i'd love mr rudra the illumina who gives
us this scenario
he says
that a servant of allah will be pursuing
something of this world of wealth or
leadership
until it has finally been facilitated
for him so you've made you out for
something you've wanted and you've gone
after it and now it is on its way to you
and then at that moment
allah looks at him from above the seven
heavens and says to the angels
take it away from him
why because
if i give this to him then i'm going to
put him in hell fire meaning this
blessing in dunya will change him in a
way that allah knows will end up leading
to his destruction in the hereafter
so allah takes it away from him
so he keeps on saying after that so and
so beat me to it so and so got this and
i didn't and the whole time it was
nothing but allah's blessing upon him
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now on the day of judgment when things
are made open and clear
wouldn't you want to know why certain
things were withheld from you
what happens
when allah reminds you as you're
standing before him remember that thing
you kept asking me for remember that
spouse you wanted remember that career
or position you were after
josie rahimahullah mentions a powerful
narration from a tabarani and while
other scholars like ibn rajab and ibn
tamiya pointed out weakness in its chain
they still found it relevant to quote
for its wisdom and that is what ana
narrated
allah says that from amongst my servants
are those whose faith would not be
rectified except through poverty and if
i opened the doors of wealth for him it
would corrupt him
in ibaadi man
and there are amongst my servants those
whose faith would not be rectified
except through wealth and if i deprived
him it would corrupt him
ibadi
and there are amongst my servants those
whose faith would not be rectified
except through good health
and if i made him sick it would corrupt
him
and there are those amongst my servants
whose faith would not be rectified
except through illness and if i healed
him it would corrupt him
and there are amongst my loving servants
that seek a particular type of worship a
particular type of station
and they're unable to achieve it so that
they don't become conceited
i plan for my servants with my knowledge
of what is in their hearts verily i am
all-knowing and i am all aware this is
so crucial to understanding d'a in a
wholesome way
you're not just calling upon allah with
certainty in his ability to do things
for you you're calling upon him with
certainty in his knowledge to do what's
best for you and just like you're
admitting your weakness to do what you
want for yourself
you're also acknowledging your
limitation of understanding what's
actually best for you the messenger of
allah
the dua of any one of you is answered as
long as he does not pray for something
which involves sin or the cutting off of
ties of kinship and as long as he does
not become impatient and start to say
i made your i made your fella yesterday
and allah is not answering my dura
and so as a result what does he do he
stops making dua altogether now the
effect is that you stop making dura
but your bad opinion of allah is the
source of it in the first place because
by saying that you're either attributing
to allah allah which is weakness or
you're attributing to him al-bukhil
which is stinginess and allah is so far
away from either of those attributes the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
verily allah is compassionate allah is
shy allah is generous
he's too shy
for his servant to raise his hands up to
him and then not place any goodness in
either one of them subhanallah our lord
is shy from one of us who are you
to be shy for me we're worried about
standing before you but allah doesn't
disappoint those that he loves and so
every single dua he takes seriously
any time that allah allows your tongue
to move
then know that it's because he wants to
give you something and that's why um
who said when i make dua
i only concern myself with the ability
to ask not the answer you shouldn't be
worried if you're not seeing the answer
you should be worried if you're unable
to ask that's where you should really be
afraid
he said something to that effect he said
he said i'm not worried at all about
being deprived of an answer i'm only
worried about being deprived from being
able to make the ask because if you ask
allah he will answer so what are the
various ways that allah gives us when we
make dura especially as it pertains to
this moment in the hereafter for one
in your record on the day of judgement
you see all of these salawat tahil and
tasbih and istifar of
all the words of remembrance all the
words of forgiveness all the prayers on
the prophet saw sallam all these words
of praise are mountains of good now in
your record and you know what you're
likely to be most sincere with those
words when you're making dura in
desperation so that makes it even better
remember dua is composed of two things
thana which is the praise of allah and
which is the request from allah
the scholars say that the thanat part
which is the praise that you put forth
throughout your dua
it's always stored for the hereafter as
for the talab which is the request that
part is distributed between both this
dunya and the akhira this life and the
next so sometimes it's going to be
delayed so the rewards of all the
remembrance of allah that was part of
your dua is showing up in your record
and if that was all that would be
sufficient then the prophet salallahu
wasallam goes on to say relating to the
talab itself to the ask itself he says
there is no muslim who calls upon allah
so long as it's not a sinful ask or the
cutting off of family ties but that
allah will give him one of three things
allah might quickly fulfill your ask
or allah will divert an evil away from
him similar to it
or allah will store it for him like a
treasure in the hereafter they said
that's the case yeah
we're going to keep on asking prophet
said allahu aksal allah is more keep on
asking allah has even more than what you
ask of him no matter how much you ask
the point is every single time you ask
him sincerely allah is going to respond
with so much more and so what is it like
when you're standing in front of allah
and allah says remember when you asked
me for this and that here's what i've
turned that into for you here here's the
beauty of it that they're not mentioned
let's say that you're sick
and you and 150 people make dura a bunch
of times for you to be cured
but you're not cured in this dunya
every single one of those duras was
accepted for you as a treasure in the
hereafter now it might be that allah in
his mercy lets the sickness go
and then he still cures you at some
point so let's say that 500 duas were
made for a cure
now 499 of them were stored in the
hereafter as treasure but then that last
one went to your cure in this dunya as
well
the point is as you're standing there on
the day of judgment
and you're seeing these stored treasures
of dura showing up in your books of
deeds
let me tell you what you're not doing
you are not wishing that those duras
were answered in this dunya you're
saying alhamdulillah allah left them for
here where they mean so much more not
like ya allah can you let me go back and
get that job or that spouse or whatever
it is that you were asking for you are
wishing at this point
that all of your dr'as were answered for
the hereafter and so you trust your lord
with your duas it's very similar to the
way that you trust your lord with your
charity you loan him your donations in
this world and allah gives it back to
you as what as a mountain of gold in the
hereafter
so how many duras have you deposited in
this dunya
and what type of treasures will you see
from allah who never failed to hear you
he never failed to answer you and he
never fails to reward you in ways that
you could never imagine