Request:
Salam to all the staff,
My name is [private], a school teacher and request prayer so that the Muslim teachers and my daughter are protected from the tyranny of the principal, [private]. She has been abusing the teachers at her own will (bully) and favours the non-Muslim teachers whenever any conflict arise. Because of this even the non-Muslim pupils dare to smear the Muslim teacher in the facebook under the name of racial sentiments. I pray this situation will end as soon as possible as the Muslim teachers could not tolerate with this principal anymore. Please pray for us that she leave this school and replace us with a fair leader. Thank you and wassalaam.
Response:
wa `alaykum salam,
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham is praying for you and yours. Recite this du`a:
which means:
O Allah! Guard me with Your sight that never sleeps!
Cover me with Your unfailing protection!
Save me with Your power over me!
Do not cause me to perish while I have You as my hope!
My Lord, how many favors have You lavished on me for which I thanked you little!
With how many tests have You tried me for which I have shown little endurance!
You for Whose favors I have little thanked, yet You did not deprive me!
You at Whose trials I showed little endurance, yet You did not fail me!
You Who saw me persisting in sins, yet You did not expose me!
You Whose favors can never be counted!
You Whose goodness is never interrupted!
Help me in my Religion with my worldly matters!
Help me in my Hereafter with Godwariness!
Guard me in all that I do not perceive!
Do not leave me to my soul in its vagaries!
You Whom sins in nothing harm and Whom forgiveness diminishes not!
Forgive me that which harms You not!
Give me that which diminishes You not!
All-Giver! I ask you quick deliverance, patient endurance, safety from all trials, and gratefulness for safety!
Imam al-Dhahabi narrated with his chain in Siyar A`lam al-Nubala’ that Ja`far al-Sadiq used this du`a to protect himself against the tyranny of al-Mansur who intended to kill him; but instead he gave him a lavish gift and let him go safely.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
