Jumu'ah Khutbah | Mufti Azeemuddin Ahmed | 9/29/23

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our Master Muhammad and the family of our Master Muhammad, and bless and send peace. O Allah, open my heart and ease my affairs, and release the knot from my tongue so that they may understand my speech. Glory be to You, there is no knowledge for us except what You have taught us. O Allah, teach us what benefits us and benefit us from what You have taught us, and increase us in knowledge and action. O Allah, enlighten our hearts with Your knowledge and use our bodies for Your obedience. And guide us to what You love and are pleased with, from speech, action, intention, and guidance. Indeed, You are Able to do all things. Ameen. Ameen. Ameen.

We ask Allah that whatever our needs are, and the issues we're going through in our life, that those issues get resolved. And through our connection with the masjid and our sincerity sitting here, we ask Allah to allow us to find answers, and allow us to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Ameen.

Reflecting on the Life of Rasulullah ﷺ in Rabi' ul-Awwal

Beloved friends, in the blessed days and nights of the month in which people reflect upon the birth as well as the death of Rasulullah ﷺ, the month of Rabi' ul-Awwal, halfway right through. We are now in the 13th, the Ayyam al-Bid, the central days of the month, the 13th, 14th, and the 15th. Which in reality Rasulullah ﷺ would always also fast three days a month, and it would be the 13th, 14th, and the 15th of any month. And so if we get an opportunity to do so, there'll be great reward if we can fast today, tomorrow, and the day after.

So it's a time for us to reflect on the sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ, the life of Rasulullah ﷺ, and the aspects of his life that maybe we do not get much chance to speak about. And one of the things that we see about the Prophet ﷺ, non-stop, no matter how much time we spend, it's never enough. There's always so much to take from the Prophet ﷺ's life.

One is the fact that there has to be, no matter where we are, there has to be immense love for every act of his. And there's no such thing as, is this sufficient? Could I do more? Could I do less? There's always more. There's always more that a person can do.

The Story of Love for Allah and His Rasul

And I want to share with you a beautiful, powerful story, just for us to realize where the sahaba رضي الله عنهم أجمعين were when it comes to the sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ.

Well, you have a man who came to the Prophet ﷺ on the authority of Anas رضي الله عنه. And he said, متى الساعة - when is the day of judgment, Ya Rasulullah? And the Prophet ﷺ asked him, ما أعددت لها - What have you prepared for it?

He said, I haven't prepared anything for it. Except that I love Allah and the Prophet ﷺ. That's all I have. He's so honest. I've got nothing besides that.

So then the Prophet ﷺ said to him that, أنت مع من أحببت - You will be with the one who you love. If all you say is you love Allah and His Rasul, you will be with the one who you love.

He was honest. He was sincere. And he was sincere in the fact that I don't have much to show. Maybe many times we focus on that. But then we actually need to focus on the fact that he's speaking to, not an audience. He's not speaking to his spouse or his children. He's looking and sitting and speaking directly to the Prophet ﷺ. How could a person sit there and lie? So when he says, I love Allah and His Rasul, and he's sitting in front of the Prophet ﷺ, you know that he was honest. That he genuinely in his heart, he's saying, I love Allah and I love you. That's how it is.

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 6171)

So then the Prophet ﷺ gives him a beautiful honest answer. أنت مع من أحببت - You are gonna be with the one who you love.

Anas رضي الله عنه then responds and he says, he adds to that, he says, فأنا أحب النبي - I love the Prophet. Anas رضي الله عنه said, فما فرحنا بشيء فرحنا بقول النبي ﷺ أنت مع من أحببت - We were never happy with any statement or any incident that we witnessed or any statement as much as we were happy on that occasion by hearing the Prophet ﷺ declaring that a man will be with the one he loves.

Why is that? Why are they so happy? Why is this the happiest day of his life? Because deep down he and the companions know that this is the honest truth of every single one of them. That they all love Allah and His Rasul more than anything else. So if you have, we all know who we are inside. If you are that type of person inside who knows that you love Allah and His Rasul more then today is also the happiest day for you. Today should also be, if you're hearing this first time, or whenever you heard it the first time, it should be genuinely a very happy day that I love Allah and His Rasul.

