My Lord, I seek refuge in You from laziness and helpless old age | Since the dominion and the praise belongs exclusively to Him, we remind ourselves of a great reason for this, which is that He is able to do all things• Whenever we are taught to seek refuge in Allah from something, then we should realise this is a very bad thing that we should avoid |
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As we seek refuge in Allah from it, and we try to avoid it, we must ensure we seek refuge in Allah and try to avoid all things that prevent us from doing good e | None has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone, Who has no partner |
Hadith, reported in Sahih Muslim, hadith number 2723.
1True kingdom belongs to Allah alone | After affirming the kingdom belonging to Allah, we praise Him |
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We begin the supplication by affirming that the kingdom belongs to Allah, therefore He is the true King who has ownership over everything | After praising Allah for being our King, we negate any partners for Him, as this is the most complete form of Kingship, in that He is the one true Creator and King, who has no partners, and needs no partners• We seek refuge in Allah from laziness, and helpless old age, as both are preventions from doing good, so we want to save ourselves from anything that stands in the way between us and coming closer to Allah |
Learn from this supplication the best way to ask Allah something, which is to begin by praising Him before you immediately ask from Him what you want• This a deserving praise as we are happy and pleased that everything belongs to Him whilst He is the Just and Merciful creator, so we are living in a kingdom ruled by the King with these qualities, and this is something deserving of praise• The first half of this supplication consists wholly of the praise of Allah so that we increase our veneration of Him, and come closer to Him with good deeds before asking Him our need, which is what the second part of the supplication consists of•.
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