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BASICS OF ISLAM: SUPPLICATION(DUA): PART 7

“There is an hour during the night in which no Muslim individual will ask Allah for good in this world and the next without His giving it to him; and that applies to every night.” (Muslim, Musafirin 166, 167)

The purpose of the creation of human beings is to worship Allah. One of the most important signs of worshipping is dua (prayer/supplication). “My Lord is not uneasy because of you if ye call not on Him…” (al-Furqan, 25/77) The importance of dua, which is a sincere deed of worship, is underlined in the verse above.

Therefore, Allah wants His slaves to mention him both during the day and at night, and to pray to him for their world and the hereafter. He wants them to pray as follows: “O Lord! Make me happy in both worlds! O Allah! Give me health! O Lord! Make me successful in what I do!”

Both nights and days belong to Allah. He gives the blessing that He wishes when he regards it appropriate. He does not regard it appropriate for His slaves, whom He created in the best mold, to whom He gave the best boons and for whom He prepared Paradise and His jamal, to spend the long night in heedlessness. Allah wants them to know that He owns everything and to tell Him about their needs.  

People are encouraged to worship by being informed beforehand that there will be “a time when prayers are accepted” every night just like Friday and Night of Power.

This time period is kept as a secret; thus, people are encouraged to worship all the time; on the other hand, they are prevented from feeling conceited by saying, “I prayed to Allah at the time when prayers are accepted.”

Moreover, there are two remarkable, important points in the hadith: The phrase “Muslim individual” is emphasised along with the phrase “ask Allah for good”.

The word Muslim indicates a real man who has surrendered to Allah in all aspects.

Asking for good means the things that Allah regards as “good” not what a person wishes as good based on his soul and desire.

It is not something easy to realize those two points.

Thus, the hadith does not say that “any prayer” will be accepted from “anybody”. On the contrary, the hadith says that “good prayers” will be accepted from “Muslims”.

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Each one of us has obstacles that constantly stand in his way towards Allah, hardships that make us long for Jannah. 

For many of us, those obstacles are in human form, yes, humans. People who -intentionally or unintentionally- stop us, hurt us, or make us stumble -therefore making our pace slower- or force our hearts to leave this path completely نسال اللهالسلامة و العافية. 

Especially in sacred months -such as the one we are in now- we find those obstacles suddenly becoming bigger -which makes it much harder to jump over them or walk around them- so their affect on our journey becomes more severe, their harm becomes unbearable and the wounds they cause us deeper, making them take longer to heal. 

As we finally get to take a breath, tired of building this fortress of eeman that our evil nafs should not be able to destroy, -a fortress we built brick by brick, all alone with the company and support of no one but Our Lord- we find them behind us, destroying our hope, with slow steady strikes, a smiling face and innocent eyes. 

Innocent eyes that show no evil -for perhaps they do not intend any bad!, but their actions certainly portray otherwise- 

In seconds, the hard work of days, weeks, months or even years disappears. Gone, like it has never existed. 

In seconds our gardens of hope become swamps of despair, in seconds our hard earned motivation, fades, or even dies…

All of this happens in a few instants, a moment of anger, or sadness, a misunderstanding.. or a mere act of oppression brings us back to square one, as if we never walked a long journey, or as if we did not fight battles that -apparently- increased our immunity to the hardships of the way. 

In seconds, we become, yet again, that ignorant child who stops doing what benefits him, to punish his parents for not giving him what he wants. We start to harm ourselves with neglect, expecting our suffering to be a punishment to those who -intentionally or unintentionally- strive to hurt us, unaware that we are doing them a favour, and the losers here are no one but ourselves.

When we stop doing what benefits us because of people, we are aiding our enemies against us, we are ripping our arms off and giving them to our jailers, so that they can use them to flog us if theirs get tired.

I know that their presence in your life makes you weaker and less productive than many of your peers, it forces you to break many promises you made to yourself and others… I know that their presence perhaps leaves you lost in a maze which’s only exits are either extreme self reproach or extreme self empathy, for you use their harm as an excuse for your actions -or the lack of them!-, yet are unable to get over the fact that excuses are the enemy of improvement! 

So remember, each one of us will be buried alone, the oppression you faced will not be an excuse for you to abandon your goal in this dunyah, rather, it should make your determination to attain Jannah higher and your longing to Allah stronger, for no one accepts to suffer for nothing.. do we?

I am aware that the emotional affect of these obstacles is not an easy aspect to deal with, I never managed to deal with it myself.

You will grieve and you will cry, you will wish you were never born and you will sob until you become unable breath, -fully helpless- you will realise how meaningless and weak you are, you surely will, and that is something that will accompany you during your entire stay in this dunyah unless Allah grants you a way out, so get used to it! 

What we do not want you to get used to is: lack of action. That is why, my advice to anyone who reads this, is to disconnect your heart from your limbs, cut the cables connecting them (I take no responsibility for anyone who takes these words into their literal sense!) do it whenever your heart is ill, so that it may not affect your actions. 

Let your arms, legs, tongue… all act by themselves while your heart heals, so that once it comes back strong and healthy, it will be able to lead them again in sha Allah. 

The heart and limbs are there to support each other, and by supporting I mean: uplifting, motivating, forcing to improve each other, not to accompany one and other in pain and illness.

Do not let the sickness of your heart stop you from reaching for its medicine with your arms!!!

And that is it may Allah bless you.