A son asking for a non-married person and asking for rain out of season
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The questioner:
We say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it considered transgression in supplication to ask for a son when you are not married, or to ask for rain out of its proper time, such as other than the winter season?
The Shaykh:
Glory be to Allah, this is among the enjoyments. You ask for a son when you are not married? Ask Allah to provide you with a wife, to provide you with offspring, and to provide you with sustenance. Is Allah unable to marry you and give you children? Ask Allah for offspring, a righteous wife, and good offspring, even if you have not yet married; there is no contradiction in that. And people may need rain for drinking; they need water for the wells. Allah is capable of sending down rain at any time. If people need drinking water or water for the wells, and they are in the heat or in the summer, they call upon their Lord out of need.
The questioner:
I say.
The Shaykh:
That rain may fall at any time, (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
We say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it considered transgression in supplication to ask for a son when you are not married, or to ask for rain out of its proper time, such as other than the winter season?
The Shaykh:
Glory be to Allah, this is among the enjoyments. You ask for a son when you are not married? Ask Allah to provide you with a wife, to provide you with offspring, and to provide you with sustenance. Is Allah unable to marry you and give you children? Ask Allah for offspring, a righteous wife, and good offspring, even if you have not yet married; there is no contradiction in that. And people may need rain for drinking; they need water for the wells. Allah is capable of sending down rain at any time. If people need drinking water or water for the wells, and they are in the heat or in the summer, they call upon their Lord out of need.
The questioner:
I say.
The Shaykh:
That rain may fall at any time, (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب لا يُقال السلام على الله إلى باب لا يقول : عبدي وأَمَتِي — islamhouse.com (58:49)
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