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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the difference between the meaning of the questioner and the supplicant in the hadiths?

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What is the difference between the questioner and the supplicant?
The questioner is more specific, for he asks for a particular thing. It is the norm that the questioner asks for a specific thing that is hastened for him in this world:
Is there any questioner to whom his request will be granted?هل من سائلٍ فيُعطى سؤله
. So the questioner is more specific than the supplicant. The supplicant may be a worshipper, or he may be a questioner. Allah the Exalted says:
Call upon Meادْعُونِي
This was interpreted as "Worship Me" and interpreted as "Ask Me." So every questioner is a worshipper, but not every worshipper is a questioner. The one who prays is a worshipper and a supplicant by his action, the one who gives charity is a supplicant, and the one who strives in the path of Allah is a supplicant by his action. The one who says, "My Lord, forgive me and have mercy on me," is a supplicant, but he is more specific in asking. The one who says, "Give me such and such, and provide me with a righteous child," is more specific in asking. Even though he is a worshipper by asking, he is more specific in asking. So what is in the form of asking: "Forgive me, have mercy on me, give me a righteous wife, make me independent of so-and-so, make me independent by Your bounty"—this is more specific in asking. Prayer and fasting are more specific in worship. Both are called supplication. It is said: "He supplicated" meaning "he worshipped," and "he supplicated" meaning "he asked." And asking is more specific.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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