Why are duas not accepted?

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Ya Ikhwan al Kiram, my dear respected brothers, sisters, elders.
We are on the fourth of the pieces of advice that were given by Ibrahim A.S. to the people of Basra
when they asked him why their duas are not accepted.
We live in a time today when we desperately want our duas to be accepted.
Because most of us are completely immersed and we are caught up in things that seem to be completely out of our control.
And the only thing we have is the recourse to asking Allah for His help.
And if that help doesn't come, then that is a very serious matter.
And this was the state of the people of Basra and they asked him this question.
They said, why is it that our duas are not accepted?
And he gave them ten reasons.
That's a checklist for all of us to think about.
The first three reasons I mentioned in my last two khutbas.
The first one was, he said, you have known Allah .
But you do not fulfill His rights.
You have known Allah , but you do not fulfill His rights.
And the second one he said is that you read the Kalam of Allah.
You read the Book of Allah, but you do not live by it.
You read the Kitab of Allah, but you do not live by it.
And the third thing he said is that you claim to love the Messenger Muhammad .
The Messenger Muhammad , but you do not follow him.
You do not make his itiba.
The fourth one he said, he said, you claim to be enemies of shaitan, but you align with him.
You follow shaitan.
Now, Allah had told us the history of shaitan.
Why shaitan became shaitan.
Allah said,
And We created you, then We made you in the form of images.
Then We said to the angels,
prostrate yourselves to Adam
and prostrate yourselves to him, but to Iblis.
He was not of those who prostrated himself.
He said, What prevents you from prostrating when I have commanded you?
He said, I am better than him.
He said, You have created me from fire and He has created you from clay.
Allah said, Allah is saying to Adam and saying to us, surely, We created you and shaped you,
then commanded the angels and said to the angels prostrate before others.
Make sajdah of the azeem, the sajdah of respect, make it to Adam .
So they all did, but not Iblis, who refused to prostrate with the others.
Allah said, what prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?
And of course Allah knows.
But Allah , whenever He asked these questions, this is to establish evidence
for the slave or against him, by his own utterances, by his own replies.
So Allah is asking him, why did you refuse?
What prevented you from prostrating, from obeying my command?
And he said, I am better than he is.
I am better than he is.
Ana khayrun minhu.
You created me from fire and you created him from clay.
Khalaqtani min naar wa khalaqtahu min naar.
You created me from clay.
You created me from clay.
The biggest lesson that we learn from the story of shaitan's fall into disgrace and
worse is the problem of arrogance.
The problem of exclusivity of saying, no, everybody else is doing something, but I am
different.
Everyone else says something, but I have a different opinion.
In my opinion.
The Qur'an says this, the sunnah says this, the hadeeth says this, the ayama says this,
but in my opinion.
And I've said this a million times, but in my opinion, is the name on the door of Jahanna.
Because if you have an opinion, in the presence of the Kitab of Allah, in the presence of
the hukm of Rasulallah , Allah spoke this word, Hasan.
He went pretty far, came about, he came about, where not in Shaitan, we find life.
But come upon me nowadays, the same person, who was called Hanab and Al-Habib etc.
He came down, came after Allah .
He's gone.
Even when we rebelled.
He came down now, everything is right after Allah does not do Allah .
Even when you searched the medicines there, you see that she came up to comparison,
and your opinion is different from those things,
then you are doing what Shaitan did.