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ET'S LEARN OUR ISLAM
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Supplication is a Way to Draw Closer to Allah
Allah attaches great importance to supplication. Allah relates the
importance of supplication in the verse stating:
"Say: 'What has My
Lord to do with you if you do not call on Him? ….' " (Surat al-
Furqan: 77)
As this verse suggests, a person's value before Allah
depends on his prayer. That is because a person who prays asks for what
he needs from Allah alone. Allah is the Owner of everything.
Allah creates everything we need. Take, for example, the food that
is essential for human life. Allah creates vegetables, fruit, chickens, cows
and so on. Allah creates your parents and all the people around you.
Allah, the All-Mighty, endows people with the bodies, intelligence,
knowledge, strength, health and the opportunities they enjoy.
As mentioned earlier, Allah creates all these as blessings for us. We
owe the food we eat to Allah. Similarly, we owe the ability to eat this food
to Allah. Think of this for a moment! How would you be able to chew
your food without your teeth? How would you digest it without your
stomach? Would the existence of food have any meaning if we did not
have digestive systems?
You are nourished by Allah's will. Because it is Allah Who gives all
blessings to us, it is Allah to Whom we must pray when we want
something to happen or to obtain something. Consequently, we must ask
for everything from our Lord.
