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Ramadan – The month of supplication (2)
Everyone must supplicate!

Everyone must supplicate!

 

Mankind mostly turns towards Allah at the times of sufferings and hardships; and says “Ya Allah”, “Ya Rahman”, “Ya Shafi”, “Ya Kafi” and “Ya Razzaq”; but he forgets Allah at the time of luxuries and affluence; the air of pride and arrogance fills his chest and he doesn’t consider himself weak and needful any further, thus disobeying the commands of Allah arrogantly.

With little wealth and respect, health, status and position, power and youthful strength, he becomes so wile that he doesn’t see anyone and in other words, he loses himself, walks arrogantly on earth; and as if the world is at their disposal, he considers others as slaves and valueless, while he feels proud of himself; he looks at the other servants of Allah with eyes of disgrace and deviates from Allah, thus becoming the example of the following verse:

وَإِذَا أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ أَعْرَضَ وَنَأَى بِجَانِبِهِ وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ فَذُو دُعَاءٍ عَرِیضٍ

“When We bless man, he is disregardful and turns aside; but when an ill befalls him, he makes protracted supplications”.

For this group of people, supplication and the expression of need and demand in the divine threshold, is more compulsory than the entangled and afflicted group. The entangled and afflicted group doesn’t need the teaching of supplication so much because their afflictions itself drive them towards supplication.

But this group possessing wealth and bounties, must be invited towards supplication and they should be asked to continuously invoke Allah and be grateful to Him; so that they become humble and modest, lessen their claims, and do not distance themselves from Allah’s men; and do not contaminated with the dirt of arrogance and rebellion.

Therefore, supplication is a general and comprehensive program. Every person, as per his potential and ability, benefits from it and even the apostles and messengers of religion have profited from it, as they supplicated and invoked Allah more than others.

 

 

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