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Unanswered Prayers
ABD
01/02/02 at 05:15:32
Assalamu Alaikum,

This is true for some cases...

Wassalamu Alaikum,
Betul


A famous saint and scholar from the pious "Salāf" named Ibrahim Ibn
Adham
(rahimahuLLāh) was once asked by his students about the verse were
Allah mentions:


"Call on Me, I will answer your prayer" (40:60)
And they asked:
'we supplicate (pray) but we are not answered.'

His reply was:

You know Allah, yet you do not obey Him.
You recite the Quran, yet you do not act according to it.
You know shaitān, yet you have agreed with him.
You proclaim that you love the messenger of Allah, yet you abandon
his sunnah.
You proclaim your long for paradise, yet you do not act to gain it.
You proclaim your fear the fire, yet you do not prevent yourselves
from sins.
You say: 'indeed death is true', yet you have not prepared for it.
You busy yourselves with finding the faults with others, yet you do
not look at your own faults.
You eat 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.

May Allah make it easy for us to reflect, and act upon these noble
and pious words and guide us towards the clear and pure following of
the Messenger's authentic sunnah in the light of the understanding
that we find within the pious predecessors as-salāf as-sālihīn, and
not to follow our own desires and understandings, ameen...


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