Request:
Assalamualaikum warahmatulla hiwabaraqatu,
I have been very stressed out about this issue but I hope I will not be judged negatively.
Shaykh, staffs, haji/ hajjah’s,
I’ve been praying and I have asked dua‘s many times but yet nothing has occured in the sense my dua‘s were probably not accepted. Some people say it will be but most probably in the after life. However, I honestly think it has to do with me. I do not know how to pray with intensity, passion and 100% concentration. I am positive that if any of these are being endeavored within my soul, there is a slight chance my dua‘s maybe accepted. How do I get that feeling? And If this is not it What is wrong?
Response:
wa `alaykum salam,
In general most of our du`as are not accepted because we are too busy making sins. That is why it is best to ask someone pure and (nearly) sinless to pray for us, for their du`a is acceptable.
The Prophet (s) said:
Indeed Allah – the Most High -is good and accepts only that which is good. Allah has ordered the Believers to do that which He commanded the Messengers. Allah – the Most High -has said:
{0 you Messengers! Eat of the good things and do righteous actions.} (Surat al-Mu’min, 23:51).
And He – the Most High – says:
{O you who Believe! Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you.} (Surat al-Baqarah 2:172).
Then he mentioned the case of a man who, having joumeyed far, and is dishevelled and dusty and spreads out his bands to the sky (in du`a) :’ O Lord! O Lord!’
Meanwhile his food is unlawful, his drink is unlawful and he is nourished unlawfully. So how can he be answered!
and Allah knows best,
Taher Siddiqui
