Ya Muqallibal Qulub Dua Meaning, Arabic, Hadith & Benefits

Ya muqallibal qulub dua is one of the prophet’s SAW most repeated duas. The Prophet SAW would always asked Allah to make his heart firm on His path. Let’s learn the meaning of this beautiful supplication.

Ya Muqallibal Qulub Dua in Arabic Text

The full dua is written in Arabic as:

يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ

Transliteration

The dua is transliterated as Ya Muqallibal-qulub, thabbit qalbee `alaa deenik.

Ya Muqallibal Qulub Meaning in English

Ya Muqallibal qulub means O Changer of the hearts make my heart steadfast in Your religion.

Ya Muqallibal Qulub Dua Hadith

Shahr bin Hawshab RA said: “I said to Umm Salamah RA ‘O Mother of the Believers! What was the supplication that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said most frequently when he was with you?”

She said: ‘The supplication he said most frequently was: Yā Muqallibal-qulūb, thabbit qalbī alā dīnik. She said: ‘So I said: “O Messenger of Allah, why do you supplicate so frequently: ‘O Changer of the hearts, make my heart firm upon Your religion.’

He said: ‘O Umm Salamah! Verily, there is no human being except that his heart is between Two Fingers of the Fingers of Allah, so whomsoever He wills He makes steadfast, and whomever He wills He causes to deviate.’”

[Jami at-Tirmidhi 3522. Book 48, Hadith 153. Authenticated by al-Albanee in al-Jaam’i as-Sagheer 1323/7988]

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Explanation

The verb qallaba points to constant moving upside down, turning around and about. The noun qulub is the plural of qalb meaning the heart, which is constantly changing.

The heart is always in movements. It cannot be still all the time and so a person has to try to settle it.

So you can imagine the movement of the heart. The more Iman a person has in the heart, the more he is able to settle it.

But the heart is always moving, and if you stop filling it with Iman or faith to keep it still, then it is evitable that it is going to turn.

And you will not be able to control the degree to which it turns and how far it will go or where it turns to. So settling the heart is extremely important.

The scholars mention that if you read about the companions, they took time to internalize the faith.

They understood the inconsistency of the heart, so they took time to internalize the faith.

Ibn Mas’ud, for example, says: “We used to read ten verses of the Quran, understand them, memorize them, apply them. And then we would move on to the next ten.”

Think about the Khawarij, the extremists that the Prophet (SAW) mentioned that they recite a lot of the Quran but it does not go beyond their throats.

You know there is a saying that the extremists are blinded by the light. They are not guided by the light. What happens if water keeps on boiling? It will evaporate, so there will be no Iman whatsoever.

So a person should slowly stabilize the heart rather than try to take it in too much because the Iman does not come in that fashion.

Iman grows gradually. You do not suddenly jump in and take it all in. A person has to make his heart consistent.

So there are two supplications from the Prophet (SAW) that are very similar and a person might think that they mean the exact same thing but there is a subtle lesson that we can take in the difference.

The first one is the most frequent supplication of the Prophet (SAW) that he would always say: O Turner of Hearts, make my heart firm on your path).

If the Prophet (SAW) made that Dua more frequently than any other Dua, what then for us?

Does the Prophet (SAW) fear hypocrisy? Does he fear that his heart will be turned in any other direction?

Subhanallah! What about us then if that was the most frequent Dua of the Prophet (SAW)? It should also be our most frequent supplication and we should increase it well beyond what the Prophet (SAW) used to say for our hearts are not like his heart.

This Dua is really to maintain your heart upon the path, longing for Allah and away from sins, so away from turning to that which displeasing to Him.

Ya Muqallibal Qulub Benefits

Steadfastness in religion is the conduct of great men, which cannot be acquired without the special Grace of Allah.

There occur many turns in a person’s life when he becomes slack or negligent in religious matters or when he deviates from the course prescribed by religion.

This prayer has outstanding importance for such people who are faced with such a situation.

They should recite this prayer very frequently. In fact they should make its recitation a permanent feature.