Monday 22 December 2014

Some beautiful points about Du'a

6. Supplicate yourself:
On the authority of `Abdullaah bin Abu Saaleh: Once Tawoos paid me a visit me while I was sick and I said to him: O Abu `Abdul-Rahmaan! Supplicate to Allaah for me. So he said: “You supplicate for yourself, for He (Allaah تعالى) responds (more quickly) to those who are in distress when they pray to Him.” [Sifat al-Safwah of ibn al-Jawzee (1/454)]

7. When you feel your prayers are not being answered, then upon you is to do Tawbah and lots of Istighfaar:
`Alee bin Abu Taalib رضي الله عنه said: “A calamity does not descend except due to a sin, and it is not lifted except with repentance.” [al-Jawaab al-Kaafee (85)]
A man once complained to Hassan Al-Basri رحمه الله of drought and shortage of water. Hassan said to him: “Ask Allaah for forgiveness.” Another man complained of poverty, and his reply was:“Ask Allaah for forgiveness.” A third complained: “O Abu Saeed (Hassan Al-Basri), pray to Allaah that he bestow upon me a child for I am childless”, and he replied: “Ask Allaah for forgiveness.”The fourth one complained that his harvest had failed, and Hassan replied in the same way. So one of those who were sitting (in the gathering) said: “There came to you men with different complaints but you instructed them all to repent to Allaah and ask Him for forgiveness?” So Al-Hassan replied that Allaah says (in the Qur’aan):
﴿ فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاء عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا وَيُمْدِدْكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَارًا ﴾
{I (Nuh) said (to them): ‘Ask forgiveness from your Lord, verily, He is Oft-forgiving; He will send rain to you in abundance, and give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.} [Surah An-Nuh (71): 10-12]

8. Concentrate while supplicating:
Abu Bakr al-Shiblee said regarding the statement of Allaah تعالى:
﴿ادْعُونِى أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ﴾
{Invoke Me, I will respond to your (invocation)} [Surah al-Ghaafir (40): 60]
He (al-Shiblee) said: “Call Me without negligence, and I’ll respond to your (invocation) without limit.” [Shu`ab al-Imaan (1111)]

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