Ali Ataie – Three Things Can Happen When You Make a Dua
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Make du'a, one of 3 things will happen.
Either Allah
will give you what you want in the
dunya,
or He won't give you that thing, but
He'll give you something better. And sometimes we
don't know that what He's given us is
better because
Allah is Al Hakim. He is wise. Allah
has.
He is omniscient. He knows the future, but
we don't know that. So we complain if
we don't get exactly what we want. Or
this also entails that Allah
will deprive you of something,
but by depriving you of that thing He
averts you from a Museebah
that could have destroyed you.
Or the third thing will happen, which is
the best, that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala won't
give you anything in the dunya, but on
the Yom Al Qiyamah, you'll see the reward
of that Dua in the form of jibal,
mountains,
and people will see these mountains, and they
will wish, I wish, I wish that Allah
never accepted a single one of mine,
Iya in the dunya because I could have
these mountains.
So the akhirah is better.
The afterlife is better than the the present.
Ibn Ata'illah, he said, if Allah gave you
the treasure of being able to make dua,
if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'la gave you the
treasure of being able
to make Dua, He said, even raising your
hands to Him,
then know that He'll give you whatever you
ask Him,
right, of course, with the condition
that you have a good opinion of Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. Ibrahim ibn Adham was a
little more strict. He was
a great zahid from the Tabi'in. His students
came to him and said, Why doesn't Allah
answer our prayers?
And he says you read the Quran but
you don't implement it. You claim to love
Allah but you don't implement the injunctions. You
claim to love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
but you don't follow him.
How can Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala answer your
dua?
You don't follow the habib of Allah. You're
asking Allah for things but you don't follow
his habib, his beloved. How can Allah answer
your Dua?
I remember back in the day, as they
say,
I used to play a little flag football
and we were on a flag football league,
and the league was basically all Muslim.
And,
and, we got to the championship game 1
year,
And so
our team and the and the team were
going to play. We prayed Asr together. And
everyone was there praying Asr and after Asr,
people were making dua. I'm like, well, masha'Allah.
Very religious people here. And then we prayed
the we played the championship game
and my team lost.
And now it's Maghreb time, and almost everyone
from my team is walking away, and the
other team is praying
So I asked one of my teammates, I
said, where are you going? Didn't you pray
ahasr?
And he said, we lost the game.
This was his response.
I said, what?
And he said, yeah, in my du'a after
Asr, I asked Allah to give us victory.
He didn't. Why should I pray to him?
This was his response.
SubhanAllah. I said, yeah, with an attitude like
that. No wonder why we lost the game.