You know better than I do. O Allah, forgive what I have done in earnest and in jest, inadvertently and deliberately; I am guilty of all these. O Allah, forgive what I have done and what I have yet to do, what I have concealed and what I have made public. You are my God (1); there is no god but You” (2).
He would say: “O Allah, place light in my heart, light in my hearing, light in my sight, light to my right, light to my left, light before me, light behind me, light above me, and light beneath me. Grant me light—or (3): make me light” (4).
He instructed that one strive earnestly in supplication during prostration, saying: “For then your supplication is likely to be answered” (5). Is this an instruction to engage frequently in (6) supplication during prostration, or an instruction that, if someone supplicates at a particular point, it should be (7) during prostration? There is a distinction between the two. The best interpretation of the hadith is that supplication is of two kinds: supplication expressing praise and supplication making a request; and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would frequently supplicate during