Ali Ataie – Three Things Can Happen When You Make a Dua

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.