The Challenge of Love in Our Era

And one thing I want to add to that is in our era, love is not spoken about too much. Love for Allah and His Rasul. Especially in our generation, the younger generation and our children's generation. It's so much about, if anything, it's about do's and don'ts. But the aspect of loving Rasulullah ﷺ and for a person to feel emotionally attached to Allah and His Rasul, that's a question.

Let's ask ourselves, how emotionally attached are the elders sitting here? Those who are listening. And how emotionally attached are our children to the Prophet ﷺ? It's not hard to find an elder who cries in a program about the Seerah of the Prophet ﷺ. But how challenging it might be to find a youngster who gets teary-eyed.

It is not about the age difference. Those people who are crying today, the elders, more than likely were people who cried when they were young as well. Because it was a different era. Now the era we live in is unfortunately, the love of Allah and the love of Rasulullah ﷺ is something very removed from our environment. It's not something very spoken about or emphasized. And if it's not spoken about or emphasized, then the realization of that and the internalization of that is gonna be much much more difficult.

Building Emotional Attachment

Because to have an emotional attachment with the Nabi, it requires a high level of iman, a high level of knowledge of his life, a yaqeen and a conviction that he did so much for me that no other human being has ever done for me. And I am more indebted to him than I am more indebted to any other human being. And I will need him on the day of judgment to intercede on my behalf more than I need anyone else. Those feelings have to become real in our heart. And once they become real in our heart, then we will feel the tingling feeling of love in our heart for our Nabi ﷺ. The excitement to go visit his resting place in Madinatul Munawwara. The excitement about listening to a talk of his.

A Scholar's Love for the Prophet ﷺ

Subhanallah. I remember, how our elders, there's hundreds of examples of that. Once a scholar, you know, subhanallah, came and spoke about the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ. He had a flight, 6 AM. 6 AM was his flight, means he had to leave his home probably 4.30, at least 4.15. And he came here, and he had to drive back an hour, back to where he's from, at least. And it was freezing cold, and I thought he must have come with some community members, but he's an elder. He came himself, with an elder who's probably older than him.

And he said, "Hazrat, you came alone? You didn't come with any students or musallis?" He said, "No, no one is available." Tomorrow morning is his flight, 6, and he's leaving the masjid here, from a seerah program at 11 PM. Naturally, anyone who comes from so far, for any program, we love to honor their time, and give them a small gift. So I presented a gift to him, and subhanallah, he didn't say anything at that time.

Later on, he met me, and he returned the gift back. A monetary gift, and he said, "You know, I didn't want to say anything at that time, there are others present, but in my heart, I feel it absolutely unacceptable, for me to accept any gift, when I get the opportunity to speak about my Prophet ﷺ. No matter how late at night it may be, no matter how late at night I may come back home, no matter how early my flight may be, but to be able to speak about the Prophet ﷺ, is an obligation, is an honor. And for that, there's no gifts accepted."

Where do you get that? That's speaking volumes of what's inside a person's heart. And do we see that today? I reflect upon my own life. You all reflect on your own lives. Reflect upon your home, environment of your children.

The Need for True Love

We have so much Seerah programs, we have Seerah Q&A sessions, we have all sorts of competitions, we have writing competitions, spoken word competitions, we have poetry competitions, we have all sorts of amazing things happening in the world now. But let's go back to the simple love of Rasulullah ﷺ that was found in the previous generation, of people who never attended any of these competitions, and maybe would not be able to write a beautiful paragraph, even a paragraph much less than 2, 3, 4, 5 pages, and would not be able to write two lines of poetry, much less a whole page of poetry in praises of the Prophet ﷺ. But one thing they had was the maqsad, the purpose of it, which was true love.

As fathers sitting here, moms, I'm sure this thought comes to your mind. How do I create love in my children for the Prophet ﷺ? Something that I enjoy, or my parents have enjoyed. I'm sure this is a thought that crosses your mind. And it's definitely a very important discussion.

