Dealing with Difficulty #30 Prayers Not Answered

People wait for the response. They ask him

for something and they want it. And it's

difficult because

we don't know

when we're going to get what we've asked

and we keep asking Allah. He wants you

to have hope in his mercy

and he wants you to have hope in

his response.

He tells you when you call out to

me, I hear it, I respond.

Allah is hearing and Allah responds

in a way he knows is best for

you because he's the most merciful.

So because Allah is merciful, if you're asking

for something harmful,

he would give you something else that he

knows is not harmful.

But because you don't know the future,

he kept something away from you

knowing that that is going to be

destructive for you in whatever

way the destruction would be.

So therefore, out of my love, I know

what you asked me. Trust me. I've given

you something better.

Imagine a little baby

asks you for a gun,

and in turn, you give them a sweet

or you give them

something much more meaningful, a toy.

Because you know if this child gets a

gun they would pull the trigger one day

and cause death or cause harm.

So similarly, when we ask Allah for things,

you need to be convinced

that Allah has heard it and he responds

to it. Allah says,

I respond

the call

of the caller

when he calls me.

So,

this is

what Allah has promised us and he told

us.

Now when you call out to Allah, you've

begged him for something.

He may give you exactly what you want,

when you want and how you want. That

is amazing because that means what he knew

was good for you and what you asked

was exactly the same thing. Here you are.

Subhanallah,

when you get what you've asked for, become

closer to Allah. Many people ask for something.

When they get it, they distance from Allah.

And Allah says that in the Quran, that

when man is

afflicted with something, he calls out to us.

When we alleviate

whatever he was afflicted with,

he carries on on earth as though he

never ever called out to us for anything.

He, like, forgets us. So that's a problem.

So Allah Almighty,

when he gives you what you want, how

you want, when you want, then remember something,

It should be a means of making you

closer to Allah. However,

in a lot of cases,

that may not be. He may give you

what you want, but slightly delayed.

Delayed by how much? He alone knows.

Maybe a few weeks, months, years, or perhaps

in the hereafter.

If it is in the hereafter, it's going

to be far better

than what you asked for.

Thirdly, what you need to know is at

times Allah Almighty

hears

what you've asked for,

and

he wants

to give you something in the hereafter

only

which is better than what you've asked for,

for a reason he knows, because this is

better for you.

It's better for you. If you've asked, for

example,

for a certain amount of money, it can

happen.

And Allah

says, in your case, it's better for me

to give you paradise

for the patience you're going to bear as

a result of us

not giving you whatever you wanted,

and therefore your ultimate victory and success, which

is eternal,

would actually come as a result of that

patience. Go for it. So

what it is here is dealing with this

difficulty is through conviction that Allah does only

what is best for us.

This is the case with marriages, with businesses,

with health, with so much more. Sometimes people

are praying because they don't have good health.

And although in one of the episodes we

did speak about health,

the point here is the supplication.

We pray with hope that we're gonna be

cured

even if

it's going downwards

and we see the deterioration,

the hope

and the prayer,

those 2 together

can earn you eternal

paradise

in the face, meaning you made that

prayer and you had the hope, in the

face

of complete loss of it on the side

of medicine.

So that faith and conviction, yaqeen, with which

you called out to Allah,

In the dying moments, Allah loved it so

much. That is my worshipper. He believes in

me. He actually

calls out to me with such conviction.

For him is paradise because you've arrived at

a level of conviction

that even if you died having had hope,

at least you died hopeful and not hopeless.

At least you died with a smile. You

met Allah Almighty

and he was so pleased with how you

worshipped him. Because remember,

your prayer, your supplication is an act of

worship. Your hope is an act of worship.

Hope and patience are acts of worship that

are only,

given the opportunity to selected

people to engage in.

Only selected people.

So if Allah has chosen you to engage

in some of these acts of worship, they're

actually a privilege, an honor.

Believers at times need to be reminded to

look at it this way.

And that's why our brothers and sisters in

Palestine going through the challenges, it's like Allah

has made them

strong.

Allah has given them that conviction. Allah has

put them on another level of endurance. May

Allah bless them, protect them, grant them goodness

and ease,

and may Allah Almighty grant them victory. Amen.

So my brothers and sisters,

when we ask Allah something, don't for a

moment think he didn't hear, he heard it.

Similarly, when you seek the forgiveness of Allah,

you say, oh Allah, forgive me. He heard

it, and if you were genuine, he forgave

you.

Done.

So shaitan creeps in again and makes you

doubt, no, Allah didn't hear me. No, Allah

did not

forgive me. Don't allow that to happen.

Allah heard you and forgave you. We will

repeat it again, not because we are doubting

that Allah forgave us or not, but rather

because

we want to achieve a higher status in

the eyes of Allah.

We repeat it. We're embarrassed. We committed a

sin. We feel

that we owe it back to Allah

to say, Allah forgive me. Again, Allah, I

did this. Forgive me. Allah, I feel so

bad. Forgive me.

Allah has forgiven you first time, 2nd, 3rd,

4th, your elevate the elevation of status is

happening. So it's good to repeat the istighfar,

the seeking of forgiveness,

but not out of doubt of the mercy

of Allah, rather out of love of Allah.

And out of the embarrassment of a human

being said, you know what? I'm so embarrassed.

I actually sinned against Allah. May Allah forgive

me. So Allah hears you. Don't ever doubt

that. Allah gives you. When it comes to

repentance, it's always given as long as you

were genuine. Genuine meaning

you were truly remorseful,

you regretted it, and inshallah, you have promised

not to repeat that. I I don't want

to do that again, oh, Allah.

Forgive me. I acknowledge what I did.

So

Allah Almighty elevates your status. When you ask

Allah for something, at times he gives you

something way beyond

your imagination

as a result of a dua.

So an example of it is when Allah

Almighty has

not given you the thing you've asked for

but so many other things happened in your

life, it was a direct result of the

fact that you

and called out to Allah and called out

so your children became good and you had

a blessed situation. You had a lovely home.

You had successes in your business. You had

so

much of goodness in the dunya. And perhaps

you'll earn so many different things because you

worshipped Allah in a certain way. So Allah

Almighty

is the greatest. Always call out to him.

Always have hope. Always know that he has

heard your prayer and understand the different ways

he responds. You will never be at a

loss. When you have hope in Allah and

you've called out to him, he will always

give you not just one thing, but many

things in return

for that great act of worship. And like

I said, Allah chooses you to worship him

through sabr

and through

having hope in

Allah. And that's why we should always be

having hope in the mercy of Allah

and we know with conviction

that Allah has heard us and forgiven us.

world and the next.

world and the next.