‘How Can The Answer Not Be Delayed?’

 
Wahb bin Munabbih رحمه الله also said, “He who supplicates without good deeds is like one who shoots an arrow without a bow.”

 

Some of the Pious Predecessors said, “How can the answer not be delayed when you have blocked its path with sins??” 

A poet reiterated the same meaning saying: 

God in every distress,

And forget Him when our distress is lifted.

How can we hope that our prayer will be answered,

when we have blocked its path with sins?”

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Imaam Ibn Rajab | Jaami’ al ‘Uloom wal Hikam