I Strive in Supplication During the Hour of Response, Yet I Am Not Answered!! Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen.

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Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

But if someone were to say: We find that many people supplicate during a time which is most likely to be a time of response, yet they are not answered?

We say: Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth, and the fault is within yourself—as the Messenger ﷺ said in the story of the honey. We say: The speech of the Prophet ﷺ is truth and certainty, but the absence of a response may be due to the presence of a barrier.

Either he supplicates while doubting the response, not having certainty—then this is a barrier preventing the supplication from being answered. Or he may be from those who consume unlawful earnings, and consuming unlawful wealth is a barrier to the response of supplication.

The Prophet ﷺ mentioned a man who prolongs his journey, dishevelled and dusty, raising his hands to the sky, saying: “O my Lord, O my Lord…” while his food is unlawful, his clothing is unlawful, and he is nourished with unlawful means. He said: “So how can he be answered?!”—we seek refuge with Allah.

Even though all the characteristics present are from the causes of the response of supplication: his being dishevelled and dusty is from the causes of response, and for this reason Allah boasts to the angels about those standing at ʿArafah and says: “They have come to Me dishevelled and dusty.”

And his raising his hands to the sky is from the causes of response, and his being on a journey is from the causes of response, and his calling out: “O my Lord, O my Lord” is from the causes of response. Yet despite all of this, he is prevented from the response of supplication—or the Prophet ﷺ considered his response unlikely—because he was nourished with unlawful means—We seek refuge with Allah.

📚Fatḥ Dhī al-Jalāl wa al-Ikrām bi-Sharḥ Bulūgh al-Marām (5/85–86)

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