Shadee Elmasry – Preconditions for Dua Being Answered EP. 3 Ramadan 2024
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim I can't tell you how many times people
tell me I'm not good enough. I did this I missed that. You tell them
that the your solution is indot You need to make dua alongside
with your actions. They saw I can't I'm not good. That's for you
guys, people, the misogyny is not true. There's really only one
cardinal sin that will get your DUA unanswered, and that is that
your wealth is earned through means that are 100% forbidden.
Not one deed here or there but your entire livelihood is from
forbidden means well why did the Prophet mention that because aside
from that, a sin by itself will not cause a person to not be able
to face Allah subhanaw taala now let's take a look at this
logically. You think that Allah Tada will not give you something
because you're not that good.
Allah to Allah has already given you and is continuously sustaining
for you something far better than what you were asking for your own
existence. Your own existence had came into being and you had done
nothing for it. You had done no worship for it. And on top of
that, you went and you committed wrongs and you forgot about a lot
and you live that whole life yet he sustained you. Your heart keeps
beating your eyes, keep working is what you're asking for. Put it on
one scale, put your heart on the other scale, which what you're
asking for what marriage, a job, a car, money, whatever it is, people
are always asking for, or your heart. Well, he's already given
you your heart every day. He is the real sustainer of all things
he's not he made a clock and he lets it run by itself. He sustains
it at every minute. At every second you're being sustained. So
Allah has already given you precedent of his generosity. If
that's the case, nobody has to worry about being perfect before
they face Allah to Allah with dua. On top of that the greatest sign
of humility. The greatest repentance is to admit one's
neediness to Allah subhanaw taala. As we're going to show in another
video, Allah Allah has made synonymous dua with worship. So if
you think because I'm benefiting from this, it's not worship,
you're making a mistake, because when I'm making asking Allah for
something, I'm admitting my neediness. I'm admitting that he's
there. I'm believing in him. I know that he hears I know that
he's generous. So you're actually reviving and rectifying your
entire belief system with one act, the prophets I seldom called it
the essence or the muck of a bad so a person doesn't need to be
somebody who is perfect in order to face ALLAH SubhanA wa Izadi
taken analogy with your worst your worst enemy. If you see your worst
enemy just got rammed by a car at his on the side of the road half
* limping, and he asked you for a ride, aren't you going to
give him a ride to the emergency room, your worst enemy? Likewise,
when you come to neediness with Allah, it doesn't matter what your
background was what your past was. Allah is more merciful to his
human creations than a mother is to her baby. There was one time
the prophets of Allah when he was, was passing by prisoners of war
after a battle, and he found a mother with her baby. And she was
afraid that she's a prisoner of war. She's just taken with her
whole tribe. And she's sitting there with her baby, she's afraid.
And the Sahaba were reassuring her that we're not going to do
anything to you or your baby. Like, you're just happened to be
here now, but you're gonna be released. So the prophesies
settled and looked at her concern and worry for her baby. And he
said, Is there anyone who cares more for anyone than a mother to a
child? They said, No, no, nobody. He said Allah cares more for his
creation than this mother for her child and a mother for a child is
the most forgiving of human relationships. One time the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam came upon a child who was very,
very bad to his mom. He was a youth like a teenager. He was very
bad to his mom. So he was sick. On his deathbed the Prophet saw, I
saw him said, Are you pleased with him? She said, No, I'm not pleased
with the province. I said, Pray for him. Be pleased with him.
Forgive him because he's about to die. If you don't forgive me go
sell fire. She said, No, he was very bad to me his whole life.
Prophesy seven said, okay, good. You don't want to do that. Go get
the fire, go get the firewood and he got the Sahaba go get firewood
and she's watching what's happening here. The Prophet went
got firewood and start to light a fire under his bed. He said, Let's
burn him now. So he doesn't burn in * fire for Infinity
eternally. She looked at his stops. Enough Enough, I forgive
him I forgive him. So when she saw the actual pain that's about to
come to her son. Okay. And the Prophet was just doing this to
encourage her to show her what the fire is like immediately she
forgave him. No human relationship is more merciful and your mother
would not expect perfection from you, your mother would forgive all
your sins. By analogy, Allah is multiple folds more merciful than
that. So a person should not have this misconception that dua is
only for the pious and it's not for sinners. If you liked the
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