This discussion, I don't mean to get into that right now, but I want us to think about, just realize what type of society we live in right now. What we are seeing is not unique to your child, or your home, or to yourself. This is kind of the era we live in. An era of social media, of fakeness, of everything that is avatars, and online media presence, where complete opposite, a person has an identity online, an identity elsewhere. Now you have in the metaverse, the communications are happening in the metaverse. So every single thing is dehumanized. And every single thing is pixels, and dots, and a coding. And the real human sense, which is an emotion of muhabba and love, and yaqeen unseen. That's something that we are drifting away from.

And the faith is more about now, what you can interact with your five senses. What you can see, what you can feel, what you can touch, where you can examine, what you can test in a laboratory. That's what the yaqeen is moving towards. But things in a person, for them to have yaqeen in Rasulullah ﷺ, you have to have yaqeen in ghayb, on the unseen. And that's the crux of it. Otherwise we're not going anywhere. As I said, it's a longer conversation.

Practical Steps: Increasing Salawat

One of the things maybe we can do, is have a habit of collectively trying to send abundance of salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ at home. Make it a pattern at home. Start off on the day of Juma, in the midst of Rabi' ul-Awwal. But then don't stop here. Do it every single Friday, and then slowly every single weekday as well, and weekend. That every single day, the whole family has a goal of this much salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ we will send.

And as we send those salawat, let us think about what's going on over here. We're asking Allah to send His choicest blessings upon him. But he's so blessed. The man himself is so blessed, that anyone who chooses to raise their hands, or without raising their hands, simply says, Ya Allah, You bless my Nabi. He's so blessed, that in response to that du'a of yours, Allah is going to send 10 blessings upon you.

The Blessings of Sending Salawat Upon the Prophet

And in response to that dua of yours, Allah is going to elevate your status in Jannah by 10 levels. And in response to that dua of yours, Allah is going to forgive 10 sins of yours. Imagine how blessed he is, that as soon as we say, صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ (Sallallahu ala Muhammad), صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ (Sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam), or any other salawat, that this is the outpour of blessings from Allah towards us, and our families.

Your sins will be forgiven, your worries will be taken care of, if you send abundant salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ. So this is something, that we can inshallah incorporate in our homes, with the hope that the love of Allah and His Rasul enters the hearts of every member of our family.

Studying the Sacrifices of the Prophet

Naturally along with that, is to read and study the sacrifices of the Prophet ﷺ, for the ummah. Just last night here, Alhamdulillah, we started this book on Thursday nights. Last night we started it. It's called, The Sacrifice, The Legacy of Our Beloved Prophet ﷺ. An amazing book written by one of our friends, Shaykh Tamim. A collection of different hadith, that speaks about Rasulullah ﷺ sacrifice for the ummah.

It's so important to read, because if we do not know what he did for us, naturally we don't feel as inclined to love him, and care for him as much as we should. So it's recorded. Every Thursday night, we're gonna have like 5-7 minutes of reading from here, along with our salawat gathering, where we send salutations upon the Prophet ﷺ. Whether you're able to make it in person or not, but at least listen in, and you can possibly find this in the bookstore downstairs.

But this is something, another way to create love for Rasulullah ﷺ in the heart, is when we know his stories. Stories, very important to know these stories. Children remember stories. We remember stories. That's why Allah mention stories in the Qur'an.

The Hadith of Love and Companionship

So going back to the hadith. So Anas رضي الله عنه said, there was nothing that made us more happy than this. That Rasulullah ﷺ said, you're gonna be with the one who you love. At that occasion, Anas said:

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 3688)

I love Nabi ﷺ. And I love Abu Bakr. And I love Umar رضي الله عنه. And I hope to be raised with them, because of my love for all of them. Even though I have not done the actions like they have.

Who's saying this? Anas رضي الله عنه, the khadim and the attendant of the Prophet ﷺ. We get so excited if we see some famous person, and we take a selfie and post it everywhere. And we for the next 10 years, we say, oh I met a famous person at the airport. I met a famous person at the train station. I met a famous person at a conference for 5 seconds, 2 seconds.

