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does anyone read this book regular?
what is the significance of it?
thank you
It is the most comprehensive collection of durood.
My mother and I were discussing this just earlier today after Maghrib salaah, same question. I had the book in my hand and I told her that to get the maximum benefit of this book one needs to do at least 1 khatam per day. So she said, "You mean one manzil per day finish it once per week." I said, "No, it is ghanimat that we are doing 1 khatam per week, to send durood upon Huzoor salallahu alayhi wa sallam from our filthy tongue in itself is a great favor of Allah swt, but that is not the real method of reading this book. The musannif himself has said that one should do 1,2, or 3 khatms per day, or more. If not then do (such and such amount)". The author wants us to do 1,2,3 or even more khatams per day and the least is that a person should 1 khatam per week.
For those people who are just starting out on this book I recommend doing 1 khatam per week for several weeks until this book becomes easy to read and the passion to recite durood becomes stronger.
So she asked, "What are the virtues of doing 1 khatam per day?" I said, "The book title itself is titled "Dalail ul Khairaat", so just think about it yourself what do you think the virtues are? In fact, to even ascribe virtues to this book is not befitting to the honor of this book, the virtues are beyond our imagination."
So yes brother its nice to do 1 khatam per week and start there for a month or two but your goal is to do 1 khatam per day. It is very beneficial to do 1 khatam per day. Doing 1 khatam of this book per day also helps in islah e baatin very strongly.
This is the method to recite the book:
You will commence anytime Sunday after Maghrib. First make wudhu, make tawbah and astaghfar (because our tongue is dirty and filthy from telling lies, backbiting, all sorts of sins and durood is very pure and blessed, so we need to make tawbah and astaghfar for the sins of our tongue first before reading durood). If you have the flu and someone brings you your favorite dish you will probably eat it but you wont be able to enjoy its delicious taste because due to your illness your tongue cannot take in the flavor and deliciousness of the meal. So first get over your spiritual illness by making tawbah and some astaghfaar. You will not be able to spiritually taste the barakaat and anwaraat of durood as long as you are not over illness of sins.
Then you will say "Bismillahir rahmanir rahim" and after bismillah I like to add "Ya Allah Ya Fattah" this is just my personal practice it is your choice if you want to or not. Our buzrughs used to remember specifically the siffat of Fattah of Allah swt and say Ya Fattah when commencing a book so that with the blessed name of Allah swt Ya Fattah they can complete the book. This practice is long forgotten now a days.
Then turn to page 11 and begin the khutbah from there. Then after the khutbah at the end you will continue on and read what the musannif has written about why he wrote this book and what he titled it. Continue reading and on the following page you will read "Innallaha wa malaaikatuhu.... and at the end of this ayat the word "tasleema" comes at this point you will give a short pause. After this pause you will say "Labaik" and end it here.
Then you will turn to the Asma e Mubaarak the blessed names of Sayyidina Rasoolullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam and you will read those once. This will only be done the first time you open this book for the week, irregardless of how many khatams you do. If your book does not have the Asma Mubaaraka then dont worry about it just go to the first hizb of the book.
Afterwards you will start on page 50 and that is Mondays "hizb" or "manzil" or "chapter". The actual durood portion of the book start at page 50 and end at page 240 (meaning if you are reading the same version I have). On page 240 there are some poems and you should recite them how the musannif said to.
Either you can do the entire khatam in one sitting or two sitting or three sitting. The entire book takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to read. Initially it will take longer but the more you read it the more fluent you will become and the more durood you will memorize and you will be able to finish the entire khatam once in a good hour time.
After you do the khatam you should convey the reward to Imam Jazuli (ra) and to your parents, grandparents, relatives, asatidha teachers, mashaikh, ummat e muslima in general those who are alive and those who are passed away. This is a good system of conveying isaal e sawaab.
Then once khatam is done you can start another khatam. So it takes about 1 hour 15 minutes about to read the book from start to end. You can do several khatams in a week, the more khatam the better. In a short time you will be totally a lover of durood and it will become very fluent on your tongue. Finish the book as many times as you want, there is no limit to durood.
One of the quiet users on this forum, Nayyarsh had a very strong influence on me about this book and taught me the way to read it properly. The person who reads at least 1 khatam of Dalail ul Khairaat daily is titled "Shaikh Dalail ul Khairaat"
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