Why
our Prayers are not Answered
Taken from Khushoo fis-Salaat (p.62) of Ibn Rajab
al-Hanbalee - Rahimullah
IBRAHEEM IBN ADHAM
- may Allaah have mercy on him - a third century scholar, a teacher and a
companion of Sufyaan ath-Thawree, was asked about the saying of Allaah -
the Most High: "And your Lord says: Call on me I will answer your
prayer..." [Soorah Ghaafir 40:60] i.e. "We supplicate and we
are not answered."
So he said to them:
- "You know Allaah, Yet you do not obey Him,
- You recite the Qur'aan, Yet do not act according to
it,
- You know Shaitaan(Devil), Yet you have agreed with
him,
- You proclaim that you love the Messenger of Allah,
sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam, Yet you abandon his Sunnah,
- You proclaim your love for Paradise, Yet you do not
act to gain it,
- You proclaim your fear for the Fire, Yet you do not
prevent yourselves from sins,
- You say "Indeed death is true", Yet you
have not prepared for it,
- You engage yourselves with finding faults with
others, Yet you do not look at your faults,
- You eat of 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."
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