12. THE WISDOM BEHIND DELAYING ANSWER OF SUPPLICATIONS
I wonder at how persistent you are when it comes to asking Allah all that you want! The more your supplications are unlikely to be answered the more persistent you become! Yet you seem to forget that your supplication is not answered because either that will be lor your own good as you may ask for what may harm you, or due to your sins for the ones with sins are far from having their wishes answered.
Consequently cleanse the roads leading to the answer from all the dirt of sins and then look into what you are asking for, whether it is good for your religion or just a mere desire.
If it was the latter, then you should know it is from the Mercy of Allah and His Kindness that request is not answered. When you become persistent in asking for it you become like a child insisting on having what harms him but he is not allowed to have it in order to protect him. And if it is for the sake of your religion, then perhaps it is the best to have it postponed or even not have it granted to you.
Overall, the planning of Allah for you is certainly better than the plans you have set for your own self. He may avert what you wish to test you, so show Him the good patience (sabr al-jamil) you have and then you will see what will please your heart.
Whenever you cleanse the roads leading to the answer from the dirt of sins and endure all that He decreed for you patiently, you will understand whatever happens to you is better for you whether you were granted something or prevented from something.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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