Ive always been a great beliver in prayer and faith in allah especially in times of hardship and when i think im loosing my mind, but time and time again, the harder ive prayed 4 sumthing, each time the more dissapointment i face and i just don;t think that my prayers r being listened to, i know that allah may do this to us as a test but there r only so many times this can happen until u start to question your faith.
What;s more u look at ppl who dont even believe in god, who aren;t kind e.t.c everything happens so easily 4 them,they get what they want, i dunno eventually this crushes your faith, its not just me but i c it with ppl around me 2 who used to belive so much in prayer and had so much sabr but they r so demoralized now becos eah time god dissapoints them, i feel like this is what happening to me, Why does god hate us so much, when other ppl who do wronf get away with every single thing, i suppose the only reason that im writing this is so that u all tell me to knock sum sense in 2 myself, but its sooooo hard :teary:
Either of the following happens to a prayer /dua. (As I have learned. MAy Allah forgive me if I am wrong anywhere)
Prayer is immediately accepted in this world.
A man is asking a minor thing considering it to be very good for him, but instead of giving that thing to him, Allah accept that prayer for removing a great accident /mishap...etc. which was written in his near future and was heading his way.
Allah would bless him with many blessings on Qayamah and tell him that these are in place of your unaccepted duas. After knowing that he would wish that it would have been better if Allah had not accepted his every single prayer in the world and given him those blessings in Jannah.
The last one is very interesting case.
The angels ask Allah the reason behind HIS giving facilities and comfort to a person who is not practicing/ non-believer while Allah is not giving them to a believer and pious muslim who is praying all night with tears.
Allah (swt) replies " I don't like this non-believer's hands raised for prayers (because of his sins and disobedience in the past) so I immediately give him what he wants in this world (as there is fire for him in Jehannam)
But I love so much the hands of a believer raised for prayers that I don't immediately give him what he wants because I want to see him more in that state (praying with tears. He might stop praying like that after he gets what he wishes). Also Allah would bless him with even greater reward in Jannah (for his patience)
Once HAzrat Musa (a.s) asked Allah (swt) " Why do you give so much pain to a believer in this world ?"
Allah showed him a sight of Jannah and said " This is what I have kept for him after he passes the test of this world"
HAzrat Musa (a.s) replied " I swear by your honor and I swear by your grace that even if a man's hands and feet are cut and he lives from the beginning of mankind till Qayamah in such a way that his body is continuously dragged on the ground, and after that he gets what you just showed me, than he has seen no pain at all"
Hazrat Musa(a.s) then asked " Why do you give too much comfort and facilities to non-believers in this world ?"
Allah showed him a sight of hell.
Hazrat Musa (a.s) said " I swear by your honour and I swear by your grace that if a man live from the beginning of mankind till the end as a king and all humans serve him with all facilities, and after that he goes to the place which you just showed me, that man has not at all seen any pleasure in his life"
Once HAzrat Musa (a.s) asked Allah (swt) " Why do you give so much pain to a believer in this world ?"
Allah showed him a sight of Jannah and said " This is what I have kept for him after he passes the test of this world"
HAzrat Musa (a.s) replied " I swear by your honor and I swear by your grace that even if a man's hands and feet are cut and he lives from the beginning of mankind till Qayamah in such a way that his body is continuously dragged on the ground, and after that he gets what you just showed me, than he has seen no pain at all"
Hazrat Musa(a.s) then asked " Why do you give too much comfort and facilities to non-believers in this world ?"
Allah showed him a sight of hell.
Hazrat Musa (a.s) said " I swear by your honour and I swear by your grace that if a man live from the beginning of mankind till the end as a king and all humans serve him with all facilities, and after that he goes to the place which you just showed me, that man has not at all seen any pleasure in his life"
hmmmmm....i'm confused....Shouldnt this be the opposite way.... i mean the story you just mentioned..... Shouldnt the word jannah be replaced with hell in the first incident and vice versa in the second one.....
Anyways..... Its kinda unfair and depressing...that a good person doesnt get jack $hit for his good bahavior ,good deeds and actions in this world.......but he has to be patient and has to cling on to something or some promise which he has never seen before.....
^ this is what iman is... and it depends on what one really values; the few days we have in this very transient world or the comfort of hereafter.... All Muslims should be opting for the latter.
And Tweety Pie, what I'm going to write below is not related to you in ANY WAY, i am copying and pasting out of a dua-ki-kitab...
The following points I try to take into consideration when making dua.
THE TIMES OF ACCEPTANCE OF INVOCATIONS
- At the end of an obligatory prayer
- b/w azaan and iqamat
- at the time of tahajjut (my personal favourite as Allah SWT comes to the lowest arsh to see which of his bande are invocing to Him)
- In prostration
- when it is raining
- travelling on a journey
- at a specific time during friday
- in the battlefield
- At the time of sehri
- When Fasting
- time b4 Iftar/ opening the fast
- The Night of Power and destiny
- when drinkink zamzam
- on the day of Arafat while standing on the plane of Arafat
- after reciting the quran
WHY INVOCATION IS NOT ANSWERED?
Once Ibrahim ibn Adham was asked; we invoke to Allah SWT but our invocations are not answered. What is the reason for this? Ibrahim replied:
You recognised Allah but did not give Him His rights
You read the Quran but did not act upon it
You claimed to love the Prophet SAW but did not act upon His sunnah
You desired paradise but did not do those deeds to enter it
You claimed to have enmity for shaitan but did not oppose him
You acknowledged the reality of death but did not prepare for it.
We all need to ask ourselves as to how well we deliver the above... How honest are we in applying Islam in every aspect of our lives? Doing everything in a manner which is forbidden by the Quran and Sunnah, and then just expecting Allah SWT to answer our prayers doesn't really make sense. However, He is Ghafoor-ur- Raheem, and He does give us a LOT more then we honestly deserve. Once again, I speak to myself when I say this before anyone else, and I am not directing this at you.
I pray to Allah SWT that He makes things easier for us and stengthens our iman.
Anyways.....Its kinda unfair and depressing...that a good person doesnt get jack $hit for his good bahavior ,good deeds and actions in this world.......but he has to be patient and has to cling on to something or some promise which he has never seen before.....
Like Pinks said above, that's what imaan is about bhai jaan. You either believe in Allah, His angels, His Prophets and his Wahi or you don't. You cannot pick and choose (believe on Friday and disbelieve on Saturday and then believe again on Sunday) :) ...And it is not true that a good person doesn't get anything in this world. Allah will inshaAllah provide for His slaves in this world as well as the next. My question would be, if there is no Allah, then what is the purpose of creation? What happens to all the bad guys who do all the wrong things in this world and who oppress others? Do they just get away with it since there is "no" God?
Does man think that he is to be left to wander without an aim?
[75: 36]
Is not He (the same Allah) able to give life to the dead?
[75: 40]