يا إخوان, الله أكبر. Imagine if you can, subhanAllah, see the Prophet ﷺ in your dream. How happy you'd be today if you saw the Rasul ﷺ in your dream. And for those of you who have seen him, even if it was 15, 20 years ago, you can still taste the sweetness and the honor of seeing him in your dream 20 years later.

But imagine you didn't see him in a dream, you saw him in person. Not once, not twice, but you're the personal attendant, khadim of the Prophet ﷺ for 10 years. Not 10 moments, not 10 hours, not 10 days, not 10 months, 10 long years. There you go is, Anas رضي الله عنه. But he's saying, the happiest moment for me is hearing the fact that even though I may not have the actions of Rasulullah ﷺ of course, and not the actions of Abu Bakr and Umar, and all the rest of the Sahaba. But he says that, because of my love for all of them, I hope to be with them on the Day of Judgment.

The Importance of Loving the Sahaba

This is something my beloved friends, we must impart to our children and ourselves. That stop thinking Sahaba are irrelevant. Honestly, I don't even know why I have to say this, but I'm saying it because it's a need. Because I hear stuff like that. Where people say, Brother, we love your talk. Other speakers, they speak useless things. I said, really, what did they say? Oh, they speak about the Sahaba. A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem. Really? Check your iman, ya ikhwan. You check your iman. How can you say speaking about the Sahaba, they're gone. Finished, now we're in 2023. We gotta speak about relevant.

A brother saw the library yesterday, he was amazed. But then he asked me a question. Honestly, subhanAllah, in his innocence, he says, beautiful library, but how is this relevant to the world today? How is this relevant? How do you answer questions of the world? This is what social media does to you. It fries your brain and makes you illogical. How can you provide any solution to anyone, if you don't have ilm?

But what has social media made us believe? What has shorts on YouTube and TikTok made us believe? That books are useless. Studying is useless. Picking up a book and reading through the chapters is useless. The best way to become an educator and to become a knowledgeable person is to go watch some influencer online, listen to a few talks, and then regurgitate that and use some good nice examples of popular culture, and there you go.

This is the haqiqah. It's like I said, where do I even begin to answer you, ya ikhwan? Where do I begin to figure out, how do I sit down and deconstruct your completely flawed approach to the world? Although this brother was a very famous person, apparently online, but innocently very confused, that thinking ilm is useless.

Our Salvation Lies in Following the Salaf

So that same confusion is saying sahaba useless, awliya useless, anyone of the salaf useless. We have to speak about current times. And what is current times? Current times is shaitan, dajjal. This is current times. We must take inspiration from this nonsense and leave out what's out there.

This is what you have to combat at home, to say no. There's no two opinions about this. There is absolutely no two ways around this. Our salvation lies with Allah, with Rasul, with the sahaba رضي الله عنهم أجمعين, and the teachings of the salaf. All the way till today, whoever is rightly guided on the path of the earliest predecessors, that's who we hold on to. There's no such thing as they're outdated. Absolutely not.

You cannot. If the mathematical equations were not solved seven, eight, nine hundred years ago, and the earliest foundations of mathematics that was placed 2,000 years ago, if that wasn't done, you wouldn't have anything here. You wouldn't have no computer, you wouldn't have a smartphone, you wouldn't have satellites. How could you go sit there and throw away 2,000 years of knowledge to say now we're in a different era? The only reason we're in this era, advancements, is because the work has been done consistently.

More than that, if you do not have sahaba, you do not have Rasulullah's advice, you don't have the sunnah, there's no way going anywhere. So this is the discussion we should have at home. Dear boys and girls, as much as we don't know enough about the sahaba, we get that, we gotta learn that. But please, you have to understand, at least have love.

To say, I don't know much about my nabi. I don't know much about my sahaba. I don't know anything. But deep down, I know I'm supposed to love them more than anything else. And so I force myself, I tell myself, I say, Ya Allah, in my heart of all hearts, I say to you, I love you, and I love your nabi, and I love the sahaba of my prophet, I love the Ahlul Bayt, the family of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

At least say this, and say, Ya Allah, although I don't have the actions at all to meet anyone of them, but because of my love for them, please raise me with them. And this is something we should bring about alive in the discussions at home.

