Re: Belief in Existentialism
OK difficlt question… what makes certain duaaein count…
Once again my way of using practical examples…
I want to make a cup of tea.
I put water in a pan, tea leaves, milk, sugar, and for good measure…some tea masala too.
I wait for the tea. Nothing happens…why cos I did not think to boil it all.
Now I know this is so basic…but pls bear with me…
I wait and wait and also put in one dua.
Nothing happens.
I am disappointed…
Wait a minute…I realise…I did not switch on the cooker…silly me
Or my mum tells me how are you going to make tea if you dont bring it to boil.
So I say my duaa is not answered this time.
But hang on…the realisation which came to me that I had not thought of boiling the ingredients…or mum pointing out my mistake…that is a way of answering duas.
Possibly if you go thru your program, you will realise something so basic and critical that you missed out that you could kick yourself.
We all expect dua to be answered like Poof in an instant the problem solved before your eyes.
But no … your dua will leads you to the next step and the next step until you can find the solution. And now you have forgotten that you did the dua…and that it was the dua which led you to this.
Sometimes the solution is there but you do not take it…and then you can never solve the problem. Like in my example if mum comes to give me advice and I say to her leave me alone let me figure this out myself…well the solution was there and I did not take it…my pride, perhaps anger…or whatever.
So I dont think there is a certain model He uses to answer duaaein…maybe it is there in front of us and we refuse to acknowledge it…or perhaps we are too impatient and want instant answers..and conclude that duaaein are not answered.
Thats my semi-logical simple point of view…