بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah,
the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Allah likes His bondsmen to pray to Him. If a man,
however munificent he may be, is again and again
asked for anything, he sooner or later loses his
patience and becomes angry. But Allah, on the
contrary, is, pleased the more His bondsmen ask
Him. Hadith tells us that Allah is displeased with
one who does not ask Him for anything in prayer.
Praying is not only a means of realizing one's purposes
but is, in itself, an act or worship. In other words praying
even for one's personal ends and worldly needs is counted
among acts of worship and earns merit. The more one prays
the closer one gets to Allah. It is not necessary to pray only
in times of need or of distress: rather, praying in times of
pleasure and plenty is also necessary.
Allah has promised in the Qur'an
'Pray to Me and I shall fulfill it''.
This Divine promise can never be wrong so one must pray with
Belief and trust in its fulfillment. But fulfillment can take different
forms; sometimes one gets what he prays for, but sometimes the
desired object is not regarded by Allah as beneficial or useful to
His bondsman and so he is granted something better in this life
or Hereafter. Thus every act of praying has three advantages :
1) Divine grant of prayers fulfills our desires ;
2) Every prayer earns merits ; and
3) Repeated acts of praying bring one ever
closer to Allah
Although the correct method of praying is to face the
Qiblah and raise one's hands and pray with tongue,
prefacing the prayer with praise of Allah and darud
(Salawath on Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم ),but one can also
pray without these preliminaries too. Thus Allah has
made the act of praying so easy that one can also,
pray almost anywhere and at any time; one can pray
while engaged in any activity and if one cannot intone
the prayer as e.g. in the toilet, one can think his prayer.
Also it is not necessary to pray for big or important things;
one should pray to Allah asking him to fulfill all
Consequently one should develop the habit of asking
Allah to fulfill even the smallest need, to seek Divine
betterment of the most ordinary trouble. Just as a child
calls his mother for everything big or small, one should
call and go on calling Allah. No matter what work one
may be engaged in, one should always ask Allah for
something or the other. Cultivate this habit and see
how quickly you rise.
Easy good deeds
by Mufti Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani
In the Name of Allah,
the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Allah likes His bondsmen to pray to Him. If a man,
however munificent he may be, is again and again
asked for anything, he sooner or later loses his
patience and becomes angry. But Allah, on the
contrary, is, pleased the more His bondsmen ask
Him. Hadith tells us that Allah is displeased with
one who does not ask Him for anything in prayer.
Praying is not only a means of realizing one's purposes
but is, in itself, an act or worship. In other words praying
even for one's personal ends and worldly needs is counted
among acts of worship and earns merit. The more one prays
the closer one gets to Allah. It is not necessary to pray only
in times of need or of distress: rather, praying in times of
pleasure and plenty is also necessary.
A hadith tells us that one who desires his prayers in
times of sorrow and distress to be answered, should
pray in times of happiness and plenty.
( Trimidhi cited in Jami'al Usul)
Allah has promised in the Qur'an
'Pray to Me and I shall fulfill it''.
This Divine promise can never be wrong so one must pray with
Belief and trust in its fulfillment. But fulfillment can take different
forms; sometimes one gets what he prays for, but sometimes the
desired object is not regarded by Allah as beneficial or useful to
His bondsman and so he is granted something better in this life
or Hereafter. Thus every act of praying has three advantages :
1) Divine grant of prayers fulfills our desires ;
2) Every prayer earns merits ; and
3) Repeated acts of praying bring one ever
closer to Allah
Although the correct method of praying is to face the
Qiblah and raise one's hands and pray with tongue,
prefacing the prayer with praise of Allah and darud
(Salawath on Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم ),but one can also
pray without these preliminaries too. Thus Allah has
made the act of praying so easy that one can also,
pray almost anywhere and at any time; one can pray
while engaged in any activity and if one cannot intone
the prayer as e.g. in the toilet, one can think his prayer.
Also it is not necessary to pray for big or important things;
one should pray to Allah asking him to fulfill all
one's wants, big or small; hadith tells us to pray
even when one breaks his shoelace.
(Tirmidhi)
Consequently one should develop the habit of asking
Allah to fulfill even the smallest need, to seek Divine
betterment of the most ordinary trouble. Just as a child
calls his mother for everything big or small, one should
call and go on calling Allah. No matter what work one
may be engaged in, one should always ask Allah for
something or the other. Cultivate this habit and see
how quickly you rise.
Easy good deeds
by Mufti Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani
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