Why is dua not accepted – 5

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 honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions,
a lot of peace and blessings be upon him.
My brothers and sisters, in this whole issue of the questions of how dua can be accepted,
sometimes I remind myself and you, and this is a reminder for all of us that we sometimes do things.
The intention may be good, but we find that the results are not good.
Now, you might say, well, if the intention is good, why is the result not good?
Because in the deen, especially, and of course also in dunya, a good intention alone is not sufficient.
With the good intention, we also need the right method.
And the right method is the method of Rasulullah s.a.w.
The method of the Anbiya, alayhi salam.
If you consider the time that Rasulullah s.a.w. preached Islam, when he first announced Islam,
how did he do that?
He did that in the way that Anbiya, alayhi salam, present their message,
which is clear, without any embellishment, without any change.
Without trying to water it down, without trying to sugarcoat it,
without anything, just straight as it is, as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ordered and commanded,
the Anbiya, alayhi salam, presented that just like that.
Rasulullah s.a.w. stood on Safa and called out,
which was like an alarm call for the people and they came running.
And he said that, I have come to announce to you that there is no one worthy of worship,
and I am not worthy of worship.
I accept Allah, and that if you do not leave the worship of others than Allah,
that you are doing, then you will be punished by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now, if you think about this, and if we look at it from our perspective today,
and the kinds of arguments that we seem to present,
when we talk about dawah, people talk about how we must,
make the message palatable and how we must sweeten it,
and how we must present it in a way which is acceptable in the culture of the people
that we are preaching it to.
And that is how, for example, music came into Islam,
even though it is prohibited, and it came in the name of dawah.
Because people said, well, you know, these people are used to singing,
and these people are used to singing, and they are not used to singing.
And these people are used to dancing, and these people are used to drums,
and these people are used to flutes and to, you know, harmoniums and so on.
So therefore, we will sing khawalis and we will sing anashi,
but the anashi will be sung with music and so on,
because this is what these people are used to doing.
This is how they worship their gods.
And therefore, if we substitute the name of our God for their God,
the job is done.
Think about this.
That is exactly how it came to be.
Now, please understand that, interestingly,
the reason why the leaders of other religions permitted many things,
which were clearly prohibited in their scriptures,
was to become popular and to attract people to their places of worship.
The plea has always been the same.
If we are too strict, we will drive away the youth.
If we are too strict, we will drive away the people.
But just look around you.
Look around you, especially in America, especially all over Europe.
And see what the result of this permissiveness has been.
Right?
Not only is there a degeneration of the values and ethics and morals of society,
but even the places of worship that they tried to populate,
there is, they were unsuccessful.
Right?
For example, adultery and fornication.
Sex outside of marriage.
This has been prohibited in all religions, without exception.
You want to get married, you want to have sex, you get married.
But there is no sex pre-marriage and no sex with someone who you are not married to after you get married.
So that's called adultery.