DOUBLE TREAT!

by Asma bint Shameem

Alhamdulillaah today Allaah

al -Kareem is giving us a DOUBLE TREAT!

How’s that?

Because today is FRIDAY.

And today is also one of the days when we all are FASTING.

And on BOTH THESE DAYS, there’s a SPECIAL TIME when our Duaas are GUARANTEED to be accepted.

And both these times occur around Maghrib.

🍃 The Prophet ﷺ said:

“The day of Friday has twelve hours, in which there is no Muslim slave who asks Allaah for anything but He will grant it to him, so seek it in the last hour after ‘Asr.”

(Abu Dawood 1048 and An-Nasa’i 1389; saheeh by Al-Albani in Sahih Abu Dawud)

This is known as Sa’at al-Istijaabah (a time when Duaa is answered)

🍃 And he ﷺ ALSO said:

“There are three whose du’aa’ will not be rejected:

- a just ruler,

- a FASTING person when he breaks his fast, and

- the prayer of one who has been wronged.”

(at-Tirmidhi 2525- saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi, 2050)

So the Duaa that’s made before Maghrib on Fridays is answered, and the Duaa when breaking the fast is also answered!

And BOTH are just before Maghrib. Alhamdulillaah.

That’s why some of our pious predecessors would close their businesses, leave the world behind and confine themselves to the masjid after Asr, just to make Duaa.

🍃When Mufaddal bin Fudhaalah would pray Asr on Fridays, he would seclude himself alone to a corner of the masjid and then continue making duaa until the sun would set.

🍃 Similarly, Sa’eed bin Jubayr would pray Asr, then he would not speak to anyone until the sun would set - meaning that he would busy himself with duaa.

🍃 Ṣalt bin Bastaam once became blind, so his brothers sat after Asr on Friday making duaa for him, and suddenly before the sun set, he sneezed and his sight returned!

So be SURE to combine the POWERFUL DUAA of a FASTING person with that SPECIAL ‘HOUR’ when Duaa is accepted on Fridays, this evening.

Plan ahead of time and finish your work early.

Set aside some time before maghrib just to make duaa.

‎🍃 Ibn al-Qayyim said:

‎“The Hour of Response in it (i.e. Friday) is like the Night of Decree in Ramadhaan.” ⁣

‎⁣(Zaad al-Maa’d 1/398)

So go ahead and make duaa for whatever you need of the dunya and Aakhirah.

Ask for forgiveness and guidance and protection.

Ask for wellbeing and success of both the worlds.

Ask for yourself, your family, your friends and loved ones.

And of course make Duaa for the Ummah especially our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

What a beautiful opportunity today for a slave to beg his Master. Alhamdulillaah!

Don’t let it go!

And Allaah knows best.