Ways to increase Barakah in your Home
Barakah is a word we hear often, but sadly we have lost it in our homes, to the level we find no barakah in time, our sustenance, nor our wealth and children. So what then is the key to attaining barakah?
🔑 Here are 8 keys to increasing barakah:
1-Tilaawah of the Quraan
قال الله تعالى
(وهذا كتاب أنزلناه مبارك)
Allah ﷻ has made the Quraan al Kareem a source of barakah, so we should always try to find time to recite it, ponder over its meaning and to live our lives according to its teachings. And it's for this reason our beloved Messenger ﷺ said about the home in which Quraan is recited:
(تسكنه الملائكة تهجره الشياطين ويتسع بأهله ويكثر خيره).
"The malaaikah live in it, the devils flee from it and it expands for the family and goodness increases in it."
2-Saying Bismillah and making the Dhikr of Allah
قال رسول الله صل الله عليه وسلم
إذا دخل الرجل بيته فذكر الله تعالى عند دخوله وعند طعامه، قال الشيطان
لأصحابه لا مبيت ولا عشاء
The Messenger ﷺ said: "If a man enters his home and he mentioned Allahs name upon entering and at the time of eating, Shaytaan says to his companions,'There is no home nor food for you here.'"
3-Sadaqah
From the means of attaining barakah in a home is to give sadaqah, especially secret sadaqah because it extinguishes the anger of Allah ﷻ.
4-Maintaining family ties
And indeed our Messenger ﷺ has informed us that maintaining family ties, and observing good character increases our sustenance and lengthens our lives.
5-Waking up early to search for your rizq
جاء في الحديث (بورك لأمتي في بكورها) أي الخروج لطلب الرزق
باكرا" .
It is mentioned in a Hadith:
"Give glad tidings to my Ummah in the early parts of the day"
Which means- those who leave their homes to search for their rizq in the early parts of the morning.
6-Establishing Salah in its fixed times is a means of attaining barakah
، قال الله تعالى
«وأمر أهلك بالصلاة واصطبر عليها لا نسألك رزقا "نحن نرزقك والعاقبة للتقوى»
Allah ﷻ says: And enjoin As-Salat (the prayer) on your family, and be patient in offering them
[i.e. the Salat (prayers)].
We ask not of you a provision: We provide for you. And the good end (i.e. Paradise) is for the Muttaqun.
7-Putting our trust in Allah ﷻ as He should be trusted
«لو توكلتم على الله حق توكله لرزقكم كما يرزق الطير، تغدو خماصا"وتروح
بطانا"»
As is mentioned in a Hadith:
"If you trust Allah as He should be trusted , He will sustain you as he provides for the birds, they leave hungry in search for food and return full."
8-Making lots of Istighfaar
(Asking for forgiveness and saying Astaghfirullah)
And Istighfaar on its own is a means of increasing our sustenance, just as the Prophet ﷺ said:
كما قال نبينا صلى الله عليه وسلم
«من لزم الاستغفار جعل الله له من كل ضيق مخرجا " ومن كل هم فرجا" ورزقه من حيث لا يحتسب»
"Whoever makes Istighfaar Allah will make a way out of every difficult situation for him, and He will ease his sorrow, and He will sustain him from where he perceives not."
متعنا الله وإيّاكم بالبركة والرضا
May Allah ﷻ bless us all with lots of barakah and contentment in our homes and lives Ameen.
