❞ كتاب The Best Provision to the Day of Judgment ❝ ⏤ حكم بن عادل زمو العقيلي

INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................... 7
PREFACE ............................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
SECTION 1 .............................................................................................................13
DEEDS WITH SPECIFIED BENEFITS ...........................................................................13
1. DEEDS RELATED TO PRAYER:.........................................................................................13
A- Deeds performed before prayer:......................................................................13
B- Deeds related to Masjid (Mosques):.................................................................14
C- Sunnah of Forenoon prayer (Al-duha prayer): ..................................................21
D- Night Prayer (Qiyam prayer):............................................................................21
2. DEEDS RELATED TO FASTING:........................................................................................22
A-General voluntary fasting:....................................................................................22
B-Fasting Ashura:.....................................................................................................23
C- Fasting the six days of Shawwal:..........................................................................23
D- Fasting the Day of ‘Arafa: ....................................................................................24
3. TIMES AND PLACES IN WHICH REWARDS ARE DOUBLED AND SUPPLICATIONS (INVOCATIONS) ARE
ACCEPTED: .....................................................................................................................24
A- Times in which rewards are doubled and supplications are accepted:.................24
B- Places in which rewards are doubled and supplications are accepted: ................28
4. MEETING OF REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH:.........................................................................30
5. REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH:..........................................................................................31
A- Glorification and praising of Allah and saying, “La ilaha ill-Allah (none has the right
to be worshipped but Allah)”:..................................................................................32
B- Saying, “La llaha illa-Allah (There is no god but Allah)”: ....................................33
C- Saying: “Subhan-Allah-al-Adhim wa bihamdihi (Glory be to God, All Praise be to
Him, Glory be to God The Great)”:...........................................................................33
D- Saying, “Subhanallahi wa bihamdihi (Glory be to God and All Praise be to Him)”:33
E- Saying, “Subhan allah, al-hamdu lillaah, laa ilaaha illallaah, allaahu akbar (Glory be
to God, All Praise be to God, there is no god but Allah and God is Great)”:..............34
F- Saying, “Glory be to God, and All Praise be to Him according to the entirety of His
creation and according to the pleasure of His Self and according to the weight of His
Throne and according to the ink of the words praising Him”: ..................................34
G- Saying, “'La llaha illa-Allahu wahdahu la sharika lahu, lahul-mulku wa lahul-hamd
wa huwa 'ala kulli shai'in qadir (There is no god but Allah, He has no partner, to Him
belongs the Kingdom, and for Him all praise is due, and He has power over all things)”:
34
6. EXPIATION OF ASSEMBLY:............................................................................................36
7. FEAR OF ALLAH:........................................................................................................36
8. SAYING, “SUFFICIENT IS ALLAH FOR ME” WHEN ONE’S SON IS DEAD: ......................................37
A- The House of Praise:............................................................................................37
B- The Reward of a person losing two or three children: .........................................38
9. OBEDIENCE OF THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD (PEACE &BLESSINGS UPON HIM): .........................38

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10. SAYING, “PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD”:...............40
11. SOME SUPPLICATIONS AND THEIR SUPERIORITIES:...........................................................41
A- Supplication at Bed-Time: ...................................................................................41
B- Supplication When one is in Debt and Distress:...................................................42
12. RECITING QURAN:..................................................................................................42
A-Learning Tajweed (intonation) is compulsory:......................................................44
13. MEMORIZING QURAN AND THE SUPERIORITY OF SOME SURAH (CHAPTERS):..........................44
SECTION II.............................................................................................................45
DEEDS WITH UNRESTRICTED BENEFITS. (GOOD DEEDS WHOSE BENEFITS REACH OTHERS IN
LIFE AS WELL AS THE LAST DAY)..............................................................................45
1. CHARITY: ................................................................................................................45
2. THE VIRTUE OF GIVING FOOD AND PROVIDING AN EVENING MEAL FOR THE FASTING PERSON:........48
3. THE RIGHTEOUS PARENTS:...........................................................................................49
4. DEEDS WHOSE BENEFITS REACH THE DEAD MAN AFTER HIS DEATH:.........................................50
A- The righteous son:............................................................................................50
B- Useful Knowledge: ...........................................................................................51
C- Running Charity:..................................................................................................53
5. SMILING IN FRONT OF OTHERS: .....................................................................................54
6. GIVING GIFTS:..........................................................................................................54
7. THE RIGHTS OF A MUSLIM UPON HIS BROTHER:.................................................................55
A- Peace Greeting and Returning the Greeting: ....................................................55
B- Reply to the one who Sneezes:.........................................................................56
C- Visiting the sick: ...............................................................................................57
D- Following the funeral procession:.....................................................................57
H- Helping the oppressed Muslim in truth: ...........................................................57
8. REMOVING HARM AND CLEANLINESS:.............................................................................59
9. GIVING TIME TO THE PERSON WHO CAN PAY HIS DEBT AND RELEASING THE PERSON WHO CAN’T PAY HIS
DEBT: ...........................................................................................................................59
10. CALLING TO ALLAH:................................................................................................60
11. GUIDING PEOPLE TO ISLAM AND THE AUTHENTIC SUNNAH:...............................................61
12. WOMAN’S OBEDIENCE TO HER HUSBAND: ....................................................................62
13. SUPPLICATIONS WHICH BENEFITS A MAN AND HIS FAMILY:................................................63
14. VISITING AND LOVING FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH:.............................................................63
15. SOCIAL COLLABORATION DEEDS: ................................................................................64
A-Orphan guardianship:...........................................................................................64
B- Taking care of widows and needy people: ........................................................65
16. KINDNESS TO ANIMALS:...........................................................................................65
17. FIGHTING AND STANDING GUARD FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH (JIHAAD): ..................................66
18. GOOD MANNERS A MUSLIM SHOULD FOLLOW:..............................................................69
A- Good morality: .................................................................................................69
19. FORGIVENESS:.......................................................................................................80
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................85

