A Du’aa After Every Fardh Salaah...

“Allahumma a`inni ala zikrika, wa shukrika, wa husni `ibadatika” 

O Allah, help me remember You, to be grateful to You, and to worship You in an excellent manner …

We have to make Shukr to Allah for so many bounties. We are alive this morning, we are able to walk, we are able to speak, we are able to eat, we are able to see, we are able to move our limbs … All these are great bounties from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala … We have woken up this morning as believers! What a great Ni’mat from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala. A time will come when a person will sleep at night as a believer but will wake up in the morning as a disbeliever. Allah save us! We should continue to make sincere shukr to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala and recite this prescribed Du’aa everyday …

One day the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wa Sallam took Hadrat Mu’adh ibn Jabal’s (Radi Allahu Anhu) hand and said to him, “O Mu’adh, I love you.” Mu’adh responded, “May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Messenger of Allah (Peace & Blessings Be Upom Him), I love you (too).” Then the Prophet (Peace & Blessings Be Upon Him) said, “I advise you, O Mu’adh, say at the end of every prayer, ‘O Allah, aid me in Your remembrance, Your thanks, and in perfecting Your worship.”

(Related by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, an-Nasa’i, Ibn Khuzaimah, Ibn Hibban and al-Hakim)