Ramadan Du’as on Repeat
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Ep. 3 - Du'a for breaking your fast
Download the list of du'as from the series here.
It's Maghrib on a Ramadan night, and you break your fast with a date and that famous du'a taught by the Prophet ﷺ. But what are the meanings behind this oft-repeated du'a? And why do we say 'inshaAllah' at the end of it?
Dr. Tahir sheds light on the beautiful reasons we say these words every single day for a whole month.
Du’a when breaking the fast
ذَهَبَ الظَّمَأُ وَابْتَلَّتِ الْعُرُوقُ وَثَبَتَ الأَجْرُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ
Dhahaba adh-dhama’u wabtallatil-‘urooqu wa thabata al-ajru insha-Allah.
The thirst is gone, the veins are moist, and the reward is established, if Allah wills.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Alhamdulillah wa salatu was salamu ala rasulullah wa ba'd. Sometimes we think of du'as as a wish list. Oh Allah give me this, oh Allah give me that, oh Allah save me from this or I seek refuge in you from that. But many du'as as we know them from the Qur'an and from the sunnah of the Prophet alaihi was salatu was salam are just humbling expressions. So what are these expressions? They're void of any explicit ask of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the du'a that we're going to be learning today is of that type. Ibn Umar radi allahu ta'ala reported that the Prophet salallahu alayhi was salam would say upon breaking his fast, So in this du'a the Prophet salallahu alayhi was salam is saying, the thirst is gone, gone is the thirst. And the reward is established insha'Allah. So you look at the components of this du'a and note that this is one of those du'as that you're going to say every single day in the month of Ramadan. Now this du'a is not specific to Ramadan, it's for when you break your fast. So even after Ramadan if you have to make up fast or you're fasting the six days of shawwal or you're fasting on yom arafah or ashura or whatever it is that you're fasting, this is the du'a that you want to make upon breaking your fast. Upon breaking your fast means after you've actually had some water or date or whatever it is that you're breaking your fast on, then you want to say this du'a. Some people make the mistake of saying, before they actually put anything in their mouths before they actually break their fast.
So you want to say this after you've actually completed the fast, i.e. that you've actually broken the fast. So let's look at each one of these components of this du'a. That the thirst is gone. SubhanAllah, when did the thirst go away? You were thirsty all day. Maybe it was a hot day, it was one of those days where subhanAllah you had to do some intense labor or whatever it may be. So you fast and you were thirsty and the thirst was gone with a sip of water, with just a little bit of water. SubhanAllah, other times of the year it's frustrating when you just have a little bit of this or a little bit of that, but after fasting, even that little bit, you know, allows you to be replenished. And it shows you how perhaps inappreciative we are of the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It reminds us that we only need a little actually, you know, to be satisfied. That the veins have become moistened, meaning that what you have put in your body now, not just that it quenches your thirst, but that you're actually nourishing, re-nourishing your body, biidhi laahi ta'ala, after you've left off that food and drink for, you know, a significant portion of the day. Now, here's the part of the du'a that I really want you to pay attention to, which is, wa thabit al ajroo in sha Allah. The reward is established in sha Allah, with the will of Allah, by the will of Allah. We're actually discouraged from saying in sha Allah in du'a. So why is it that we're saying in sha Allah here, when we're saying that the reward is established? This is because no individual knows what their reward is for fasting, or if they even have a reward for fasting. Maybe somebody did something during the day that would decrease, diminish that reward,
or perhaps even erase the entire reward of fasting. And that's what we need to be careful of. Now, the reward for fasting is tremendous, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the hadith al-Qudsi, that every action that the son of Adam does is for himself, and it will be rewarded 10 to 700 times over. illa assawm fa innahu li wa ana azzebi Except for fasting, fasting is for me. And I will reward for it. This is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says. So the reward for fasting is tremendous. At the same time, the Prophet ﷺ warned us, and he says in the hadith, man lam yada'a qawla az-zoor wal-'amala bihi fa laysa lillahi haajatun an yada'a ta'amahu wa sharabah Whoever does not leave off false speech and evil actions, that is while he's fasting, Allah has no need for him to leave off his food and his drink. So look at what we're doing throughout the day. Are we saying evil things about people? Are we doing things that are unbecoming of a Muslim? These are things that we think about as we're saying this du'a. You go now, you're breaking your fast, and you're saying thabit al-ajr, the reward is established, insha'Allah. Because you really don't know, but you should be reminding yourself, and it is a reminder for you at the end of your fast to make sure that you protect your fast from those things that will harm it. The Prophet ﷺ also said, as-siyamu junna, that fasting is a shield. ma lam yakhriqhu, as long as a person doesn't puncture that shield, then it will be a protection for him. Your fasting should be a protection for you. You should be a shield for yourself. It should be a protection for you. You should get a great reward for it. And this du'a that you're making at the end of the day, as you're breaking your fast,
should be a reminder for you to be mindful during your fast. The final takeaway that I want to mention from this particular hadith is that it's an encouragement for us to strive in ibadah. How so? Because right away we're saying, wa abtalat al'uruq, astabat al'ajr insha'Allah. All of that day that you were fasting, the fatigue or the exhaustion that you may have faced, it's all going away in an instant. And subhanAllah, that is the reality of every act of ibadah that we do. Yeah, it may involve some difficulty while we're going through it, but it goes away. The difficulty goes away. And you think about it, if you made hajj in the past, and you faced some difficulty, do you remember that difficulty right now? Probably not. If you fasted last Monday or last Thursday, and now you face some difficulty during that fast, do you feel that difficulty right now? Absolutely not. The whatever acts of worship that we do, whatever difficulty may be associated with that act of worship, or whatever fatigue that we've gone through in performing that act of worship, it goes away almost in an instant. But the reward remains, walhamdulillah. The same is true for sins. Maybe a person enjoys the sin while they're committing it, but afterwards, the regret that they feel, the fact that that sin has been written down and recorded, and perhaps there's consequences in this life and the next for that sin, wasn't really worth that very temporary enjoyment. Same thing. You know, when we're talking about now, this fatigue that a person goes through in the worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, all of that fatigue goes away, but the reward is established, insha'Allah. And a person will see that reward when they take their book in their right hand, bi-idhnillahi ta'ala, and they say to everybody else on that day, haa'u muqra'u kitabiyya, here, read my book.
Zahab al-dhama' wa abtallat al-uruq wa thabatal ajru, insha'Allah. Learn that dua, memorize it, make sure you say it every day when you break your fast, and teach it to others. BarakAllahu feekum wa jazaikumAllahu khayran.
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