Waiting on salvation I prayed for

Assalaamu Alaikum,
 
May Allah ease any hardships and difficulties you are going through in life. May He grant you endurance and sabr as you wait for His guidance, blessings and salvation.

Dua’a is our best weapon in this and faith in His willingness to listen, accept and grant them. As Muslims we are also tasked with believing that Allah’s wisdom & timing for when our dua’s get granted is greater than our understanding and anticipation. Once we accept, then it becomes a matter of figuring out what to do to increase the chances of our duas being accepted. Here are some steps I recommend:


1.     Belief that He will accept and grant your needs/wishes when it is best for you. He will be the God that you believe He is.
2.     Decrease the sins in your life and increase implementing sunnahs.
3.     Increase your effort: Making dua during the time of tahajjud while you are in sujjud is the closest we can get to Allah and the greatest time of acceptance for duas.
4.     Never give up. Your persistence and effort shows how badly you want Allah to accept your duas. If we are not ready to put in the work it takes to get these blessing how can we expect Allah to grant them.


I understand the difficulty of bearing un-answered prayers. Know that often times our unanswered wishes Allah’s way of protecting us. We don’t know if a relationship, a car, a house, or a degree will be harmful for us in this dunya or worse, harmful for our aakhira. Also it is also important to remember that Allah’s guarantee for fulfilling our duas and granting us ease does not include only in this life. Our duas can also be reserved to benefit us in the afterlife. Finally the best of us, the prophets of Allah had some of the biggest tests of unfulfilled duas. Let’s follow their example of patience and trust in Allah’s wisdom and plan for us inshaAllah.

From,

“Fatima AH”

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu!


I can hear how deeply exhausted you are from waiting. When you have been making du’a for something for a long time, especially while life itself feels extremely difficult, the waiting can become painful in ways that are hard to explain. Please remember that Allah sees the struggle behind your du’a. Your tears, your longing, your patience, and even the moments when you wonder, Ya Allah, how much longer? are all known to Him.


Allah says:
“And when My servants ask you concerning Me, indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of every supplicant when he calls upon Me.”
(Qur’an 2:186)Your du’a has not disappeared simply because you haven’t seen the answer yet.


At the same time, I would gently encourage you not to put too much certainty on a particular timeline or on signs that you believe mean something is definitely going to happen soon. We can have strong feelings, intuitions, or hopes, but only Allah knows the unseen. A feeling that something is coming is not the same as a promise from Allah that it will happen at a particular time. That doesn’t mean your hope is wrong. Keep hoping. Keep making du’a. But leave the when and how with Allah. The Prophet ( SAW) taught us that a person’s du’a is answered so long as they do not become impatient and say, essentially, I made du’a, but I wasn’t answered. And Allah reminds us: “Indeed, with hardship comes ease. Indeed, with hardship comes ease.”(Qur’an 94:5–6)


Sometimes the hardest part is not knowing when the ease will come. So perhaps instead of telling yourself, This has to happen soon, otherwise something is wrong, try telling yourself: Allah knows what I need. Allah knows when I need it. I will continue asking Him, but I don’t have to know the timeline. You can make this Dua: O Allah, if this matter is good for me in my religion, my worldly life and my Hereafter, decree it for me, make it easy for me and bless it for me. And if it is harmful for me, turn it away from me and turn me away from it. Decree for me whatever is good wherever it may be, and then make me content with it.


And one more thing: you don’t have to wait for your hoped-for future before allowing yourself to receive small pieces of mercy today.Eat. Rest. Pray. Go outside. Talk to someone safe. Do something that brings your heart a little softness. Seek professional support if your circumstances are overwhelming. None of that means you have stopped trusting Allah.Tawakkul doesn’t mean sitting in agony until Allah changes your circumstances. It means taking the next step while trusting Allah with the outcome.


May Allah bring you relief from what is hurting you, give you sabr without making you feel abandoned, protect you from what you cannot see, and grant you what is genuinely best for your dunya and akhirah. Aameen!! And when His answer comes whether it looks exactly like what you imagined or something even better .May Allah make your heart recognize His mercy in it.
Ameen!!

Warm regards,

From your Sister in Islam,

“Fatima MV”