´`Umar bin Al-Khattab said:` “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) taught me, saying: ‘Say: “O Allah, make my secret better than my apparent condition, and make my apparent condition righteous. O Allah, I ask You for the righteous of what you give to the people, of wealth, wives, and children, not (to be) misguided, nor misguiding. (Allāhummaj`al sarīratī khairan min `alāniyatī waj`al `alāniyatī ṣāliha. Allāhumma innī as’aluka min ṣālihi mā tu’tin-nāsa minal-māli wal-ahli wal waladi, ghairaḍ-ḍāli wa lal-muḍil).”
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation:
1:
O Allah! Make my inner self better than my outer self, and make my outer self righteous.
And from the wealth that You grant to people in the form of wives and children, grant the best wealth—those who are neither themselves misguided nor lead others astray.
Note:
(In the chain of narration, "Abu Shaybah" is a narrator whose identity is unknown [majhool].)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3586