Du’aas(supplications) are being delayed/Not showing any effect???
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Allāhumma inni as’aluka min fadhlika(O Allāh, I ask you for Your benefaction)🤲
Supplication is one of the most beneficial remedies, it is the enemy of affliction, it fends it off and treats it, obstructs its befalling and uplifts it if it descends.
It is the weapon of the believer, as al-Hakim(1/669 [1812]) has collected in his Sahih on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talib(radhiyallahu anhu) who said:
‘The Messenger of Allāh(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: ‘Supplication is the weapon of the believer and the pillar of the religion and the light of the heavens and the earth.’”
There are three possible scenarios pertaining to supplication:
♦️One: It is stronger than the calamity, thus, it repels it.
♦️Two: It is weaker than the calamity, and so the calamity overpowers it and the servant is afflicted. However, the supplication can lessen the effect of the calamity, even slightly.
♦️Three: They combat each other, each cancelling out the other.
al-Hakim(1/669 [1813]) reports in his Sahih on the authority of Aisha(radhiyallahu anha) who said:
The Messenger of Allāh(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said to me: ‘Caution cannot evade the decree from occurring and supplication benefits in that which has descended and that which has not. Indeed, the calamity may befall and is met by a supplication causing them to both struggle against one another until the day of resurrection.’
Al-Hakim(1/670 [1815]) also reported on the authority of Ibn Umar(radhiyallahu anhu) who narrated that the Prophet(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said:
“Supplication benefits in that which has descended and that which has not, thus it is imperative upon you, O’ servants of Allāh, to supplicate.”
Also, on the authority of Thawban(1/670 [1814], also collected by Ibn Majah [4022], Imam Ahmad 37/68 [22386], Ibn Hibban [872]): “Decree is not repelled by anything other than supplication, none other than righteousness can increase lifespan, and certainly a man can be denied some provisions due to a sin he perpetrates.”
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🟥🔴💠The Reasons for a Delay or an Absence in the Effect of a Supplication👇
Bearing in mind, it is from the strongest means in repelling harm and attaining the desired objective. However, its effect can be delayed, either due to a weakness in the supplicant in that it is a supplication that is undesirable to Allāh due to its offensive content, or a weakness in the heart and a lack of devotion to Allāh as well as a scarcity of presence of heart at the time of supplication.
Thus, becoming like a flimsy bow that the arrow departs from in a feeble manner.
This failure to achieve a response to the supplication occurs due to a possible prevention being present, such as the consumption of unlawful products, oppression, the dark cover of sins over the heart, an overwhelming state of heedlessness, obliviousness or idleness and its suppression.
As it has been collected in the Sahih of al-Hakim(collected in al-Mustadrak 1/670-671 [1817] and At-Tirmidhi [3479]), on the authority of Abu Hurairah(radhiyallahu anhu) who narrates from the Prophet(sallallahu alaihi wasallam):
“Invoke Allāh, whilst you are sure of a response, and know that Allāh does not accept a supplication from a heedless and distracted heart.”
Also, the consumption of anything unlawful thwarts its strength and weakens it, as has been reported in the Sahih of Muslim(Book of Zakat, Chapter:The Acceptance of Charity From Lawful Means and Developing It [1015]), on the authority of Abu Hurairah(radhiyallahu anhu) who said:
The Messenger of Allāh(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: ‘Allāh the Almighty is Good and accepts only that which is good. And verily Allāh has commanded the believers to do that which He has commanded the Messengers. So the Almighty has said:
“O you Messengers! Eat of the Tayibat [all kinds of halal (legal) foods] and perform righteous deeds.” [al-Mu’minun:5l]
And the Almighty has said:
“O you who believe! Eat of the lawful things that We have provided you.” [al-Baqarah:172].’
Then the Prophet(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) mentioned the case of a man after having journeyed far, disheveled and dusty as a result of travel, who spreads out his hands to the sky saying ‘O Lord! O Lord!’ while his food is haram (unlawful), his drink is haram (unlawful), his clothing is haram (unlawful), and he has been nourished with haram (unlawful), so how can his supplication be answered!”
Abdullah, the son of Imam Ahmad, mentioned in the book of Zuhd(abstinence of the worldly life ~ [788], also collected by Abu Dawud in Az-Zuhd [13]) by his father: “The children of Israel were struck by a calamity, so they came out in search for the relief, so Allāh revealed to the Prophet(sallallahu alaihi wasallam) that he should inform them:
‘You come out into the open plain with impure bodies, you raise palms to me that you have used to spill blood and used to fill your homes with unlawful things, and now that My Anger towards you has intensified, you shall not increase in anything from Me except distance.’”
Abu Thar said: “The amount of righteousness with a supplication is sufficient as much as salt suffices in food(collected by Imam Ahmad in Az-Zuhd [788], also by Ibnul Mubarak in Az-Zuhd [319])”.
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