In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving

 

All praise is due to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon His Messenger Muhammad.

 

Brother, we have to trust our Lord; He is All-Wise and All-Knowing. We are to proceed in this life following the legitimate reasons for our objectives and then leave the result for Allah Almighty. We have also to balance between our goals and our responsibilities seeking Allah’s help and assistance to fulfill them.

 

Du’a (supplication/prayer) is one of our strong weapons in this life to achieve what we aspire for and to fulfill our responsibilities. But still the answer to our supplication refers to the Wisdom and knowledge of Allah.

 

Sometimes, the answer is delayed for some wisdom that we are not aware of. Sometimes it is out of Allah’s mercy that a specific supplication is not fulfilled.

 

The Messenger of Allah said, “The supplication of anyone of you will be answered if he does not grow impatient and says: I supplicated but it was not answered.“

 

Moreover, the answer may take a different form. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) tells us that “There is no man who calls upon Allah with a supplication, except that he is answered. Either it shall be granted to him in the world, or reserved for him in the Hereafter, or, his sins shall be expiated for it, according to the extent that he supplicated – as long as he does not supplicate for some sin, or for the severing of the ties of kinship…“

 

So, brother, keep firm faith in Allah and pray humbly to him to make you pleased with His divine preordainment.

 

Almighty Allah knows best.