The fire in Jahanam will not touch the person who recites "Allahumma Ajirni Minan Nar" 7x after fajr & maghrib.
If you choose to RETWEET this, it will be a Sadqatul-Jaariya for you and me
(Abu Dawood)
I experienced something scary last night inside the Kaaba.
Yesterday, after ṣalāt ishāʾ, I was looking for a good spot inside the Masjid al-Ḥarām to pray my tarāwīḥ. The crowd was heavy because many people were performing their umrah at night, so finding space was somehow difficult. I decided to join the flow of people doing ṭawāf, hoping I would later find a place to stand and pray. As I walked, I found myself right behind a Yoruba sister.
She was cursing someone, not quietly, not casually, serious curses, in deep Yoruba expressions. I was honestly terrified listening to it. From what she was saying, I understood that someone had lied against her, and she had been unable to clear her name.
According to her words, the lie had brought her public humiliation and shame amongst the family.
She said in Yoruba, and I quote:
“Ọlọ́run w’ọlá pé mi ò ṣe nkan tí wọn pa irọ rẹ mọ́ mi yìí, w’ọlá pé irọ́ yìí sọ mí di ẹni yẹyẹ ninu family. Ọlọ́run bá mi fi (she mentioned the person’s name and her mother’s) sínú ìdàmú àti ìbànújẹ tí kò ní bọ n bẹ ayafi tó bá jẹ́wọ́ fún ẹgbọn mi pé irọ́ lóhun pa mọ́ mi.”
Translation “Allah, consider the fact that I never did what she said I did, consider the fact that this lies has brought me shame amongst the family, Allah, help me to put (she mentioned the person’s name and her mother’s) into struggle and sadness that she’ll never be able to free from except she confess to my elder brother that everything she said about me was lies”.
I never thought in my life I would see someone travel all the way from Nigeria only to pour curses on another person in the holiest place on earth.
And honestly, I was scared.
The Prophet ﷺ warned us to be careful about the supplication of someone who has been oppressed, because there is no barrier between that prayer and Allah. Even if she had made that supplication anywhere else, Allah could answer it. Now imagine saying it in front of the Kaʿbah.
I walked behind her for about a minute, and wallāhi, she did not say anything else, she only kept repeating the curse over and over again, that I had to slow a bit so she could move farther away from me and I would stop hearing her.
I could only hope and pray that the person she was cursing go back to the family and confess she lied, I could only hope.
May Allah help us to be fair and just with people, may Allah not make us source of sadness for people in an unjust way.
Amin.