Have you ever wonder...

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Assalamualaikum warahmatulahhi wabarakatuh.

Yes, two posts in one day! Berabis jua, you might say. Well, bila tah lagi kan membuat berabis cemani. Mun normal days, sama jua sibuk. Baik tah weekend ani top up posts, plus top up imaan jua :)

Anyway, me and a housemate was enthralled when we first saw this. And of course, again, it's good to share it with you all out there.

Why Our Supplications

Are Not Answered?

Ibraheem Ibn Adham, may Allah have mecy upon him, was a third century scholar, a teacher and a companion of Sufyaan Ath-Thawree, and he was asked about the saying of Allah - The Most High:

"And Your Lord says:

'Call on me and I shall answer your prayer...' [40:60]

We supplicate and we are not answered."

So he said to them:

"You know Allah,

Yet you do not obey Him,

You recite the Quraan,

Yet you do not act according to it,

You know Shaaitan,

Yet you have agreed with him,

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 yourself from sins,

You say: 'Indeed death is true,'

Yet you have not prepare for it,

You busy yourself with finding faults in others,

Yet you do not look at your own faults,

You eat that which Allah has provide for you,

Yet you do not thank Him,

You bury your dead,

Yet you do not take a lesson from it."

Ref: Kushoo fis Solaat (p62) of Ibn Rajab al-Hambalee -rahimullah