format of dua after salat

[Fayyaz Ashrafi]

Assalam O Alaykum Imam Sahib

I hope this reaches you in the best of health insha allah

can you please tell me what format a dua straight after salat should take.....i.e. what we should read in arabic i.e. durood shareef and other duas and then ask for whatever we wish in our native language and how or what can we read to end the dua

i was told by a friend.....that it is good to start the dua with durood shareef and also to end it with durood shareef too

can you please tell what i can read and in what order...at the moment i read the dua "allahumma anthasalaamo wa minkussalaamo.... and rabbana aathina fi'duniya......can you give me some others please.....general ones

Jazakhallah

[Imam]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu



All Praise be to Allah who is the Lord of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most Beloved, and Final Messenger of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa 'aalihi wa Sallam



Jazak'allah for your valued question. In the hadith of the Beloved Messnger of Allah Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam, it states that after salah, the Messenger of Allah Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam would recite the following du'a:

'Allahumma antas salamu wa minkas salamu wa ilayka yarji'us salam, tabarakta ya dhal jalali wal ikram'

Some people make the additions of:

'hayyina rabbana bissalami'

and:

'wa adkhilna daras salam'

They are all fine according to their meaning, as is reciting darood shareef at the beginning and at the end of a du'a, however the du'a is regarded as the essence of worship. But sonme people will only stick to the sunnah, of not making any additions to it, and reciting what du'a is recorded in the hadith books alone.


This du'a is recited at the end of fard prayer, yet after the sunnah's and nafil's one is allowed to recite any du'a which he knows, and ask from Allah the Almighty in his native language. Some of the du'as are:

'Rabbana taqabbal minna innaka antas sami'ul'alim wa tub 'alayna innaka antat tawwabur Rahim'

'Rabbana innaka jami'un nasi li yawmil la rayba fih inallaha la yukhliful mi'ad'

'Allahumma innaka afuwun tuhibbu afwa fa'fu anna'

and:

'Allahumma la mani'a lima a'tayta wa la mu'ti lima mana'ta wa la yanfa'ukal jaddi minkal jadd'

Thus all the du'as that appear in the Qur'an al kareem and the hadiths, may be recited, and are usually recited, and they can be recited in any order. Some people say that to make du'a in your native language is more closer to acceptance, because it comes from the heart, and the heart knows what it wants. Some people say that to make du'a in 'Arabic' is more closer to acceptance because that was the language that the Most Beloved Messenger of Allah Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam taught the Noble Companions, and the Qur'an al kareem, which has a distinct mode in itself. However, the du'a should never be neglected, as Allah the Almighty says:

'ud'uni astajib lakum'

'Invoke on me, and I shall accept from you'

May Allah the Almighty give us all the tawfiq to supplicate, and make du'a from Allah the Almighty after every salah, and may our du'as be accepted in His presence. (Amin)



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab



M. Waseem Ashrafi

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