The Art of Asking God: The Complete Supplication
This is the sixth in a series of articles on how make dua or supplication from the seminar The Art of Asking from God by shaykh Faraz Rabbani, shaykh Abdullah Misra and shaykh Ahmed El-Azhary.
The complete supplication is:
- Asking Allah by the tongue
- Striving to attain it by the body
- With contentment with Allah in the heart
- Servanthood and neediness in one’s being
Let your heart not be shaken, rather be completely content with Allah. Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever would like for Allah to answer him during times of hardship and difficulty, let him supplicate often during times of ease.”
The one who gets used to asking Allah in easy times already develops a relationship. If you ask Allah when it is easy for you but you are still making yourself desperate, that is the time when that relationship has been developed and so you actually do a deeper dive when you need to ask Allah for something when you are in trouble.
One person asked, “Why am I not being answered in my supplication” and the response was, “Because you do not know the One who you are asking.” This is why you keep having to go back.
We have to try to keep making supplication because that is what kindles that love. That is how we will connect to Allah. The best thing you can ask Allah for is that which He asks you for which is your servanthood, which is all of the different states of being that Allah wants to see from you.
We approach Allah brokenhearted. Yahya ibn Mu’adh prayed, “My dear God! How can I make Dua to You when I am so sinful? But how can I not make Dua to You when You are the Most Generous?”
The whole realization is to be with Allah in this world and the next.
