May Allah's peace, mercy and his greetings be upon you!
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds
and may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon the messenger Muhammad
and upon all his family and companion.
Welcome all!
Some atheists say, "We called upon God but He didn't respond to us."
"Why didn't God destroy our enemy even though we called upon Him so many times!?"
Prophet Muhammad PBUH says in the authenticated Hadith in both Bukhari and Muslim:
"Three men, amongst those who came before you, set out until night came and they reached a cave,
so they entered it.
A rock fell down from the mountain and blocked the entrance of the cave.
Each one of them started to call upon God the Almighty with the best deeds he had done.
The rock was only moved slightly by their continuous dua [supplication] and the best deeds they have done before.
The first man was treating his parents in a very good way
that he awaited with the bowl in his hand for them to wake up till morning.
The second man departed [abandoned] from committing adultery even all circumstances was all ready for him.
The third one saved the wage of the worker who has worked for him for years
until that wage has become mountains of welfare [treasures]."
Great supplications require great deeds.
Prophets and righteous forefathers (who came after them) were calling upon God
while they were on horseback - Adopting means to reach an end
Prophet Noah PBUH called upon God [dua] after 950 years of hard working, sedulity of his mission.
Supplication isn't a word but it's worship.
Prophet Muhammad PBUH says in the authenticated Hadith:
"Verily supplication is worship."
There're a few points if you follow will lead for your supplication to be responded by God if He wills and determines.
The first thing is righteous deeds.
Look thoroughly in the condition of the three men (in the previous Hadith) and what they had done.
Think over the Hadith of Prophet Muhammad PBUH as he says:
"Verily supplication is worship."
Vicious deeds will never make your dua [supplication] come true.
Prophet Muhammad PBUH says in the authenticated Hadith:
"Prophet PBUH mentioned the case of a man who, having journeyed far, is disheveled and dusty,
and who spreads out his hands to the sky saying "O Lord! O Lord!,"
while his food is haram [unlawful], his drink is haram, his clothing is haram, and he has been nourished with haram,
so how can his supplication be answered?"
The second thing is adopting means to reach an end.
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 40, Verse 60]:
"Call upon Me; I will respond to you."
Allah also says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 8, Verse 60]:
"And prepare...."
Why do we accept a verse and ignore the other one?
The third thing is invocation.
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 7, Verse 55]:
"Call upon your Lord in humility and privately"
Supplication in a way of testing God's - as atheists do -
is transgression not supplication.
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 7, Verse 55]:
"indeed, He does not like transgressors."
The fourth thing is not to haste.
Prophet Muhammad PBUH says in the authenticated Hadith:
"The supplication of every one of you is granted if he does not grow impatient
and says: I supplicated but it was not granted."
The fifth thing is thinking over the wisdom of your affliction.
And this point is considered the garden of righteous people who think over and look thoroughly.
You gotta think over the wisdom of your affliction.
There are some kinds of afflictions that are the biggest good for man.
For instance, have a look on the moment that mongols invaded the Islamic countries
and have another look a century after that issue.
What people thought was affliction and disaster was an actual goodness!
Hundreds of Muslims among us today are descendants of mongols.
Ibn Al-Athir says in his Book of history; (Al-Kamel) during the mongol invasion:
"How can I record obituary of Islam and Muslims in my book?!
I wish I was never born!"
Ibn Al-Athir didn't know that the mongols invasion was one of the greatest incidents for the Islamic nation.
Those mongols had admired Islam and entered into the religion of Allah in multitudes.
All of Turkmens, Turkestan, Uzbek, Crimea, Kyrgyz and Turkish are descendants of Tatars [mongols].
Many of us, also, suffer in pain for calamity afterwards we discover that it was the greatest benefit.
In our life, we may cry for an incident
afterwards we laugh after we've discovered what we've gained from that calamity.
So you gotta call upon God the Almighty
and He will determine what it's best for you.
If God answered everyone with what they please,
the heavens and the earth would have been ruined.
A man wants to be the strongest one on earth.
A man wants to be the richest one on earth.
Another man wants to be the only man on earth.
A woman hopes that her ex-husband dies.
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 23, Verse 71]:
"But if the Truth had followed their inclinations,
the heavens and the earth and whoever is in them would have been ruined."
So you gotta call upon God the Almighty and He will determine what it's best for you - as He's the Wise.
Prophet Moses PBUH invoked Allah's imprecation upon Pharaoh the king
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 10, Verse 89]:
"Your supplication has been answered." So remain on a right course"
Although the perdition of Pharaoh took many years after that dua [supplication] - he didn't die at that time.
Prophet Abraham PBUH called upon God, as Allah says in The Noble Qur'an [Chapter 2, Verse 129]:
"Our Lord, and send among them a messenger from themselves
who will recite to them Your verses and teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them.
Indeed, You are the Exalted in Might, the Wise."
Allah the Almighty answered that supplication hundreds of years later (2000 years later).
Finally, you must know that God responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him even though he was a disbeliever.
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 27, Verse 62]:
"Is He not best who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him?"
All people on earth whatever they were Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists, Deists or even Hindus
called upon God in desperate.
I can't forget that day when I lost my ID and it had remained only one day to be hired.
I only had that one-day-chance
or else I'd be delayed for a whole year.
After search for the ID for about 2 weeks, I decided to pray the prayer of need.
As soon as I had finished the prayer, I found the ID.
Also I can't forget the months I spent aching in pain from a strange disease.
I went to major doctors and read the biggest medical references.
I also conducted various health checks.
Finally I resorted to God the Almighty as I was so desperate.
At the same time, I browsed a medical reference before me - as I'm a doctor - I found my disease.
After months of searching.
I took a single pill, and all pain vanished.
So many humans - Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists, Buddhists, Agnostics or Deists resorted to God
at the time of desperate and no hope at all
and God the Almighty responded to his supplication and saved him.
I knew some atheists who resorted to God at the time of suffering and hardship,
and God removed their troubles at once.
For more than a year, a young atheist girl from Tunisia. She has lived in an atheistic communist family.
She contacted me and said, "I've no interest in religion; Apatheism."
A few days later, I received a message from her saying the declaration of faith [Shahadatayn].
Of course it was a great surprise for me!
She said to me, "I was in a terrible accident and only a second separated me from death.
So I called upon God and said O my Lord!
and I saved miraculously."
She wrote to me while she was in the hospital.
The more surprising about this matter
is that she became an atheist again months after that terrible accident.
Allah says in The Noble Qur'an; [Chapter 17, Verse 67]:
"And when adversity touches you at sea, lost are all those you invoke except for Him.
But when He delivers you to the land, you turn away from Him.
And ever is man ungrateful."
We all know the supplication of desperate.
And that God is so near.
And He responds to our supplications in the time of suffering and desperation.
I wish you share with us your personal experiences concerning supplication of desperate
and how God the Almighty responded to you
so that atheists may benefit from those comments
May Allah's peace, mercy and his greetings be upon you!
"It is He who enables you to travel on land and sea until,
when you are in ships and they sail with them by a good wind and they rejoice therein,
there comes a storm wind and the waves come upon them from everywhere
and they assume that they are surrounded, supplicating Allah, sincere to Him in religion,
"If You should save us from this, we will surely be among the thankful."
But when He saves them, at once they commit injustice upon the earth without right.
O mankind, your injustice is only against yourselves, being merely the enjoyment of worldly life.
Then to Us is your return, and We will inform you of what you used to do.
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