The remainder of the answer: What is the ruling on supplicating for what one knows Allah will do, such as saying, “O Allah, support Islam and honor the Muslims”?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you: Regarding supplication for what one knows that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, will do, there is no need to tie it to asking Allah to hasten it, like one who supplicates for the support of Islam and the honor of its people. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, as stated in the hadiths of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), is the one who will support this Islam. So a person supplicates and says, “Immediately, not delayed, O Allah, show us that.”
The Shaykh : Supplicating for what we know that Allah will do is permissible. For this reason, we say: “O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad,” so we supplicate for him to be blessed, even though Allah has informed us that He blesses him. So it is a known matter,[Al-Ahzab 33:56].
And we say:Sahih al-Bukhari 4719.
And the wasilah is a rank in Paradise that no one attains except a righteous servant among the servants of Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 384 And this hope of his, if Allah wills, will be realized. And supplicating for the support of Islam and the Muslims does not mean that a person does not believe that Allah will support Islam. Indeed, Allah will support Islam. But this supplication includes that the Muslims should be established in the Islam that deserves support, by holding fast to it. Because the Muslims today, unfortunately, are not on the path they should be on, nor even on the path they must be on. Many Muslims today have turned away from the path of Allah. Turning away from the path of Allah means that they are turning themselves away, and turning others away. How many are negligent in prayer, how many are stingy with zakah, how many are doubtful in the matter of faith in Allah, and how many backbite the servants of Allah, and how many eat the flesh of those who enjoin justice among the people. So the important thing is that the Muslims today, unfortunately, are in a pitiable state. If they had supported Allah by supporting His religion, He would have supported them, just as He supported their righteous predecessors.
We all know that the Arabs were a weak, humiliated, submissive, and poor nation before the message. And after the message, when they held fast to Islam, they became an honorable, dominant nation. So much so that the crown of Kisra, the king of the greatest state at that time, was brought from Madain to Madinah and placed before the hands of the Rightly Guided Caliph 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him). Is there any honor greater than this honor? But unfortunately, the Muslims, as you see today, are negligent. They do not have the strength and determination to defend themselves. And there is no clearer proof of this than what we are in today. In the lands of Islam today, there are those whose honor is violated, whose mosques are demolished, whose wealth is plundered, and whose offspring are taken captive by the Christians. And we are a silent nation; we do not speak, nor does the media speak what we are obligated to speak. And what is done to the Muslims today in Bosnia is a matter that breaks hearts, in reality. If one of us imagined, may Allah protect us from it, for we have only good, that the enemy was on the verge of entering Madinah or had entered Madinah, and his young boys and small youths were taking refuge in him, saying, “O Father, O Father, the Serbs have come to us, the Serbs have come to us,” and they were crying, and his heart was torn apart with blood—do we feel this feeling now? Absolutely not. Each one of us is on his bed with his family, and it is as if nothing is happening to his brothers. Then, as some of the Bosnian brothers said, if this had happened to us from the United Nations, for example, it would have been easier for us than for this to happen to us from the Christians, our enemies. And the Christians are not enemies of Bosnia only, and the Christians of Bosnia are not the only enemies. The Christians are enemies of every Muslim in every land of Allah, whether they are from the Serbs of Bosnia or from others. But unfortunately.
By Allah, a person sometimes does not sleep quickly as he usually sleeps when he remembers these brothers who are besieged by the hands of these aggressive, unjust Serbs.
Then what did the United Nations do? It became the most humiliated thing in this war. The Serbs enter the tanks and weapons in the possession of the United Nations, they enter them while the guards are inside, then they take them and fight the Muslims with them. And we have not heard anyone raise their voice in a resounding manner from the leaders of the Muslims to denounce this action. So where is the mutual support among the Muslims? And how can we support them while we are negligent in this negligence? So when you supplicate to Allah for the support of the Muslims, or for the support of Islam and the Muslims, you are supplicating to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to prepare the Muslims to a state in which they are worthy of support. So we ask Allah the Exalted to restore our honor and our glory, and to reform our rulers so that they fulfill what Allah has obligated upon them. The Muslims today are one billion or more, and yet, as you see, they are a weak, humiliated nation. The media talks about marginal things that they have been talking about for decades and have found nothing, but such major issues. And who can be safe that if they take over this town that they are currently besieging, they will also proceed to Sarajevo, then to Albania, then to all the Muslims in the Balkans? Who can be safe from this? To Allah we belong and to Him we return. And if Allah had willed, they would not have done it, but Allah does what He wills.
