Duas

Dua after the last tashahhud and before salaam
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اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ الْجَنَّةَ ، وأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ النَّارِ
Translation
O Allah, I ask You to grant me Paradise and I seek refuge with You
from the Fire.
Transliteration
allaa-humma innee as'aluk-al-jannata, wa a‛oodhu bika mi-nan-naar
Sources: Abu Dawud No• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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Dua for the remembrance and glorification of Allah
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لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ
Translation
Abdullah Ibn Qays (may Allah be pleased with him) related that the
Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to
him, "O Abdullah Ibn Qays, shall I not inform you of a treasure from
the treasures of paradise?"
He (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) then said, "Say,
'There is no might nor power except with Allah.'"
Transliteration
laa ḥawla wa laa quwwata illaa billaah
Sources: Bukhari No# 4205, 6384, 6409, 7386; Muslim No# 2704; Abu
Dawud No# 1526; At-Tirmidhi No# 3601; Ibn Majah No# 3824, 3825• • •
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Counting the Remembrance of Allah
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سُبْحَانَ اللهِ
الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ
اللهُ أَكْبَرُ
Translation
"How far from imperfections Allah is"
"All praise is for Allah"
"Allah is the greatest."
[or any type of Dhikr that requires counting]
Abdullah Ibn AAamr (RA) said, "I saw the prophet (peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) make tasbeeh (count the remembrance of Allah)
with his right hand."
Transliteration
subḥaan-allaah
al-ḥamdu-lillaah
allaahu akbar
Sources: Abu Dawud No# 1502; At-Tirmidhi No# 3411, 3486; An-Nisa'i No# 1355;

THE TRUTH OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS THE DESTINY GOD SHOWS US IN OUR BRAINS

The entire life of a human being is made up of the perceptions in his
brain revealed to him through his five senses. For instance, a
person walking on the street actually walks on the street inside
his brain. His feet, the unevenness of the pavement, the sloping
road, the discomfort his shoes cause him, the height of the
curbstones, the wind and all the cars passing by are seen and sensed
in the brain.
A person who rubs his eye because of an irritating dust particle in
it will grasp this reality. When he rubs his eye, he sees the image
of the road, trees and cars moving up and down. This is similar to
the shifting of images on the television. That system also exists in
the brain. In this sense, a person is similar to someone watching
television. In the same way that he watches television programs, he
also watches what is provided for him, through his senses, in his
brain.
This being the case, who is it that sees these images in his brain
or feels the cold wind on his face? God informs us that it is the
SOUL that perceives these sensations. What we call "our life" is
actually what our Lord shows our soul in accordance with the destiny
He creates for us.
WHO IS IT THAT WATCHES THE IMAGE OF A HOUSE FORMED IN HIS BRAIN?
The question that most bothers Darwinist- materialists is; "Who is it
that SEES the three dimensional, bright image that is formed in
the brain?" As we know, everything we see is an image formed by
electrical signals reaching our brains. Stimuli entering from the
eye reach the visual center in the brain, and the brain forms a
three dimensional, colorful image conveying a flawless sense of
dimension.
Books on biology, physiology and biochemistry give a detailed
account of how this image is formed in the brain. However, you will
be unable to find the most important fact about this issue
anywhere: The image is formed in the brain. But, who is it that
watches the image formed there? An image without an audience is of
no use. So, where is this audience located in the body? No one has
so far encountered a being in the brain that watches this image.
The one who watches the image in the brain is not a being made up of
flesh and bone. It is rather man's consciousness, that is, his
soul. Because they do not want to accept the existence of the soul,
Darwinist-materialists always avoid this question. Once the issue
is raised, they strive to silence the speaker in a panic. You can
try asking a Darwinist-materialist that question yourself!
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT?
If someone asks you how far away a friend of yours is from you as you
chat to him, you will most probably answer, "A few feet." Yet, that
is not an accurate answer. Your friend is not a few feet away at
all; he is in the visual center in your brain. The direction from
which you hear his sound and his three- dimensional image conveying
a perfect sense of depth makes you think that he is a few feet away
from you.
This sensation is so strong that proving otherwise demands a lot of
explanation, as is the case right now. However, what we are
discussing here is not a philosophy or a system of thought. The fact
that what we call "the material world" is created in the sensory
centers in our brain is also verified by science today.
The TV set which you think exists in the corner of your room, the
music you hear, the roses you smell, your friends you enjoy being
with, the ice-cream that tastes so good, in brief, everything in
the outside world an image formed in your brain.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION DARWINIST- MATERIALISTS CANNOT ANSWER:

