The Ruling on Asking Allah to Accept Good Deeds

The questioner: People continue to say, and among them are scholars, when they perform a good deed: "We ask Allah for acceptance." If they had completed the conditions of acceptance in their own estimation, what are the obstacles to acceptance as long as that is the case?The Shaykh: If a person performs a good deed and asks Allah for acceptance, that is part of its completion. Do you not know that Ibrahim and Isma'il were building the Ka'bah and saying: [al-Baqarah: 127] And we know that their work was a good deed based on a sincere intention, and yet they asked Allah for acceptance.

The questioner: I mean, O Shaykh! Some of them reach a level where they fear that it will not be accepted from them,Is there any obstacle? The Shaykh: Yes, they fear that it will not be accepted from them;Because Allah says: [al-Ma'idah: 27] And one does not know about oneself whether he is among the righteous or not, and a person may have a slight amount of showing off in his heart that invalidates the deed. The important thing is that there is no harm in a person making du'a' when he performs a good deed, asking Allah for acceptance.