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Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "A servant’s supplication is answered as long as he does not ask for sin or severing ties of kinship, and as long as he does not become impatient." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is impatience?" He said: "He says: ‘I have supplicated, I have supplicated, but I have not seen a response,’ so he becomes frustrated and abandons supplication."
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Commentary and footnotes (2)
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(3) The statement: "As long as he does not become impatient," etc. Al-Nawawi said: "This indicates that one should persist in supplication and not consider the response delayed." Al-Kirmani said: "Here, the condition for the supplication being answered is the absence of haste and refraining from saying, ‘I supplicated but was not answered.’" This is mentioned in ‘Umadat al-Qari. Ali al-Qari said: "The response comes in different forms: either granting exactly what was asked at the desired time, delaying it for a wisdom that necessitates postponement, warding off an equivalent evil, giving something better than what was requested, or storing its reward for a day when the supplicant will be in greater need of it."
Note 3
(۳) قوله: ما لم يستعجل إلخ وقال النووي: ففيه أنه ينبغي إدامة الدعاء، ولا يستبطئ الإجابة، وقال الكرماني: هنا شرط الاستجابة عدم العجلة وعدم القول أي قوله: دعوت فلم يستجب لي». قاله في عمدة القاري». وقال علي القاري: إن الإجابة على أنواع منها تحصيل عين المطلوب في الوقت المطلوب، ومنها وجوده في وقت آخر لحكمة اقتضت تأخيره، ومنها دفع شر بدله أو إعطاء خير آخر خير من مطلوبه، ومنها ادخاره ليوم يكون أحوج إلى ثوابه.