My Personal Du'a to You
This is a du'a I began writing a few years ago, almost by accident. It started as a personal prayer I wanted to send to a friend before Ramadan, but it kept growing… word by word… and I just kept writing. By the end, I was in tears, completely overwhelmed. Somehow, it turned into a universal prayer, something that came straight from the depths of my heart...
Today, I decided to translate it into English and share it here with you. 💗 I ask Allah, the One and Only, the Most Merciful, the Most Generous, the Most Just, the Most Compassionate, the True and Absolute Creator and Lord of everything we can and cannot imagine, the One who gives the most, the Most Noble, the Flawless, the One without defect, the One who, by giving of Himself, never loses anything, the One who always knows, sees, and hears everything, the One who alone most deserves to be Honored, the One who is Alone, One and Only, truly Self-Sufficient and Independent, the Only One capable of always responding, the Only One who witnesses everything, the One who is the only Absolute Truth, the Only One worthy of All Honor, All Praise, the Only Irreplaceable One, the Only Absolute Knower of the Hidden, of the past, the present and the future, the Only One who, even if we had an eternity of time and with every breath endlessly praised Him, it would NEVER be even the smallest percentage of enough, compared to how much He, the Only One, Truly Deserves, the One who alone is capable of giving us every day everything we have, see, hear and experience, the Only One worthy of our fear, the Only TRUE ABSOLUTE RULER!
To accept our acts of worship, to strengthen our hearts in Iman during our short time on this world so that we stray as little as possible from the Straight Path, to guide us to the end of our earthly life upon the Straight Path, to not abandon us to our weaknesses and faults, to remove all sadness from our hearts, to grant us an Iman through which we will not feel the true weight of any trial, to make our Iman every day closer in strength to that day in our life when it was or will be the strongest, to guide us to the Straight Path, to have Mercy on our hearts so that we truly feel the purpose of our existence, to make the worship of Allah our greatest priority every single day.
I ask Him to let us always find ways to remind others around us of Allah’s Truth, for that to be our life’s mission as much as possible. To truly follow the life mission of Allah’s dearest servant, the last of all prophets, Sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, those two words “Arise and Warn!” I ask Him that we think more often about death, and the other two words “O soul, come out!” About the moment when we will be watching our life ending, with no return.
That in that moment we feel as little regret as possible for what we see behind us, that we feel as little as possible the wish to go back and fix something, that we feel as much peace and contentment as possible with what we managed to do before our time ran out, that clock which keeps ticking while its battery grows weaker and weaker, and we know nothing about that battery except that it keeps getting weaker and weaker, and that at any moment we have more and more chance that this life ends, irreversibly!
I ask Him that when the angel of death says those two words to us, “O soul, come out!” that the soul’s departure be like the described flowing of water, and never like wool caught in thorns. I ask Him that our soul surrenders in that moment and never loses trust in its Lord! I ask Him to make our life in the grave like that wide open space, pleasant in nature, as beautifully described, and never like its opposite, which we don’t even want to imagine, only remembering that moment when we were in a tight crowd and felt pressed, while knowing that even then our ribs were still in place.
I ask Him that on the day when Judgment is given to us, on that unimaginably long and terrifying day, compared to which even the scariest, most uncertain day of this worldly life would be nothing, when people hold their heads in despair, I ask Him to give us on that Day the most beautiful ending, to forgive ALL OUR SINS, EVERY SINGLE SIN, and to grant us an eternal place in the most beautiful abode He created for us, in Jannah, and that it be Al-Firdaus.
I ask Him that we be among those for whom He prepared the Greatest Reward, to GAZE UPON THE FACE OF THE ONE TO WHOM WE RAISED OUR HANDS, TO WHOM WE BOWED IN PRAYER, TO WHOM WE YEARNED, IN WHOM WE HOPED, WHOM WE LONGED TO SEE FOR SO LONG, I ASK HIM THAT WE BE THERE, AND THAT HE BE PLEASED WITH US, AND THAT WE TRULY FEEL THAT WE FULFILLED THE PURPOSE OF OUR EXISTENCE, THAT WE BE PROUD SERVANTS OF ALLAH WHO MANIFESTED AND PROVED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OUTCOME THAT ALLAH HAS PREPARED FOR HUMAN SOULS. AMIN!