• In these times we are more in need to supplication then ever
• …… need of Allah’s aid
• …… how to make supplications
• …… conditions for supplications to be accepted
• …… The times supplications are accepted

In the famous book “A Da’a Wa Du’aa” “The desease and the cure of Ibn Qayim

1. Attentive heart
2. Complete fucus
3. Coincides with six times…..

The that supplication is never rejected

[1] Last third of the night

[2] Right after the Adhan

[3] Between Adhan and Iqama

[4] At the end of the obligatory prayers

[5] When the Imam ascends the member during Jumah prayer until the prayer is completed

[6] The last hour on Friday after Asr

So these times are met and it coincides with the humility in the heart in front of his lord, continuously supplicating with (Tadurruan) submissiveness and (Riqqah) humiliation

Facing the Qiblah and in s state of purity and raised his hands towards Allah

He begins by praising Allah and then follows with his requests his needs and sending his salutations on the messenger of Allah and before he requests for his needs, he repents to Allah and seeks his forgiveness

He begins to ask Allah and is persistent in his request and shows his love and humility (towards Allah) and asks Him with hope of fear.

And with each request he implores Allah by using his Names and Attributes (give examples)

• Ya Razaaq – give me
• Ya Al Wahab – Bestow upon
• Ya Al Shafee – Give me a cure
• Ya Al Wadood – Give me such and such
• Ya Al Qadir – rectify the affair of the Muslums

…. and His Tawheed (give an example)

Example of a Palestinian man standing in rubble

“I am steadfast I am steadfast, Let him destroy the house on me, I am standing…”

He quotes the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās (رضي الله عنه), pointing to al-Ulūhiyyah:^[1]

إِذَا سَأَلْتَ فَاسْأَلِ اللَّهَ، وَإِذَا اسْتَعَنْتَ فَاسْتَعِنْ بِاللَّهِ

When you ask, ask (only) from Allāh and when you seek aid, seek aid (only) from Allāh.

He mentions the name of Allāh, pointing to al-Asmā wal-Ṣifāt:

He is al-Qādir (the Powerful, the Able) over everything…

Then he says:, pointing to al-Rubūbiyyah

He is the one who gives life and takes life and He is powerful over every thing.

• He proceeds his supplication b giving charity
• Indeed this supplication is almost never rejected
• Also the place and state of a person is important
  • If he is in a state of travel
  • If he is in a state of distress (e.g. he has been oppressed)

• So remember these affairs the next time
• Focus , let go of all the things – the phone, the stress, the anxiety, the worldly life and focus on supplicating in this method.

Part ii

However one of the most important matters one should keep in mind when supplicating:

There comes in the following narration the story of a man whos supplication was rejected:

In a hadith it says: The Prophet (SAW) mentioned the man who undertakes a lengthy journey and is disheveled and covered with dust, and he stretches his hands towards heaven saying, ‘O Lord, O Lord,’ when his food is haraam, his drink is haraam, his clothes are haraam. He is nourished with haraam, so how can he be granted a response? [Narrated by Muslim, 1015]

Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali (RH) said: It was narrated that ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (RA) said: “By avoiding that which Allah has forbidden, Allah will accept dua and tasbeeh.”

Ibn Al-Qayyim said: Thus eating haraam things reduces the strength of the dua and weakens it. 

How sins block our dua is something that many of us don’t comprehend because if we did, we would pay more attention to stop the sins that we indulge in daily.

Al-Qurtubi (RH) said:

It was said to Ibraaheem ibn Adham: Why is it that we supplicate and receive no response? He said because you know Allah but you do not obey Him, and you know the Messenger but you do not follow his Sunnah, and you know the Quran but you do not act in accordance with it, and you eat from the blessings of Allah but you do not give thanks for them, and you know Paradise but you do not seek it, and you know Hell but you do not flee from it, and you know the shaytaan but you do not fight him rather you agree with him, and you know death but you do not prepare  for it, and you have buried the dead but you do not learn a lesson from that, and you ignore your own faults and are preoccupied with other people’s faults.

[Tafseer Al-Qurtubi, 2/312]