O Allah , our Lord, send down to us a table spread (with food) from the heaven to be for us a festival for the first of us and the last of us and a sign from You; and provide for us sustenance,and You are the Best of providers.”
Allaahumma rabbanaa anzil ‘alaynaa maaidatan minas-samaai takoonu lanaa ‘eedan li-awwalinaa wa aakhirinaa wa aayatan minka warzuqnaa wa anta khayrur-raaziqeen
Surah Al-Maida ,verse 114
This is the prayer of Prophet Isa Alaihissalaam
It can be recited for the following purposes.
- Increase in your sustenance
- To invoke Allah for His help and provision
Words-by-word meanings:-
Allah says in the Holy Quran:-
(112. (Remember) when Al-Hawariyun said: “O `Isa, son of Maryam! Can your Lord send down to us a Ma’idah from heaven” `Isa said: “Have Taqwa of Allah, if you are indeed believers.”) (113. They said: “We wish to eat thereof and to be stronger in faith, and to know that you have indeed told us the truth and that we ourselves be its witnesses. ”)
This is the story of the Ma’idah, the name of which this Surah bears, Surat Al-Ma’idah. This is also among the favors that Allah granted His servant and Messenger, `Isa, accepting his request to send the Ma’idah down, and doing so as clear proof and unequivocal evidence.
The Ma’idah is the table that has food on it. Some scholars said that the disciples requested this table because they were poor and deprived. So they asked `Isa Alaihissalaam to supplicate to Allah to send a table of food down to them that they could eat from every day and thus be more able to perform the acts of worship.
(`Isa Alaihissalaam, son of Maryam Alaihissalaam, said: “O Allah, our Lord! Send us from heaven a table spread (with food) that there may be for us — for the first and the last of us — a festival…”)
As-Suddi commented that the Ayah means, “We will take that day on which the table was sent down as a day of celebration, that we and those who come after us would consider sacred.” Sufyan Ath-Thawri said that it means, “A day of prayer.”
(and a sign from You. ) proving that You are able to do all things and to accept my supplication, so that they accept what I convey to them from You,
(and provide us sustenance,) a delicious food from You that does not require any effort or hardship,
“For You are the Best of sustainers.”
(115. Allah said: “I am going to send it down unto you, but if any of you after that disbelieves, then I will punish him with a torment such as I have not inflicted on anyone among the `Alamin.”)
So the angels brought the table down containing seven fish and seven pieces of bread and placed it before them. So the last group of people ate as the first group did.” Ibn Jarir recorded that Ishaq bin `Abdullah said that the table was sent down to `Isa Alaihissalaam ,son of Maryam Alaihissalaam, having seven pieces of bread and seven fish, and they ate from it as much as they wished. But when some of them stole food from it, saying, “It might not come down tomorrow,” the table ascended. These statements testify that the table was sent down to the Children of Israel during the time of `Isa Alaihissalaam, son of Maryam Alaihissalaam, as a result of Allah’s accepting his supplication to Him.
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