Ibn Taymiyyah on Duʿā in Someone’s Absence
May 18, 2025 § 1 Comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “Supplicating for someone in their absence is far greater in [terms of] being answered than doing so in their presence, that is because it is more complete in sincerity and further removed from shirk.”
Qāʿidatun fit-Tawassul, p. 263.
Al-Badr on Shaiṭān Waiting for you to Come Outside and How to Protect Yourself
June 22, 2024 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ʿAbdur-Razzāq al-Badr, Allaah protect him, said:
“But take note of a point here: every time you leave your house a shaiṭān is there waiting for you to come out.
Every time.
Every time you leave your house there is a shaiṭān waiting by your house—he has no other job except to wait for you to come out, and his mission and aim is well-known.
And he has helpers.
So when you say:
بِسْمِ الله، توكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله، وَلا حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إلاَّ بِالله
Bismillāh. Tawakkaltu ʿalallāh. Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwta illa billāh.
“In the name of Allaah. I trust in Allaah. There is no might and no power but with Allaah.”
You are protected from his evil and that of his helpers and this shaiṭān then turns to his aids and brothers and tells them to lose hope in you, saying, ‘What are you going to do with a man who has been guided, defended and protected?’
That is why it is not fitting for a Muslim to deprive himself of this profound good and excellence, so he should make sure to say this great dhikr:
بِسْمِ الله، توكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله، وَلا حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إلاَّ بِالله
Bismillāh. Tawakkaltu ʿalallāh. Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwta illa billāh.
“In the name of Allaah. I trust in Allaah. There is no might and no power but with Allaah.”
Sharḥ al-Wābil aṣ-Ṣayyib, lesson no. 22.
Ṭāwūs and His Companions
May 24, 2024 § 2 Comments
“From Ibn Abī Rawwād who said, ‘When Ṭāwūs and his companions would finish praying ʿAsr, they would turn to the qiblah and not speak to anyone and then they would humbly implore Allaah in duʿā.”
Az-Zuhd, 2209.
“People Will Come Across a Time When …”
May 8, 2024 § Leave a comment
Hudhaifah bin al-Yamān, Allaah be pleased with him, said, “People will come across a time when the only people who will be saved in it will be the ones who make duʿā like a drowning person would.”
Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaibah, 37134.
Ibn Taymiyyah on Seeking Forgiveness
October 25, 2022 § Leave a comment
In the nine volume collection of Ibn Taymiyyah’s works which Shaikh ʿUzair Shams checked and brought to light bi ithnillah, the Shaikh of the Shaikhs of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, said, “A person’s seeking forgiveness from Allaah [istighfār] is more important than all duʿās.”
Jāmiʿul-Masāʾil, vol. 6, p. 277.
On Mobile Phones and Du’aa
March 11, 2019 § Leave a comment
“’Ibn Mas’ood, may Allah be pleased with him, saw a man supplicating to Allaah while holding a stone, so he said, ‘When you beseech your Lord for some good then don’t ask Him while you have a stone in your hand.” Az-Zuhd of Ibn Mubaarak, 84.
Shaikh Abdur-Razzaaq al-Badr said, ‘Such things in their hands would weaken their devotion when supplicating. What have mobile phones done to the hearts then and how much have they turned away and hindered people from the Knower of the Unseen?’”
Uthaimeen On Persistence in Du’aa
April 20, 2018 § Leave a comment
Shaikh Uthaimeen, may Allaah have mercy on him said, “One of the most important conditions of du’aa is sincerity to Allaah عزوجل, such that in his du’aa a person feels his destitution before his Lord, and knows that Allaah تعالى will answer his du’aa, He said, “When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them) …” [2:186] … and a person needs to be insistent in his du’aa and repeat it, even if a response to it is initially delayed, or delayed a second time, let him repeat it, for Allaah تعالى might not answer a servant [of His] the first time so that he increases in his supplication to his Lord and so that he feels the need for Him even more, and it is also a test for him—will he continue asking Allaah or will he become weary and stop? So be persistent in supplicating to your Lord, brother Muslim, for He loves those who are persistent in their du’aas …”
Make Du’aa for Every Single Need
February 18, 2016 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ’Uthaimeen, may Allaah have mercy on him, said, “You must, Yaa akhi, supplicate to Allaah for all of your general and specific concerns, both the difficult and easy ones, and if the only thing to be gained from making du’aa was the fact that it was considered worship of Allaah, it would befit a person to covet it.”
