WHISPERING WITH GOD: A Prayer Can Change Your Situation, Any Situation!

Whispering With God:

A Prayer Can Change Your

Situation; Any Situation!

Gift-wrap Your ‘Dua’ (Supplication)

With Darood (Salawat)!

No Darood, No Acceptance!

(M. Javed Naseem)

“The main purpose of the Quran is to

awaken in man the higher consciousness

of his manifold relations with God

and the universe.”

--- Allama Iqbal

(From: ‘The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam’)

Allah is the Supreme Creator and we are His wonderful creation. Man cannot see his Creator (Allah), nor can he talk to Him face to face (until the Judgment Day). The closest he can get is during the prayer (‘Salat’) and supplication (Dua) when he whispers to Him and cries to Him.

Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said: ‘When you pray (offer Salat) do it as if you are in front of Allah (seeing Him). And if you cannot achieve that level, then imagine that He is seeing you’.

Allah is the Creator, Sustainer and the Controller of the heavens and the earth (and whatever is between them). Every living thing in the universe depends on Him for its existence, and glorifies Allah’s name. He declares in the Quran:

“See you not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings

in the heavens and on earth do celebrate, and the

birds (in the air) with wings outspread? Each one

knows its own (mode of) prayer and praise.

And Allah knows well all that they do”.

(al-Quran 24:41)

As per one Hadith, Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said:

‘When a man prays (offers Salat), he whispers with God’.

Prayer and supplication (‘Dua’) is the only way a person can communicate with God in private and directly without any intermediary. This is the best way of establishing a relationship with Allah and maintaining it. The Bible says:

Your invocation (Dua) reflects your Faith (Iman) and trust in God. It shows how much you count on Him and how sincerely you depend on Him. Allah instructed Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) in the Quran to tell the disbelievers or rejecters of faith:

“My Lord pays attention to you only because of your invocation to Him."

“Say: ‘My Lord would not care for you

were it not for your prayer.’”

(al-Quran 25:77)

Therefore, the prayer (or invocation or Dua) is the strongest and the best link between Man and God. All of us, whether sinners or the righteous, are connected to Him via this link. The stronger this link, the closer we get to our Creator, the Almighty. This link (or connection) gets weaker or stronger with the level of our faith (Iman). Stronger faith in God guarantees closer relationship with Him; while the weaker link (weak Iman) brings us farther and farther from God. Remembrance of Allah determines the level of our faith (Iman). The Most Merciful Allah, when He wills, can accept anybody’s prayers, any time, anywhere!

Darood (Salawat & Blessings):

(Darood: Allahuma salli ala Seyyidina Muhammadin …)

Darood is like a gift-wrap! You are supplicating Allah, the Almighty; you are sending Him a request; and you are asking Him for mercy and forgiveness, so it is only befitting that you wrap your request in a beautiful and attractive packing. And there is no better gift-wrap (packing) than Darood. Allah and His angels send their blessings via Darood on the Prophet (s.a.w.) and Allah commands all Muslims in the Quran that they should also do the same:

“Allah and His angels send blessings on the

Prophet. O you who believe! Send blessings

on him, and salute him with all respect.”

(al-Quran 33:56)

Ibn Masud narrated:

‘I was once praying, and the Prophet (s.a.w.), Abu Bakr (r.a.a.) and Umar (r.a.a.) were all present. When I sat down (in the final Tashahhud, I praised Allah, then sent Salams (Darood) on the Prophet (s.a.w), then started praying for myself. At this point, the Prophet (s.a.w.) said: Ask and you shall be given it! Ask, and you shall be given it!’

(Tirmidhi, No.593, Mishkat al-Misbah, No. 931).

God hears every prayer of every soul, only we don’t understand the way He answers our prayers. We judge Him on our level of priorities, therefore, are sometimes disappointed. He answers all prayers but we see the change in our situation only when the time for it is right; not right away, as we expect. Once again, the acceptance of our prayers depends on our relationship with God. It’s NOT a one-way traffic. God has made it very clear to us: “Remember Me, I’ll remember you!”

It’s very unfair on our part that we ignore God’s commands; don’t do what He tells us to do and keep living a sinful life but at the same time expect God to fulfill our demands or desires immediately. We need to qualify for that.  We need to prove to God that we are trying our best to pursue the path of righteousness with all honesty, sincerity and faith in Him. This qualifies us to ask for God’s help and the help comes – always! But not the way we want it. It comes the way He thinks is better for us.

In the chapter ‘Whispering With God’ of my book “The Way (Sunnah) of The Prophet (s.a.w.)”, I have mentioned 33 occasions when the supplication (Due) is considered to be more acceptable to Allah. Please remember! These are only the recommendations of the scholars. Allah can accept any Dua, anywhere at any time. Allah is the most merciful and He cares for us too!

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