The Shaykh : Supplicating for what we know that Allah will do is permissible. For this reason, we say: “O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad,” so we supplicate for him to be blessed, even though Allah has informed us that He blesses him. So it is a known matter,
Indeed, Allah confers blessing upon the Prophet, and His angels [ask Him to do so]
أن الله وملائكته يصلون على النبيAnd we say:
O Allah, the Lord of this complete call and of this prayer, which is going to be established! Give Muhammad Al-Wasila and Al-Fadila and raise him to Al-Maqam-al-Mahmud
اللهم رب هذه الدعوة التامة، والصلاة القائمة، آت محمداً الوسيلة والفضيلة، وابعثه مقاماً محموداًAnd the wasilah is a rank in Paradise that no one attains except a righteous servant among the servants of Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
and I hope that I may be that one
وأرجو أن أكون أنا هوWe all know that the Arabs were a weak, humiliated, submissive, and poor nation before the message. And after the message, when they held fast to Islam, they became an honorable, dominant nation. So much so that the crown of Kisra, the king of the greatest state at that time, was brought from Madain to Madinah and placed before the hands of the Rightly Guided Caliph 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him). Is there any honor greater than this honor? But unfortunately, the Muslims, as you see today, are negligent. They do not have the strength and determination to defend themselves. And there is no clearer proof of this than what we are in today. In the lands of Islam today, there are those whose honor is violated, whose mosques are demolished, whose wealth is plundered, and whose offspring are taken captive by the Christians. And we are a silent nation; we do not speak, nor does the media speak what we are obligated to speak. And what is done to the Muslims today in Bosnia is a matter that breaks hearts, in reality. If one of us imagined, may Allah protect us from it, for we have only good, that the enemy was on the verge of entering Madinah or had entered Madinah, and his young boys and small youths were taking refuge in him, saying, “O Father, O Father, the Serbs have come to us, the Serbs have come to us,” and they were crying, and his heart was torn apart with blood—do we feel this feeling now? Absolutely not. Each one of us is on his bed with his family, and it is as if nothing is happening to his brothers. Then, as some of the Bosnian brothers said, if this had happened to us from the United Nations, for example, it would have been easier for us than for this to happen to us from the Christians, our enemies. And the Christians are not enemies of Bosnia only, and the Christians of Bosnia are not the only enemies. The Christians are enemies of every Muslim in every land of Allah, whether they are from the Serbs of Bosnia or from others. But unfortunately.
By Allah, a person sometimes does not sleep quickly as he usually sleeps when he remembers these brothers who are besieged by the hands of these aggressive, unjust Serbs.
Then what did the United Nations do? It became the most humiliated thing in this war. The Serbs enter the tanks and weapons in the possession of the United Nations, they enter them while the guards are inside, then they take them and fight the Muslims with them. And we have not heard anyone raise their voice in a resounding manner from the leaders of the Muslims to denounce this action. So where is the mutual support among the Muslims? And how can we support them while we are negligent in this negligence? So when you supplicate to Allah for the support of the Muslims, or for the support of Islam and the Muslims, you are supplicating to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to prepare the Muslims to a state in which they are worthy of support. So we ask Allah the Exalted to restore our honor and our glory, and to reform our rulers so that they fulfill what Allah has obligated upon them. The Muslims today are one billion or more, and yet, as you see, they are a weak, humiliated nation. The media talks about marginal things that they have been talking about for decades and have found nothing, but such major issues. And who can be safe that if they take over this town that they are currently besieging, they will also proceed to Sarajevo, then to Albania, then to all the Muslims in the Balkans? Who can be safe from this? To Allah we belong and to Him we return. And if Allah had willed, they would not have done it, but Allah does what He wills.