Salamualikoum, welcome back to Allah loves so last
episode we talked about how Allah loves to be praised
now Allah doesn't just love to be praised Allah loves to hear your voice
even in asking him dua'a generally is broken down into "'athana' wtalab" which is
to praise him and then to ask him, right. now if you are dealing with someone who
is unwilling or incapable or stingy usually when you ask someone too much
then they stop liking you they stop loving you so you might love someone as
a person but when they keep on calling you and asking you for things that
actually turns you off and you stop talking to that person or you stop
answering their calls because you no longer want to hear from them because
you know that they're gonna keep on asking you but with Allah not only does
your praise of him bring you closer to him you're asking of him brings you
closer to him and that's really an incredible concept and it's such the
divine apart from us the prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa salam) said as we mentioned the last episode
"'ina rabak yohibo elhamd" that your Lord loves to be praised in another hadith
in el-Tirmidi the prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa salam) said "sallalahu man faudhlihi,
fa'enaho yohibo an yos'al" ask Allah from his bounty because Allah
loves to be asked and the prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa salam) said "waen 'aftar el
e'bada intetharo el faraj" and the best form of worship is waiting for the
relief to come from Allah (swt) is that period of actually waiting for
the relief to come from Allah (swt) that you're in a state of
worship in those moments realize in surah al-baqarah when Allah mentions to
us dua'a and Allah mentions to us sincere supplication and he loves to be
called upon this is the way that you'll usually hear this first "wa'etha sa'alak 'ebadi a'ni fa'ni
careeb 'ojeeb el da'e etha da'a" that when my servant asks of
me that I am close to him I answer the call of the caller when he calls upon me
so usually this ayah this verse is given to you in the context of look Allah is
close to you Allah will answer you but if that ayah was just cut short and it
just said "wa'etha sa'alak 'ebadi a'ni fa'eni careeb" that if my servant
asks of me then I am close to him that in and of itself is
the biggest blessing that comes from your dua'a is the "qorb" is the
closeness part that you are close to Allah that Allah removes as every other
reference in the Quran then tell him or tell her respond on my behalf of
Messenger of Allah here Allah does the direct response and Allah says "fa'eni
careeb" I am close to you and that's the greatest gift that can be given to you
as a result of you calling upon him how Allah answers that there are is secondary
to the fact that you have a direct connect with allah "subhana wa ta'ala" and
you have a lord that loves to hear your voice
allah is shy from the hands of his servant and allah loves to hear the
voice of his servant and that's why Omar may allah be pleased with him he says
"ini la 'ahmelo ham el 'ejaba" he said when i make duaa i don't really care about the
response i do not concern myself with the response the only thing i concern
myself with is "ham el dua'a" is the ability to make that supplication because if
Allah allowed me to make the supplication then I know that I'm in a
good place then I know that I'm in a relationship
with Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) so the ability to call upon him and knowing
that Allah loves to hear me despite how broken I am despite how sinful I am
despite how distant I am Allah loves to hear me and there's a beautiful
saying from Ata' may allah be pleased with him he said "mata 'atlaka
Allahu lisanak bitalab, fa'alama an yoredo o'teyak" that
anytime Allah unshackles your tongue to allow it to ask anytime Allah allows
your tongue to move anytime Allah allows your tongue to request know that Allah
wants to give you something because Allah would not have allowed you to make
that dua'a unless he wanted to answer that dua'a and the greatest gift of that
dua'a is that allah loves to hear it and you get to be closer to allah (subhana wa
ta'ala) as a result of it "wa'etha sa'alak 'ebadi 'ani fa'ini careeb 'ojeebo el dawato
iel da'i etha da'a" and so when you call upon allah (subhana wa ta'ala) he
is close to you that's the first gift the second gift is that he answers your
call in a way that is befitting to that call in a way that's in your best
interest in a way that's beneficial to your world and to your hereafter and
does not put you in a more detrimental situation because of your limited scope
"fal yastaajeeboli wal yo'mino beh la'alhoum yorshedoon" so
let them answer me and let them believe in me so that they might find guidance
in their lives and both their worldly actions and more importantly in their
religious affairs so again the prophet (sallallaahu 'alayhi wasalam) says
"salalahu men fadleh" ask Allah from his bounty because you have a lord that
loves to be asked may Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) make us amongst those whose
tongues and whose hearts are always connected to him both in praise as we
mentioned in the last episode and in request as we mentioned today Allahoma ameen
Jazakallah Khayran see you all next time in sha Allah.