Who Is It That Watches A Bright World, Hears Birds Singing Or Smells A Rose?
Stimuli coming from the ears, eyes and nose reach the brain in the
form of electrical signals. Who is it in the brain that experiences
these electric signals as sound, smell and sensation? Inside the
brain there exists a consciousness that perceives all these without
having any need for eyes, ear or nose. To whom does this
consciousness belong? Darwinist-materialists, who believe that
nothing exists except matter, cannot answer these questions.
Never forget that it is in your power to destroy the basic claims of
Darwinist-materialist ideology.
The 21st century will be the century when all these facts will be
grasped and accepted.
EVERYONE LIVES HIS ENTIRE LIFE IN THE SMALL SPACE IN HIS BRAIN
There is one fact everyone knows: The senses of sight, sound, smell
and taste are perceived in the brain. That is, we experience the
outside world inside us. We spend our entire lives in that small
space in our brains. We watch the outside world on the television in
our brain. We smell the electrical signals entering our brains from
the external world in our sensory centers. We again perceive the
electrical signals entering our brains from the external world as
hardness. The electrical signals entering our brains are
transformed into sounds in the loudspeakers in our brains.
We experience all these sensations in that room of a few cubic
inches in our brains, and all through our lives we can never step out
of it. No individual, not someone traveling from one continent to
another, nor the first man who walked on the moon, nor a farmer who
has never left his village in his life can go anywhere outside the
small room in his brain. We see oceans, woods, the sky, the Sun, the
Moon, flowers and fruits, which do exist in the external world, in
this small room in our brain. We smell them there and hear the
sounds they produce in that room, without ever making direct
contact with their originals outside … Inside the brain there is a
consciousness perceiving all these sensations. However, that
conscious certainly does not belong to the nerve cells or lipids
making up the brain. This consciousness is the soul God creates.
Every individual who reads this obvious fact must ponder on God, the
Exalted, Who places the entire universe with all its colors in a
pitch-dark space of a few cubic inches in the brain, fear Him and
take refuge in Him.

THERE IS MATTER OUTSIDE OF US, BUT WE CAN NEVER REACH ITS ORIGINAL THROUGH OUR SENSES

If someone asks you how far away the TV set is when you are
watching the late-night news, you will most probably answer, "A few
feet." Yet, that answer is far from accurate. That is because the TV
set is not "a few feet" away from you at all, but is in the sensory
center in your brain. What you see is not the television out there
but an image formed in the visual center in your brain. The signal
reaching you by means of light from the external world is
transformed into electrical signals by your cells, and these signals
reaching the brain are perceived as an image.
This fact is a great miracle created by God. In a tiny space made up
of flesh, lipids and proteins, God creates a colorful, bright image
that gives a true sense of depth. This is an image of perfect
quality and sharpness that has no blurriness, darkness or shift.
Furthermore, in another tiny spot in that same brain, God creates
high-quality, multi- dimensional sound with no distortion that
accompanies this image perfectly and is totally synchronized with
it.
It is a scientific fact that everyone actually lives in a small room
in his skull, in a tiny part of his brain. No one, no matter how
much he strives, can ever step out of that room in his brain. He can
never reach the original of the world that occurs in his brain.
This scientific fact is very important in the sense that it
indicates the glorious and unprecedented creation of God. From the
Prophet Adam on, God has created separate lives in the brains of all
the people that have ever appeared on Earth, showed colorful,
bright images providing a sense of distance in the brains of
billions of people and caused them to hear the loveliest songs, the
roaring of a waterfall, thunder or the buzzing of a bee. More
strikingly, God created all such perceptions with such delicate
harmony and perfection that the majority of these people never
realized that they actually heard the sounds or watched the images
in their brains. They always assumed that they saw the actual
things that existed in the outside world, talked to them or touched
them.
Never forget this important truth:
We can never reach the original object. We can only experience what
we see in our brains.