The Story of Umar and the Gutter

And one final story just about love. Umar رضي الله عنه, on a day like this, Allahu Akbar, ameerul mu'mineen, going to masjid an-nabawi to go lead the juma'ah salah. As I'm coming here, I was reading the story, I was like, wow. He's coming to lead, ameerul mu'mineen coming to lead the juma'ah salah.

And he passes by a gutter that was, you know, coming out of the upper floor. The gutter was right by his pathway on the way to masjid an-nabawi. What happened? Abbas رضي الله عنه, the uncle of Rasul صلى الله عليه وسلم, had just slaughtered some chickens. And the blood from the chickens, mixed with whatever water, went down the gutter. Blood from chickens. And it fell onto the clothing of ameerul mu'mineen Umar al-Khattab رضي الله عنه.

He went back home. He changed his clothes. And then went for lead salah. And then said, please remove this gutter from here. It's in the path of the people. So look what happened to my clothes. So he ordered someone to remove this gutter.

Abbas رضي الله عنه comes to ameerul mu'mineen Umar رضي الله عنه. And he says, o ameerul mu'mineen, this gutter that you just asked to be removed, this gutter was placed, this spot was placed, by who? By the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when he was alive.

He said, what? إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ He said, okay. I am gonna go back to where that spot was. Abbas, I want you to stand on my back. No ladder here. No servants here. I want you to stand my back. And I want you to put the gutter right back where the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had placed it.

How is it possible that I change something which the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had put in place? This is a man who we all know and look up to, ameerul mu'mineen. But this is what you talk, don't you think he had basira, don't you think he had wisdom, don't you think he had hikmah. But look at the level of adherence to the sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.

Not something he told us to do, that you have to put a gutter here. It was a simple action of his. He placed it. But that's it. The sahaba reached who they were because of their absolutely blind love for Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم, which we are missing out today.

The Consequence of Turning Away from the Sunnah

We have every single, you know, back-end explanation for this and for that, and a loophole for this and a loophole for that. And this is why, no matter how much we want, and no matter how many institutions we build, and masajids we grow, our honor in the eyes of the people of the world continues to go down. And the status of ours in the eyes of Allah also continues to go down. We don't see any type of growth the way we should.

And when you and I turn our back to the sunnah of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم, we cannot expect anything besides disgrace in this world and in the next.

Conclusion and Du'a

I ask Allah عز وجل to truly allow these words to wake my soul up, wake all of our souls up. And may He make you and I from amongst those who are true lovers of Allah, His Rasul, the sunnah of Rasul صلى الله عليه وسلم, the sahaba, and make all of our children in the same manner, lovers of Allah and Rasul, the sahaba and the sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. May He use every one of us to revive the sunnah wherever we may be.

SubhanAllahi wa Bihamdihi wa Subhanakallahi wa Bihamdik. We bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and we ask forgiveness and we repent to Him.

Announcements

Inshallah, let us stand up, complete the saf in front of you before performing your sunnah. Please pass the donation boxes from the left of the masjid to the right. Donate generously. And remember that any sadaqah given on the day of Jum'ah is greater in reward than any other day as mentioned in the hadith. May Allah alleviate your issues and difficulties both in this world and the next. Make niyyah of that as we give sadaqah on the blessed day of Jum'ah.

We have a few announcements. Please do not park in the condo's parking lot. They are being honest and keep on asking us to remind our community. Please do not park on the curbs. Be cooperative with our parking crew. Additionally, we have, alhamdulillah, amazing programs happening this weekend here at Masjid Darussalam.

The Importance of Islamic Education

Additionally, Sunday school, there are still spots open. And I request you to please encourage your family and friends to attend and benefit. Just two days ago, I was in that hall there, and a boy was young, 11th, 12th grader, was not performing salah. And a brother came and said, "Brother, namaz started, why aren't you praying?" And immediately he just responded by saying, "I don't know how to pray." So I didn't know who this was, so I told one of the students, please make ikram of him, take him downstairs, give him some food, and talk to him and whatnot. He is a Muslim, born Muslim with a Muslim name, attends our local public school, said this was his first time in the masjid. He was waiting for someone, and does not know how to pray.

