By al-Hâfidh Ibn Rajab
Taken from Khushoo fis-Salaat (p.62) of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali - rahimahullaah
Ibraheem ibn Adham, may Allaah have Mercy upon him, was a third century scholar, a teacher and a companion of Sufyaan ath-Thawree, and he was asked about the saying of Allaah - The Most High:
“And your Lord says: ‘Call on Me, I will answer your prayer…’” [Soorah Ghaafir, 40:60]
“We supplicate and we are not answered.” So he said to them:
Taken from Khushoo fis-Salaat (p.62) of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali - rahimahullaah
Ibraheem ibn Adham, may Allaah have Mercy upon him, was a third century scholar, a teacher and a companion of Sufyaan ath-Thawree, and he was asked about the saying of Allaah - The Most High:
“And your Lord says: ‘Call on Me, I will answer your prayer…’” [Soorah Ghaafir, 40:60]
“We supplicate and we are not answered.” So he said to them:
- You know Allah, Yet you do not obey Him,
- You recite the Qur’aan, Yet you do not act according to it,
- You know Shaitaan, Yet you have agreed with him,
- You proclaim that you love the Messenger of Allah, Yet you abandon his Sunnah,
- You proclaim your love for Paradise, Yet you do not act to gain it,
- You proclaim your fear for the Fire, Yet you do not prevent yourselves from sins,
- You say: “Indeed death is true”, Yet you have not prepared for it,
- You busy yourselves with finding faults with others, Yet you do not look at your own faults,
- You eat that which Allah has provided for you, Yet you do not thank Him,
- You bury your dead, Yet you do not take a lesson from it.”