Why is dua not accepted – 1

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions, peace and blessings be upon him.
My brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, we live in times where more and more it is essential for us to live and be in a state where our duas are accepted.
Because we are faced with situations, either directly or we find other people are faced with situations.
So we are indirectly affected.
We seem to be completely out of control of human beings.
But at least out of control of those human beings who are affected.
Because after all they are created by human beings, so they are not out of control.
But at least the people being oppressed, the people on the receiving end of the problem,
they don't seem to have anything to do with the problem.
They do not seem to have any control on the problem.
So, and we are therefore, we have to turn to Allah because there is only He, Jalla Jalaluhu, who has complete and total control over everything.
That is His Shaan.
And therefore we turn to Allah.
Now, when we do that, we know Allah told us to turn to Him.
He said,
Allah said,
I will give you and I will accept your dua.
I will listen to you.
Yet we find that we ask Allah over and over again for many things.
And these are good things.
These are things which are critical and essential for us.
But we find that this dua is not acceptable.
It is not.
We know Allah listens.
There is no doubt about that.
But we also know that we are, we don't get what we ask for.
So big question is,
uh,
why does that happen?
Why is it that we are in the situation where we are asking Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Allah told us to ask and we are asking it,
yet we are not given and it doesn't happen for us.
To answer the question,
let me tell you,
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give you the reasons from the,
in the voice and in the words of,
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one of the greatest of the scholars of,
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Islam,
Ibrahim bin Adham,
Rahim bin Ali,
who was the son of one of the nobles of the kingdom of Balkh,
which is in modern day Afghanistan.
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his most famous student was Shaqeeq al-Balki,
Rahim bin Ali,
whose student was Hatim al-Assam,
Rahim bin Ali.
I did a series of,
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lectures and classes on the wisdom of Hatim al-Assam,
Rahim bin Ali,
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which,
inshallah,
maybe we will,
repeat because people's memories are short.
And,
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also because it is important to remind ourselves again and again about these very important matters,
even if our memory is good.
Um,
in those stories also is the very beautiful story of the daughter,
little daughter of Hatim al-Assam,
Rahim bin Ali,
which at some point I will also tell you.
Now,
Ibrahim bin Adham,
Rahim bin Ali was known for his asceticism,
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and,
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he is the one about whose story I have mentioned to you of how he went,
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to the first Sheikh that he found when he left his kingdom.
And,
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this Sheikh made him stay in the stable of his horse for 12 years.
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he went to,
he met the Sheikh and he asked him,
he told him,
I want to be a student.
And the Sheikh said,
well,
uh,
there is one condition.
The condition is that you must obey me.
I mean,
I'm not going to obey you completely and totally.
I mean,
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Ibrahim Adham said,
of course,
I mean,
you know,
that's why I'm here.
You're my Sheikh.
Of course I will obey you.
So he said,
then he pointed to a building,
an outbuilding,
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away from his house.
And he said,
go and stay in that building.
Now Hatim al-Assam went there and he found that it was a stable of a horse.
It's very surprising.
Why would the Sheikh send him to stay in the horse stable anyway?
So in that stable,
he,
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cleaned it out and he,
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put his,
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bedding to,
on one side.
And,
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he,
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in the evening,
when the groom of the horse,
the man who took care of the horse,