# Episode 28: If You Have Written Me From The Sinful... | Prayers of the Pious

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** Prayers of the Pious
**Published:** 2018-06-12
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/fOdnMBDFGPs
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/prayers-of-the-pious/episode-28-if-you-have-written-me-from-the-sinful-prayers-of-the-pious-ramadan-series
**Topics:** Acts of Worship, Sharia

## Description
Can you change what has been decreed? This episode covers Umar’s prayer to be written amongst those who have been blessed. [ Day 28 Du’a ] اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ كَتَبْتَنِي فِي أَهْلِ السَّعَادَةِ فَأَثْبِتْنِي فِيهَا وَإِنْ كُنْتَ كَتَبْتَ عَلَيَّ الذَّنْبَ وَالشِّقْوَةَ فَامْحُنِي وَأَثْبِتْنِي...

## Transcript
**[0:01]** As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome back to Prayers of the Pious. Abu Uthman Al-Hindi, may Allah be pleased with him, gives us this incident where he says that one day I was doing tawaf around the Ka'bah and he said I noticed Umar ibn al-Khattab doing tawaf.

**[0:21]** And Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu in the middle of his tawaf he started to weep. So he said that I walked close to Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu while he was weeping to hear what he was saying. So he said he made the following du'a.

**[0:54]** The narration says that Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said, O Allah, if you have written me amongst those who are blessed, then affirm it therein. And if you have written me amongst the sinful and the damned, then wipe it away from me and affirm me amongst the blessed.

**[1:16]** Verily you wipe away and affirm what you will and with you is the mother of the books. This narration of Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu once again speaks to Umar being afraid that he was written in the scrolls of hypocrisy even though the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam affirmed many times that Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu was amongst those who were guaranteed paradise.

**[1:37]** But where do we learn from this? You have to understand that your name as you came into this world, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said the angels write as you are in the womb of your mother after four months.

**[1:52]** They write not just your lifespan and your rizq, your sustenance and your date of death, but they write you down as saeed or shaqee, as one who is happy or one who is deprived. That does not mean that you cannot change your fate or you cannot change your fortune, that does not mean that you are stuck in some sort of damnation or some sort of deprivation.

**[2:15]** Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu is speaking about the scrolls with Allah and the greatest way to understand your position with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala right now in terms of your scrolls. You know, Allah mentions on the day of judgment everyone receiving their book of deeds either in their right hand or in their left hand, may Allah make us from the people who receive their books in their right hand.

**[2:36]** If Allah was to give you your book of deeds now, some people will celebrate their book of deeds on the day of judgment. They will go around showing their book of deeds to everyone else. Some people will hide or try to hide their book of deeds, but they will be chained with their left hand behind their backs holding that book of deeds.

**[2:52]** If Allah was to give you your book of deeds right now, would you be comfortable showing that book to anybody else? That's what Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu is really speaking about and teaching us here. Aside from the lessons in understanding divine decree, just to practically act upon this dua, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala write us amongst those who are affirmed in happiness and righteousness.

**[3:15]** May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala affirm that therein if we are written there now, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow the homes that he has built for us in paradise to stay our homes and to not let others inherit those homes. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us from the fire and protect us from being written amongst the deprived and those who have earned his displeasure.

**[3:34]** Allahuma ameen. JazakumAllahu khayran. See you all next time inshaAllah. Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

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