Persisting in Supplication When the Request Is Not Granted
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person keeps asking Allah the Exalted and supplicating to Him day and night for a specific matter, but that matter is not granted to him, what do you advise him? Should he continue to persist, or should he leave this matter?
The Shaykh:
He has the choice to continue or not to continue, but he should not despair of it, nor lose hope in the mercy of Allah.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh! May Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
The hadith Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person keeps asking Allah the Exalted and supplicating to Him day and night for a specific matter, but that matter is not granted to him, what do you advise him? Should he continue to persist, or should he leave this matter?
The Shaykh:
He has the choice to continue or not to continue, but he should not despair of it, nor lose hope in the mercy of Allah.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh! May Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
The hadith
It is answered for one of you as long as he does not hasten. He said: How does he hasten? He said: He says, “I have supplicated and supplicated, but it has not been answered for me,” or “I do not see it being answered for me.”
يستجاب لأحدكم ما لم يعجل قال وكيف يعجل؟ قال يقول قد دعوت ودعوت فلم يستجب لي أو فلم أره يستجب لي.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب من علق الطلاق قبل النكاح — islamhouse.com (42:16)
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