30 Nov 2008

Why A llah is not answering our invocations (du'a)




A person asked Ibrahim Ibn Adham [may Allah have mercy on him][1], concerning the verse in which Allah [Mighty and Majestic is He] said,


'And your Lord said: 'Invoke Me, I will respond to your (invocation).” [Ghaafir 40:60]


'We make invocation (to Allah), but (why are) our invocations are not answered?'


Ibrahim ibn Adham [may Allah have mercy on him] replied,

§ “You know Allah, Yet you do not obey Him,

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You recite the Qur'aan, Yet do not act according to it,


§ You know Shaitaan (Devil), Yet you have agreed with him,


§ You proclaim that you love the Messenger of Allah [peace and blessing be upon him], Yet you abandon his Sunnah,


§ You proclaim your love for Paradise, Yet you do not act to gain it,


§ You proclaim your fear for the Fire, Yet you do not prevent yourselves from sins,


§ You say 'Indeed death is true', Yet you have not prepared for it,


§ You engage yourselves with finding faults with others, Yet you do not look at your faults,


§ You eat of that which Allah has provided for you, Yet you do not thank Him,


§ You bury your dead, Yet you do not take a lesson from it.”


Extracted from the book, ‘Khushu fee-Salaat’ by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali [RH]

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