Hawzah News Agency – Prayer (Duʿāʾ) means the asking of a servant for his needs from Allah, the Exalted. Nothing can elevate a person to Allah, the Exalted, better than his neediness to Him.

The more a person is aware of his neediness to Allah, the closer he is to His mercy. On the contrary, the more arrogant he becomes, not realizing his neediness and dependency on Allah, the farther he shall be from His mercy.

The more persistent a person is in his petition to Allah, the closer he shall be to His mercy. The climax of asking from Allah is when one is in need of Him desperately, such that he has no other choice but that Allah should answer his prayer.

By desperately we mean a state in which a person loses all other means of attaining his wish, and there remains for him only one choice; a choice whose affair lies solely in the hand of Allah and not in his hand. Subsequently, he turns to Allah, the Exalted, in desperation. It is in such a condition that a servant is the nearest of all things to Allah’s mercy.

In fact, there is no separation at all between the supplication of the distressed and the response from Allah in removing his distress. This state of being in desperate need of Allah during supplication implies detachment from all other than Allah, and turning to Him alone; otherwise the act of supplicating and asking from Allah would no longer be considered as stemming from desperate need toward Him.

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