Fatawa Arkaan al-Islaam, p. 45.
When the Act of Supplicating Becomes More Precious than the Actual Need You Were Supplicating For
September 13, 2015 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam, Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allaah grant him a place in Firdous, said, “… and its equivalent in this world is like someone who is facing a most severe calamity, or acute poverty or disquieting fear and so starts to supplicate to Allaah and implore Him humbly until Allaah then bestows upon him such pleasure in conversing with Him that it becomes more beloved to him than the original need he had been supplicating for—but he could not have known that initially so as to seek and yearn for it.”
Al-Fataawaa, vol. 1, p. 28.
’Uthaimeen on Du’aa
September 1, 2014 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ’Uthaimeen, may Allaah have mercy on him, said, “One of the conditions for one’s du’aa to be answered is that when a person supplicates he should feel as though he is in the most dire need of Allaah سبحانه وتعالى, and that Allaah تعالى Alone is the One who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and that He is the One who removes evil. As for a person who supplicates to Allaah عزوجل whilst feeling as though he can manage without Him سبحانه وتعالى and that he is not in need of Him and instead just asks Him as a habit [of his], then such a one is not worthy of being answered.”
Fataawa Arkaan al-Islaam, p. 60.
’Uthaimeen: “When You Ask Allaah You are a Winner in Every Situation.”
March 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ’Uthaimeen, may Allaah have mercy on him, said, “Be aware of the fact that when you ask Allaah you are a winner in every situation, because He سبحانه will either give you what you ask for or divert an evil which is greater [than what you asked for] away from you or He will store it away for you as reward on the Day of Resurrection. So whoever supplicates to Allaah then he will not be let down—so supplicate to Him a great deal, and seek forgiveness and turn in repentance to Him a great deal.”
Sharh Riyadis-Saalihin, vol. 6, p. 52.
When Ibn Baaz Lost his Eyesight, His Mother was Sitting Next to him Crying, upon Seeing that the Prince’s Wife told Her to …
February 20, 2014 § Leave a comment
“Shaikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Humoodi mentioned a story to me about His Eminence, Shaikh ’Abdul-’Aziz ibn Baaz’s mother, so I asked him to write it which he did and for which I am grateful, dated 11/10/1421. Here is the text of the letter:
الحمد لله وحده، والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
Thereafter, at the request of my brother ’Abdul-Aziz ibn ’Abdullah as-Sadhaan that I write down for him the story of what happened to our father, His Eminence, Shaikh ’Abdul-’Aziz ibn Baaz, may Allaah’s Mercy be on him, and on our parents and all Muslims, [I present the following].
’Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Naasir ibn Jaabir from Riyaadh told me that the Shaikh, may Allaah have mercy on him, lost his eyesight at the prime of his youth. His mother’s residence, and she was from the family of Huzaim, was in a district called Dikhnah, to the east of al-Hakm Palace. She used to have a neighbour who was the wife of Prince ’Abdul-’Aziz ibn Turki Aal-Su’ood.
[One time] the Prince’s wife visited her and Shaikh ’Abdul-’Aziz [then only a youth] was sitting beside his mother who was crying over him. So she asked her, ‘Why are you crying, Yaa Umm ’Abdil-’Aziz?’ So she replied that ’Abdul-’Aziz [Ibn Baaz] has lost his eyesight and that who [now] would look after his affairs?
So she said to her, ‘Crying will not bring anything back. Instead, seek Allaah’s Aid and perform ablution and pray two rak’ahs to Allaah and ask Him that just as He has taken his sight that He give him knowledge [in its place] which will benefit him and the Muslims.’
And Allaah answered his mother’s supplication.
And Allaah is the One who grants success.
Was-Salaamu ’alaikum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Hamoodi.’”
Al-Imaam Ibn Baaz, Duroos wa Mawaaqif wa ’Ibar, p. 114.
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