Ramadan Du’as on Repeat
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Ep. 2 - Du'a to start Ramadan Right
Download the list of du'as from the series here.
You've heard that the moon has been spotted and the new month of the Hijri calendar is beginning: Ramadan. What better way is there to start something than speaking to the One who created Time? Dr. Tahir teaches us a du'a the Companions made at the commencement of every month that can especially help us start Ramadan off on the right foot, inshaAllah.
Du’a to start Ramadan right
اللهُمَّ أَدْخِلْهُ عَلَيْنَا بِالأمْنِ وَالإِيمانِ وَالسَّلامَةِ وَالإِسْلامِ وَجِوارٍ مِن الشَّيْطَانِ وَرِضْوانٍ مِن الرَّحْمن
Allahumma adkhilhu ‘alayna bil-amni wal-iman wassalamati wal-Islam wa-jiwarin min al-shaytan wa-ridwanin min al-Rahman
O Allah, enter this month upon us with security and faith, safety and Islam, protection from Shaytan, and pleasure and acceptance from the Most Merciful.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Alhamdulillah wa salatu was salamu ala rasulullah wa ba'd. It is very important for us as Muslims to be connected to the Islamic hijri calendar. So many acts of worship that we do are tied to the Islamic calendar, even many of the pillars of Islam. The upcoming month of Ramadan, for example, is tied to that knowledge. The zakat that we pay, in fact, is based on the lunar calendar, knowing when the beginning of Hajj is, is tied to that calendar. So it's very important for us to know the beginning of the Islamic months. Today's du'a is a very important du'a. It's a profound du'a that we make at the beginning of the month. It helps us to start the month off right. And it is a du'a that is so important that the companions would learn it the way that they learn a surah of the Quran. Abdullah ibn Hisham, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, says, كان أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يتعلمون هذا الدعاء كما يتعلمون الصورة من القرآن He says, radiallahu anhu, that the companions, and he was a young companion, he was so young that when his mother took him to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, for the bay'ah, to pledge the allegiance, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said he's too young. And he wiped him on the head and he made du'a for him. So he's telling us about the other companions. He said that the companions of the Prophet used to learn this du'a the way that they would learn a surah from the Quran, إذا دخل الشهر, when the month would enter, that is at the beginning of the new month, the new hijri month, they would say,
اللهم أدخله علينا بالأمن والإيمان والسلامة والإسلام وجوار من الشيطان ورضوان من الرحمن Oh Allah, enter this month upon us with amin, security, and iman, true faith, with salama, safety, and islam, that is the outward manifestations of your faith, right? The practice of Islam. وجوار من الشيطان And protection from the shaitan and the pleasure and acceptance of ar-rahman. Now, even though we're only going to say this du'a once during the month of Ramadan, and that's at the very beginning, we should learn this du'a and say it at the beginning of every month, every lunar month for the rest of our lives. And we should stick to it. And so that's why we've included this du'a in Ramadan du'a on repeat, even though we're only saying it once in the month of Ramadan. So let's look at the components of this du'a. There are four major components of du'a. First, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for al-amin and iman, that is for security and for faith. Why security? Why is that the first thing, subhanAllah, that the companions would ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for? It's because security is the foundation. Establishing the religion, the protection of the deen, the protection of yourself, your wealth, and so forth, all depends upon having security. Even Ibrahim alayhis salam, when making du'a for Mecca, asked that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it a baladan aminan, a secure land, because we need that security in our persons. We need that security for society as a whole in order to be able to establish everything else.
Now, part of this means that people are also secure from your harm. So when you're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for security, it's a total package that people don't harm you and that you are not harming other people. You're also asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for iman, al-iman, that you have strong faith, that you're not shaken by shubuhat and doubts that come from here and there, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allows you to start this month renewing your faith, renewing your relationship with Him subhanahu wa ta'ala. And iman is actually one of the root causes for security, because with true iman, a person is conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They know that Allah azza wa jalla is watching them. They don't want to do anything that is displeasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They don't want to do anything that is going to disrupt society and bring harm to the overall population. So it's very important that we start the dua with iman and iman. And then they would say, wa salamati wa al-islam. And al-salam means safety. That is, you're safe from anything that would harm your deen and anything that would harm your dunya and islam. When combined with iman, iman is talking about your faith, whereas islam is talking about the expression of that faith, the manifestations of that faith, your salat, your zakat, your fasting, and so on and so forth. And so asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at the very beginning of the month that you fulfill the obligations that you have to him throughout that month. And a protection from shaitan, wa jiwarin minash shaitan. Why? Because subhanAllah, shaitan told Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as we know from the Quran, that he is going to attack man. He's going to come from various angles. And he has an objective.
And that is to make us ungrateful. That we don't show gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so we're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect us from the whispers of shaitan, who wants to tempt us to use the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us to disobey Allah. He wants us to use those things that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us to disobey our creator. And we're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect us from that and to make us in fact from the people of gratitude, those people who worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala properly. And then we say, wa ridwanin min ar-rahman. That is the pleasure and the acceptance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If Allah azawajal is pleased with you that month, who else's pleasure do you desire? If Allah azawajal accepts you, then whose rejection are you concerned about? And so reminding yourself at the very beginning of that month and asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make you pleasing to him, to make you acceptable to him subhanahu wa ta'ala is one of the ultimate goals. And you just think about this du'a which is so encompassing that you would make that at the beginning of every month so that you're almost renewing this relationship that you have with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now we mentioned that this is a du'a that the companions of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam would make, that they would learn it the way that they learned the Quran, that they would dedicate themselves to it, that they would repeat it. Many of you may have heard a similar du'a attributed to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And that is true that there is a du'a that is attributed to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that he would say at the beginning of the month. However, the great scholars of hadith like Abu Dawood al-Sajistani and others have said that this du'a is not authentic and there is no authentic du'a traceable to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as it relates to seeing the Hilal at the beginning of the month
or the beginning of the month entering. So what we should memorize inshallah is this du'a that the companions of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam would make. اللهم أدخله علينا بالأمن والإيمان والسلامة والإسلام وجوار من الشيطان وردوان من الرحمن Learn this du'a, memorize it, teach it to others. جزاكم الله خيرا
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