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Dear brothers and sisters because we expect to see more snow in this week than we've seen in years

In Dallas and it's not going to feel like Dallas

I figured what better time to talk about a du'at than involve snow

So that we can reflect on it and sha'Allah ta'ala and my hope is that as you see the snow over the next week or the hail or the

The wintry mix that you'll think about this du'at and be in the lahu ta'ala you'll make it and I was curious about it to be honest with you when someone actually asked me about this du'at as we

As we supplicate it as we are putting people in the grave

And it is where the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says waghsilhu bilmahi wa thalji wa l-barat

O Allah wash him or her with water, snow and hail

Someone asked me and said what does that even mean? Why did the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say water, snow and hail

And we also find that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to use this supplication

When speaking about the cleansing of the heart to wash the heart bilmahi wa thalji wa l-barat and somebody who I asked the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

Be ma'ethalji wa l-barat which means the water of snow and hail and sometimes he would say sallallahu alayhi wa sallam water, snow and hail separating

The three of them out and so insha'Allah t-tada want to mention five deep meanings that we find that the scholars elaborated on

For the usage of this because we usually talk about the degrees of distance that the heart senses from Allah s-sa'Allah

So we talk about the sick hearts

Rana ala kulubi him the stained heart

Waqa alu kulubina gulf the closed heart we talk about alaqal bilmahi it the dead heart we talk about distance

But there are also different levels of purification

To bring one closer to Allah s-sa'Allah

And so one of these du'a's and it comes in different variations the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say O Allah wash away my sins with the water of snow and hail and cleanse my heart from sin

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