil I have.doing some secret good deeds that no one was aware of. Imagine how many good deeds apobec could have Muʿādhin ibni jabalin qāla: samiʿa al-nabiyyu ṣalla Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam rajulan yadʿū yaqūlu: Allāhumma innī as’ulaka tamāma al-niʿmati, faqāla: ayyu shay’in tamāmu al-niʿmati? Qāla: daʿwatun daʿawtu bihā arju bihā al-khayra. Qāla: fa’inna min tamāmi al-niʿmati dukhūla al-jannati wal-fawza mina al-nāri. Wa-samiʿa rajulan wa-huwa yaqūlu: yā dha

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There are some Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) who were so poetic with everything that they said and everything that they did. One of those is ʿAli ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) , the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , and one of the first believers. ʿAli was near and dear to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and he resembled him in many different ways. This du ʿ ā’ is a narration of the qiyām du ʿ ā’ , the nightly prayer of ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him) that he would stand and recite. It’s a long but poetic du ʿ ā’ , and at the end of it all ʿAli knows that no matter how much you praise Allah (glorified and exalted is He) , you will never be able to fully encompass the praise and the gratitude that He is due. As long as you call upon Allah and show gratitude and praise Him for His creation, praise Him for His mercy, praise Him for His bounties, praise Him for His forgiveness, Allah will not disappoint. No amount of praise can truly encompass the praise that He is due, because His mercy and benevolence exceeds all the praise that we could ever express. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to praise Him as beautifully as ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him) , this beautiful servant of His, and to not be let down and to be guaranteed Paradise as ʿAli was guaranteed Paradise. Āmīn . Angels in Your Presence: A Guide to Understanding and Working with Angels is a book exploring angels’ role in Islam. It discusses the different types of angels, their powers, and their role in human life. It also guides working with angels to achieve our goals and aspirations.destructive praise because it can put us in a situation of hypocrisy. May Allah protect this bubble Allāhumma lā-tajʿalnī ʿibratan li-ghayrī, wa-lā tajʿal aḥadan asʿada bimā ʿallamtanī minnī O Allah, do not make a lesson out of me for others, and do not let there be anyone who benefits more than me from what You have taught me. Allāhumma fātira al-samāwāti wal-arḍi, ʿālima al-ghaybi wal-shahādati, innī aʿhadu ilayka fī hādhihi al-ḥayāti al-dunya: innaka in takilnī ilā nafsī tuqarribunī mina al-sharri, wa-tubāʿidunī mina al-khayri, wa-innī in athiku illā biraḥmatika fajʿalhu lī ʿindaka ʿahdan tu’addihī ilayya yawma al-qiyāmati, innaka lā-tukhlifu al-mīʿād O Allah, Originator of the heavens and earth, Knower of the seen and unseen, I testify in this worldly life of mine that if You leave me to myself, by that You are bringing me closer to harm and distancing me from good. I have no confidence except in Your mercy, so let eye. The dura is allama Gianni hired on mymail unknown what Thirdly, nada Yaga mon wala to his knee