if you were to ask today anyone around you for anything
maybe you'll ask once maybe you'll ask a second time
maybe you'll ask a third time and normally by the third time that you ask someone for a favor
people start to feel like you know this person is asking too much and that's why a poet says
that we asked and you gave to us we came back and asked again you gave again
but whoever asks again and again one day that person is going to be
denied the right of whatever question he's asking if you have a beggar on the street he begs you
once he asks you maybe you'll feel something in your heart you'll give to him the second time
maybe again a third time you'll say maybe this person is actually trying to take advantage of
me every time he sees me my niceness he wants to take advantage of this but allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is different allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves it when you ask the first time allah
when you ask the fourth time allah continues to love it
no matter how much you ask him because the reason why human beings they begin to
feel an aversion to a person who's asking as opposed to allah the reason why human beings
feel this is because human beings are limited creatures and they have limited resources
treasures are limitless and that's why a poet says that don't ask the child of adam
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don't ask the child of adam for anything ask the one whose doors are never closed
and there's no one there guarding these doors there's no one there's blocking your question
there's no one there blocking your requests you see in this world as well sometimes
when we find a lead to someone who is a person of generosity often times they have
what they call hijab meaning people standing by their door even if that be metaphorically
sometimes blocking people from coming in so that the requests become don't become too much
doesn't have anyone between you and him you raise your hands to allah at any time within
the day and the night and you ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there to give was
it's almost like a way of showing allah that you know it's almost like a way of
saying to allah that i don't really need you or allah subhanahu wa you
have to recognize your need to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
oh people you are in need of allah subhanahu wa
allah is ever sufficient and allah is ever praiseworthy praiseworthy for what because
he grants because he's sufficient and he suffices others as well so ask allah my dear brothers and
sisters and a child of adam if you were to ask him he becomes angry allah will not become angry
allah will rather be happy if you ask allah wants you to ask allah tells you in the quran
call out to me i will answer your call allah subhana wa says you see the arabic
scholars the scholars of the arabic language they say the word
when it's used within the quran and outside of the quran as well at times when the
conditional sentences started off with isa it shows that the person is encouraging
that to happen let me give an example i want you to come over to my house for lunch today
i say to you when you come to my house i will give you lunch meaning i'm expecting you to come
whereas if i was to say if you were to come to my house i'll give you lunch i'm saying well i don't
really want you there but i'm not really expecting you but if you come i'll give you some lunch
right similarly when the conditional sentence in the quran as well started with idah allah is
encouraging whatever he's going to say afterwards when they ask you meaning allah subhanahu wa
is encouraging the ass the idea of asking they will find me close with
wants you to get to know him allah wants you to raise your hands to him allah wants
you to call out to him and they'll find me very very close to them when they ask i ask allah to
closer to him by asking him by taking up his offer that he makes every single night to people
and he says to the people and to the creation as he descends in a way that is befitting
only to his majesty and he asks people and he tells people and he encourages people
is there a questioner then i'll give him whatever he's asking
is there a person who wants to make du'a and i'll give the ijab i'll answer his call
i ask allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to allow us to take advantage of this opportunity
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