Date: 11/6/2010

SUPPLICATION (Du'a) pt2

[Barries to the acceptance of one's supplication] A person may invoke Allah and not be answered or it may take a long time before his prayer is answered. There are many reason for this, including the following; *It may be that one supplicates to other than Allah along with supplicating to Allah (and this is idolatory, the greatest sin and greatest reason for non-acceptance). * It may be that one asks in profuse detail while it is better to be in general, like when one ask to be saved from the extreme heat of Hellfire, its bitter cold and its darkness etc, whearas it is better to seek refuge from the Hell-fire generally. *It may be that one supplicates against another or even against himself unjustly. * It may that he asks for something sinful or for cutting off relations. *It may be that he makes the answer for the supplication conditional by saying, for example, "O Allah forgive me if you will," or similar to this, *It may be that he hastens the response saying, "I have supplicated but there has been no response at all," and the leaves off supplicating in apathy and weariness. *It may be that one call out with an inattentive and neglectful heart.* It may be that one does not use the proper etiquette in the supplications, for instance, the Prophet(S.A.W) heard a man supplicating without giving salutation to the Prophet(PBUH) and so he said, "This one has been to hasty, "He then called him over or said another person; "When you pray in supplication, praise Allah and extol Him, then send your salution to the Prophet(S.A.W) and then after this, supplicate for what you wish." (Abu Dawud and at-Tirmidhi). *It may be that the person prays for something that is already accomplished and decided otherwise, like supplicating to remain in the life of this world forever. *It may be that the person tries to be artificially expressive and rhyming in his supplication. Almight Allah said, "Supplicate your Lord with humility and in fear, indeed he does not like those that trespass the limits." Ibn Abbas (radi allahu anhu) said, Beware of rhyming in your supplication for verily my exprience was that the Messenger of ALLAH (PBUH) and his companions never did that."(al-Bukhari). * It may be that one raises his voice too loud, since Allah(subhana wata allah) said, "Do not be too loud with your prayer nor too soft with it but take with it a middle course between these two." A'ishah(radi allahu anhu) said, This was revealed about supplication." !THE BELOVED ETIQUETTE OF THE SUPPLICANT IS TO ORGANIZE HIS INVOCATION TO ALLAH AS FOLLOWS! (1) first, one praises Allah and extols Him; (2) second, he gives salutations upon the Prophet(S.A.W); ( 3)Third, he seeks repentance from his sins and acknowledges his wrongdoings; (4)Fourth, he thanks Allah for his multiple blessing; (5)Fifth, he begins with his supplications, being keen to use the supplications mentioned in the Qur'an, which are called Jawaami'(comprehensive). And the supplications that are authentically reported from the Prophet(PBUH) or the righteous predecessor; (6)Finally, he closes the supplication with the salutation upon the Prophet (S.A.W)


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