How many people right around us in our own subdivisions are like that? So Sunday school is at the very least a place where we can encourage those boys and girls to come. So I'm imploring all of you to please reach out to your neighbors and try to get their daughters and sons to at least once a week attend the Sunday school program that is taught by our ulama and alimas and graduates of our program. So it's a unique, good program that you have educated people in the deen, who are born and raised here, who can connect with the kids of our community and teach them, inshAllah. So that's the Sunday school program.

Upcoming Events and Programs

Aya E. Elgin has a fundraising dinner Saturday, November 4th at Shalimar Banquets. Saturday, November 4th, the volunteers are here selling tickets. Please purchase their tickets, the fundraiser, and support this madrasa and this masjid as well, inshAllah.

And then we have our Sira conference two weeks from now, October 13th and 14th. And this year we have something unique. We have a parallel women's retreat. Parallel women's retreat from the beginning to end. All of it will be led by our female scholars of Darussalam. It's an amazing opportunity for our girls, our daughters, and our wives to be able to see some good examples in front of them. From A to Z the entire retreat is going to be led by sisters, for the sisters' side. And that's on the same weekend, October 13th and 14th. Please pick up a flyer on the way out. Register for free.

Salawat Initiative

We have a 25 million salawat goal for this month. I just spoke about salawat in the khutbah, in the talk, so let's put it into action. On the way out, pick up a salawat card, and encourage your family and friends all to do at least a couple thousand a day, short salawat. By the time the Sira conference ends, we'll hope to have reached our goal and outdo what we did last year. Alhamdulillah, last year over about four weeks, we were able to do as a community around 74 million salawat. So this year, we'll start off with 25, and hoping Allah will grant us also more than what we did last year.

Requests for Du'a

And lastly, two requests for du'a. Sister Alia Begum is sick, requesting for du'a of shifa, and we have Amia Nadeem, who is facing a health challenge. 16 years old, and she is on a ventilator. We ask all of you, her father is here as well, asking everyone to please make lots of du'a of shifa.

Khutbah

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. There is no god but Allah. Praise be to Allah, we praise Him, we ask His help and we ask His forgiveness and we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and from the evil of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him, and whosoever He leads astray, none can guide him. And we bear witness that there is no god but Allah, One and no partner to Him. And we bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger.

Allah Almighty said in the Glorious Quran: Say, "If you love Allah, follow me, Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful."

I say this and ask Allah forgiveness for me and you and for the rest of the Muslims from every sin. So ask His forgiveness, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

Second Khutbah

Praise be to Allah, and sufficient is the prayer and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah.

Allah Almighty said: Verily Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who have believed, send blessings upon him and give him peace.

O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our Master Muhammad and upon the family of our Master Muhammad. And bless and send peace. And may Allah be pleased with all the companions and companions and those who follow them with good till the Day of Recompense.

Allah Almighty said: O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared, and do not die except as Muslims.

O servants of Allah, may Allah have mercy on you. Verily Allah commands justice and good, and to give to those near to Him, and forbids immorality, and evil, and transgression. He warns you that you may remember.

And remember Allah, the Most High, the Most Great. He remembers you, and calls upon Him, and responds to you. And remember Allah, the Most Great. And Allah knows best what you do. And establish prayer.

Call to Prayer and Post-Prayer Dhikr

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to success. Prayer has been established, prayer has been established. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. There is no god but Allah.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah, Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. I seek forgiveness from Allah, I seek forgiveness from Allah, I seek forgiveness from Allah who there is no god but Him. O Allah, You are Peace and from You is peace, blessed are You, possessor of majesty and honor. O Allah, help me in Your remembrance, Your gratitude, and excellent worship of You. O Allah, forgive me and have mercy on me and accept my repentance, indeed You are the Oft-Returning, the Generous.