Acceptance of Prayers

Acceptance of Prayers By Allah Almighty By: Omar Suleiman

There are three things to think about when making our Duas and Allah accepting them:

1)      The answer can sometimes be “no”. We ask Allah to answer us on our terms but when you make dua you want Allah to answer you on the best terms. If Allah does not grant you something here than he will avert you from some harm that was greater or give it to you in the akhira.

2)       Allah is not unjust. Imagine there being two kids, one who was very obident and followed all of his parent orders and the other who disobeyed them. Now if they both asked for a present, who deserves it more? Allah will not give you something you have not worked for but reject others who have. And this is really important to understand. People always ask, “Where is the help of Allah?” but what are you doing in order for Allah to give you this help.

3)       If you want Allah to accept your dua, you have to trust in that dua

4)       Do what Allah says, Allah loves those who obey him.

Dua and putting your trust in Allah come, hand-in-hand, you need the one to have the other, there are three levels of trusting Allah:

1)       There is trusting Allah like you trust a wakil to be your business agent. You are constantly on top of him.

2)       Trusting Allah like a child trust his mother, Allah our ultimate source of comfort. We always run back to Allah.

3)       Trusting Allah the way a dead body trusts its washer, it has no choice. 

"I seek refuge in you, from you”

“I thought about asking Allah why he lets certain things happen in the world, but I was too scared he would ask me the same thing”