A while ago I received a pocket sized book from the mosque called Fortress of the Muslim - Invocations from the Qur'an & Sunnah. I've been looking through it a lot this summer and am amazed at how many different supplications and invocations there are... it's beautiful how Allah SWT has made everything so simple for us - if we only take the time to look. My favorite one so far is What A Muslim Should Say When He Is Praised, and subhan'Allah, while I was looking for the duaas typed up online I ran into Muslimology.org and the blogger has the same book AND scanned the duaas AND made a post on this very subject! So here's a snippet from that post and insh'Allah you will check out their website, too.
How a Muslim should praise another Muslim
If any of you praises a Muslim then let him say:
“I consider (such and such a person), and Allah is his Assessor,
wa laa uzakee ‘alallaahi ahadan
(meaning: and I cannot claim anyone to be pious before Allah) -if you know of this (good character trait in the person) to be such and such (saying what he thinks is praiseworthy in that person).” (Muslim 4/2296)
What a Muslim should say when he is praised
Allaahumma laa tu’aakhidhnee bimaa yaqooloona, waghfir lee maa laa ya’lamoona [waj'alnee khairam-mimmaa yadhunnoon].
Oh Allah, do not call me to account for what they say and forgive me for what they have no knowledge of [and make me better than they imagine].
(Al-Bukhari, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad no. 761. See Al-Albani, Sahih Al-Adab Al-Mufrad (no. 585). The portion between brackets is from Al-Baihaqi, Shu’ab Al-Iman 4/228, and comes from another account.)
I love the "and make me better than they imagine" part :) maan it's like Allah SWT is giving us some elbow room as we're keeping our egos in check.
Peace
3 comments:
I am definitely gonna check out that site!
man its been a while
nice post
lol actually reading it in arabic and looking at the transliteration is so different
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