Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: \u201cOne of you is granted an answer to his supplication so long as he is not hasty\u201d<\/p>\n

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: \u201cOne of you is granted an answer to his supplication so long as he is not hasty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be impatient about the answer of du`aa\u2019<\/p>\n

He (peace be upon him) explained: \u201cbeing hasty means\u2026<\/p>\n

that one says: \u2018I supplicated but I have not been answered.\u2019\u201d So, he stops supplicating<\/p>\n

This hadith<\/em> was also narrated by Muslim in his Sahih collection. It reads:<\/p>\n

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “The supplication of the servant is answered so long as he does not supplicate for sin or for severing the ties of blood, and he is not hasty.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said: ” O Messenger of Allah! What does being hasty<\/strong> mean?” He said: “When one says: I supplicated, I supplicated but I did not find it being answered.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

and then he becomes frustrated and abandons supplication.\u201d This is what being hasty<\/strong> means and why it affects the du`aa\u2019<\/em>. The point is that the Prophet (peace be upon him) tells<\/p>\n

that our Lord (Exalted be He) answers one\u2019s du`aa\u2019<\/em> as long as one doesn\u2019t invalidate their supplication<\/p>\n

by their impatience, their frustration and abandonment of the du`aa\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

And this very bad; saying \u201cI did supplicate. I did supplicate\u201d<\/p>\n

As if one is thinking inwardly that he\/she supplicates so much so he has the right to be answered, and yet he hasn\u2019t been answered!<\/p>\n

He means: \u201cI did supplicate. I did supplicate so much so I have the right to be answered, and yet I wasn\u2019t given a thing!\u201d<\/p>\n

He is then as though he had called his Lord stingy<\/p>\n

That he has done what entitles him of answering his du`aa\u2019<\/em> by our God but He (God, the Almighty) didn\u2019t answer him.<\/p>\n

So, he calls his Lord stingy, and this is extremely bad<\/p>\n

It is extremely bad as well because this action indicates weakness in one\u2019s certainty of Allah<\/p>\n

And weakness in certainty leads to despair<\/p>\n

Allah (Exalted be He) told us a story about Ibrahim (peace be upon him)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHe said: \u201cAnd who despairs of the mercy of his Lord except those who are astray?\u201d<\/strong> (Al-Hijr<\/a> 15:56)<\/p>\n

One may also despair of the mercy of His Lord when he doesn\u2019t get his du`aa\u2019<\/em> answered<\/p>\n

because of what one knows for sure about oneself; namely one\u2019s sins<\/p>\n

One then looks at these sins and his unanswerable du`aa\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

which then makes them despair. To them, they are linked to one another<\/p>\n

One says \u201cI supplicated and I haven\u2019t been answered because of<\/p>\n

the disobedient slave I am\u2026 About this says Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah (may Allah have mercy on him):<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not ever abandon du`aa\u2019 <\/em>because of what you know about yourselves of falling short to perform good deeds, for Allah responded to the worst of His creation:<\/p>\n

He is Iblis.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHe said, \u2018My Lord, then reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected. <\/strong>(Allah) said, \u201cSo indeed, you are of those reprieved.\u201d<\/strong> (Al-Hijr<\/a> 15:36-37)<\/p>\n

Allah answered the du`aa\u2019<\/em> of the worst of His creation, so one shouldn\u2019t lose hope of getting Allah\u2019s answer to their du`aa\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

Here, one should also understand that Allah\u2019s (Exalted be He) answer to their du`aa\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

is not limited to the matter one asks Allah for<\/p>\n

Nor limited to seeing the thing one asks Allah for immediately<\/p>\n

This is not the only way Allah answers one\u2019s du`aa\u2019 <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Answering du`aa\u2019<\/em> has different types. Narrated Imam Ahmad and Abu Al-A`la<\/p>\n

from Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not a Muslim who calls upon Allah with any supplication, that does not contain any sin or severing the ties of kinship,<\/p>\n

but Allah will grant him one of three things: either Allah will immediately respond to his supplication, or He may keep or store the answer for the Hereafter<\/a>,<\/p>\n

or He will turn away from him an equivalent amount of evil or harm.\u201d So, when one is impatient, they deprive themselves of all this good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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