29/09/2022
Some of the golden opportunities we have in Jumuah.
Capture the 5 of the 5 in Jumuah (Friday).
Friday, the best day in the week, starts at the maghrib of Thursday. Every single minute of it is so precious and it has only 5 calls for prayers (adhan). There are 5 merits and virtues attached to each one including the call for maghrib prayer on Thursday.
Try your best to be in the masjid during these adhans and capture the 5 merits:
1) repeat what the adhan says; statement by statement.
2) send Salah and Salam upon the prophet peace be upon him.
3) Ask Allah to grant the prophet peace be upon him alwaseelah and alfadheelah ( the highest rank of paradise) that the prophet hoped that it is for him.
4) Repeat this duaa : I testify that there is no true god except Allah Alone; He has no partners and that Muhammad (ﷺ) is His slave and Messenger; I am content with Allah as my Rubb, with Muhammad as my Messenger and with Islam as my Deen.
Your sins will be forgiven according to the hadith of sahih Muslim.
5) Make any other duaa as it is very likely to be answered according many narrations.
Don't miss these virtues and merits for every single adhan starting the maghrib of Thursday.
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A very good habit to have in the evening of your Friday. *****
One of the early scholars said: “Whoever’s Jumu’ah is in order (i.e. good and islamicly sound and productive), the rest of his/her week will be similar to it”.
Number of the distinguished early pious people used to reserve the evening of Fridays for remembering Allah and Duaa.
For example, when al-Mufadhdhil ibn Fudhalah would perform ‘Asr on Friday, he would seclude himself in one corner of the masjid and would subsequently engage in du’a until the sun would set.
[Akhbar al-Qudhat]
Similarly, when Tawus ibn Kaysan would perform ‘Asr on Friday, he would face the qiblah [engaging in worship] and would not converse with anyone until the sun would set.
[Tarikh Wasit]
One of the righteous people of the past would say: “I did not supplicate a single du’a to Allah between ‘Asr and Maghrib on Friday, except that my Lord answered me, to such an extent that I became shy.”
Ibn Asakir, an authore from the sixth hijra century, mentions in his book: “Al-Salt ibn Bustam, one of the righteous people, was afflicted with blindness, so his brothers sat down and began making du’a for him at the time of ‘Asr on Friday. As sunset approached, al-Salt sneezed, and his sight returned.”
[Tarikh Dimashq]
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) states: “This hour (of answering Duaa) is the final hour after ‘Asr. Every religious community attaches great importance [to it].”
[Zad al-Ma’ad, 1/384]
When the well known scholar, Sa’eed ibn Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him), performed ‘Asr on Friday, he would not converse with anyone until the sun had set – implying that he would be preoccupied with du’a.
[Zad al-Ma’ad, 1/382].
Sisters can apply this as much as they can by sitting in the place where they performed their Asr prayer at home.
Remember that the best general thikr and rememberce of Allah on Friday is sending Salah and Salam upon the prophet peace be upon him.