“By Al-'Asr (the time) {1} Verily! Man is in loss, {2} Except those who believe (in Islâmic Mo-
notheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth (i.e. order

one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma'rûf ÇáãÚÑæÝ) which Allâh has or-
dained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar ÇáãäßÑ) which Allâh

has forbidden), and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and
injuries which one may encounter in Allâh's Cause during preaching His religion of Islâmic
Monotheism or Jihâd, etc.). {3}” ( Al-‘Aser).
We praise him and seek his assistance and forgiveness. I bear witness that there is no god
worthy of worship besides Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and
Messenger. May Allah bestow His peace and blessings upon Prophet Muhammad, his pure
family, his noble companions and those who follow them in righteousness until the Day of
Judgment.
One of Allah’s bounties upon us is that He decreed for us duties which are the pillars of
the religion and its base. Muslims who abide with these duties have completed their tasks,
and those who fall short of the obligatory deeds are more prone to fall short of others.
Performing the duties in the correct way leads Muslims to Paradise and takes them out of
darkness into light. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) had
said: “The first thing for which the servant (of God) shall be called to account in the Day of
Judgment is the prayer. If it was good , all of his work was good , but if it was bad , then all
of his work was bad , and if his duty is incomplete , then Allah , The Almighty , says check
my worshipper’s voluntary work and take from it and complete what is missed of his duty
and so all of his duties will be like this.” Thus, voluntary and good deeds complete the
incomplete work, and in addition, there is great reward for those who perform them. Al-

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though the voluntary work is easy to perform, the corresponding reward is great.
My Muslim sisters and brothers if you want your work to be accepted by Allah and gain
rewards, there are specific conditions for each work.
The first condition: the intention. Omar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard
the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Deeds are only
according to intentions and everybody will have according to his intentions.” (Agreed

upon). Any Muslim whose deeds and intentions are completely pure to Allah free of hypo-
crisy and dissimulation Allah will accept his deeds.

The second condition: good deeds should be performed according to God’s decree

and his Messenger’s guidance. Furthermore, any action that similar to actions of the disbe-
lievers and the People of the Book, it will not be accepted. In addition, actions that are

innovated or performed to satisfy personal desires will not be accepted.
The hypocrite’s deeds are rejected because his intention is corrupted, and he is in the
lowest depth of the fire. Allah, The Almighty, says:

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“Verily, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depth (grade) of the Fire; no helper will you
find for them”. {145} (An-Nisa’)
Similarly, deeds which are innovated are rejected because the deeds are corrupted even
if the intention is right as the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) said: “If anyone introduces in our matter something which does not belong to it, will
be rejected”. And he said: “Allah retain repentance of the man who practices innovation
until he abstains”. (Al Targheeb and Al Tarheeb by Shaykh Al Albany).
This book was written to benefit everybody, to gain the great reward from Allah, The
Almighty, to increase our good deeds and to elevate servants and get them closer to Allah.
Allah, The Almighty, says:
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“Verily, the Muslims (those who submit to Allah in Islam) men and women, the believers
men and women (who believe in Islamic Monotheism), the men and the women who are
obedient (to Allah), the men and women who are truthful (in their speech and deeds), the
men and the women who are patient (in performing all the duties which Allah has ordered

and in abstaining from all that Allah has forbidden), the men and the women who are hum-
ble (before their Lord Allah), the men and the women who give Sadaqat (i.e.Zakat and alms),

the men and the women who observe Saum (fast) (the obligatory fasting during the month
of Ramadan, and the optional Nawafil fasting), the men and the women who guard their
chastity (from illegal sexual acts) and the men and the women who remember Allah much
with their hearts and tongues. Allah has prepared for them forgiveness and a great reward
(i.e. Paradise)”.(Al-Ahzab 35)
in addition, by doing these good deeds a Muslim will get Allah’s support, victory and
guidance. Abu Hurairrah reported: the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah, the Exalted, has
said: ‘I will declare war against him who treats with hostility a pious worshipper of Mine.
And the most beloved thing with which My slave comes nearer to Me, is what I have

enjoined upon him; and My slave keeps on coming closer to Me through performing Na-
wafil (voluntary prayers or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory) until I love him,

(so much so that) I become his hearing with which he hears, and his sight with which he
sees, and his hand with which he strikes, and his leg with which he walks; and if he asks
Me something, I will surely give him, and if he seeks My Protection (refuge), I will surely
protect him.” (Al-Bukhari).
Finally, we ask Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-knowing and the Lord of the Supreme
Throne, to accept this work and achieve the benefit to every Muslim, Amen. Whatever good
presented in this book is from Allah and otherwise any mistakes are from myself and Satan
(May Allah curse him). Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be
on prophet Muhammad and on all the prophets of God as well as their righteous followers.

 A book contains sunnahs recommended acts scattered in a lot of books. It’s divided into two main sections. The first is concerned with good deeds that have specified rewards whose benefits are restricted to whoever performs them only. Examples of such good deeds are: praying sunnahs and performing ‘umrah. The second section is devoted to the deeds with unspecified benefits, i.e. the good deeds whose benefits reach others like the family, the neighbor or even the community in large. These benefits are achieved in this life as well as the Last Day. Giving charity and useful knowledge are examples of this group of good deeds.