Conditions for accepting supplication
Q: This remembrance and this supplication are weapons that you describe to every believer. Do you stipulate other conditions for those who carry this weapon?
A: Yes, among the greatest conditions is trust in God, belief in Him and His Messenger, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and belief that God is the truth, and he only says the truth, devotion to God, glory be to Him, and following His Messenger, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, with faith that the Messenger – may God’s prayers and peace be upon him – conveyed the truth, and he is truthful in what he says, and that he will come. This is based on faith and trust in God, and a desire for what He has, and that He, the Exalted, is the controller of matters and the disposer of things, and that He is capable of everything. Neither out of doubt nor out of mistrust, but out of good faith in God and trust in Him, and that when what is required fails, it is due to one of the aforementioned reasons or something else.
Medication may occur, but the disease does not go away for other reasons of which the servant is ignorant, and God is Wise in them, glory be to Him, Glory be to Him. The requested lags behind for many reasons, including heedlessness of God, Glory be to Him, and disobedience, especially eating the unlawful. There is no servant who supplicates to God with a supplication that does not involve sin or severing of ties of kinship, but that God will give him one of three things: Either his supplication will be hastened for him in this world, or it will be stored up for him in the Hereafter, or a similar evil will be diverted from him. They said, O Messenger of God, if we multiply He said: God is more.
Thus, the believer, male and female, knows that his response may be postponed to the Hereafter for reasons necessitated by the wisdom of God, Glory be to Him, and a great evil may be diverted from him by means of supplication instead of his request being granted, and God He is the All-Wise, All-Knowing in His actions, words, law, and decree, as the Almighty said: Indeed, your Lord is Knowing, Wise [الأنعام: 128]God grants success[1].
Medication may occur, but the disease does not go away for other reasons of which the servant is ignorant, and God is Wise in them, glory be to Him, Glory be to Him. The requested lags behind for many reasons, including heedlessness of God, Glory be to Him, and disobedience, especially eating the unlawful. There is no servant who supplicates to God with a supplication that does not involve sin or severing of ties of kinship, but that God will give him one of three things: Either his supplication will be hastened for him in this world, or it will be stored up for him in the Hereafter, or a similar evil will be diverted from him. They said, O Messenger of God, if we multiply He said: God is more.
Thus, the believer, male and female, knows that his response may be postponed to the Hereafter for reasons necessitated by the wisdom of God, Glory be to Him, and a great evil may be diverted from him by means of supplication instead of his request being granted, and God He is the All-Wise, All-Knowing in His actions, words, law, and decree, as the Almighty said: Indeed, your Lord is Knowing, Wise [الأنعام: 128]God grants success[1].
- These questions are selected from the program Noor on the Path, which is broadcast on Saudi radio](Collections of Fatwas and Articles of Sheikh Ibn Baz 3/447).
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