Abu Lahya explains a prayer technique where you repeat the same personal dua during each of the 34 daily prostrations in the five prayers. He says people who consistently pair their specific request—for exam success, a business launch, marriage—with sujood report getting what they asked for, turning the practice into a reinforcing habit.
There's another cheat code you talk about, right? Which is the sujood, dua and sujood cheat code.
So talk to us about this one.
Because I think most of the people, a lot of people who signed up to your program actually mentioned that this was one thing that really inspired them.
Yeah, it stood out to people. I don't know why. I said it on the go in one video and it stood out to people. So you see how we have 5 daily prayers. And if you count all the raka'ah that we have, 17 raka'ah from Fajr to Isha. Now each raka'ah has 2 sujoods. You have 34 sujoods a day. Another thing Allah (SWT) said, the moment you're the closest to Allah (SWT) is in sujood and that you have 34 sujoods a day. You basically have 34 4 opportunities every single day to ask the one who built everything to help you with any sort of problem you have. My advice for people is actually a tip, and I genuinely hope people take it from this podcast and spread it, because that would be the best sadaqah jariyah you can do. Anytime you're trying to achieve something new, trying to start a business, trying to get married, trying to make hijrah, anything you want to achieve, it could be even as small as just succeeding with your exams. Make a specific dua. Let's say it could be as simple as, oh, Allah, help me succeed with my exams, my math exams. It could be this. You know, you're really bad at math, and you're like, oh, Allah, please help me get 60% at math. Just this. And make it in every single prayer and every single sujud. Just this. Repeat it, repeat it. Continue doing it until it becomes a habit. And you'll catch yourself after a couple of weeks, a couple of months, depending on when Allah decides to accept your dua. You'll be saying it as a habit. Sometimes just a couple of days after that. You'd be saying it, it became a habit. And then you realize after saying it, wait, it's been granted already. And then you go from asking Allah to give you that thing to thanking Him for giving you this. And you'd catch yourself. Even, like I said, it could be with everything. Let's say you're trying to—
I've seen that myself. We spoke about it. I've seen that myself. Masha'Allah. That happened to me. And you're like, well, subhanAllah, I should be thanking him now because he gave it to me.
And I can even look back at my life and have checkpoints on my achievements. And I had each time a specific focus on one specific dua I was making. Whether it could be the school I wanted to get, whether it could be the job I wanted to get, whether it would be the business I wanted to start. Always there was a specific time when I was focusing on making this dua to Allah. And then I always caught myself. It was a habit. And then boom, please can I get X, Y, and Z to thank you, alhamdulillah, for giving me X, Y, and Z.
