A PRAYER ANSWERED (Daewat Mustajaba) An article written by Dr. Abdul Karim Zaidan, and it was published in the Iraqi Islamic Education Journal in its nineteenth year, with its sixth issue, in 1397 AH / 1977 CE . Note: The translation below may need revision... We welcome any correction by emailing us Written by Dr. Abdul Karim Zidan 1) Someone who trusts him told me, he said, I attended a council that included a dispersal of people who were not united by a collector other than old age, for they all exceeded sixty and approached seventy of their ages, and their conversations were not based on a single approach and did not aim at a specific goal. And she answered him, and each one of them started narrating what he had heard or seen about the matters of supplication and the speed of his response , and what was said in that council was what one of them had narrated on this subject when he said : 2) Forty years or so ago, I worked in the trade of sheep, bought them from villages and countryside, and sold them in cities. My mission was to wander and circulate around the various parts of Iraq until I became known to most of the people of Iraq’s villages, countryside and valley. While wandering in the southern villages of Iraq, I passed by one of the farms, and its people were busy harvesting their wheat and barley crops, and they used to accumulate what they harvest in certain places in preparation for transporting them to their warehouses. Meanwhile, a boy who was not older than twelve and spread a cloak and started collecting in it what he found on the ground of broken ears and grains that fell from the peasants while they were carrying what they were reaping. And while that boy was busy in his work when a man kissed on his horse with a gun in his hand and anger waved on his face until he approached the boy and shouted at him and took cursing and cursing him and told him what it means did he not exhausted from this work, and he fired his rifle at him and the boy fell and blood was bleeding from his head and chest and then passed That criminal killer was arranged so quickly that he lost sight,As for me, I remained in my place, amazed in front of this heartbreaking scene, the boy fell slashing his blood on the cloak in which he collected some of the grains of wheat and her crushed ears, and a woman came screaming and crying: My son, my son, until I reached him and I moved and reached him, so his mother raised him in her hands while he was a corpse Silent, covering his face, and raising her head to the sky, tears flowing down her cheek, tears almost suffocating her, and she said in a quarreling voice that hardly indicated: (O Lord, I want you to take my son's rebellion, for you are not - meaning I am not - young until you grow up, and are not absent until you come)You are not - that is, you are not - until you are old, and you are not absent until you attend).You are not - that is, you are not - until you are old, and you are not absent until you attend ). Then he wrapped him in the furnished cloak after she threw the pills and ears in it and carried it on her back and walked with him speeding as if she was carrying nothing on her back, but I kept speaking nothing, the sadness held my tongue and I remained dazzled by what I saw, and my sadness increased what I saw of that grieving mother And what I heard from her hot and moving prayers, and the mother hid behind me behind the heaps of wheat and barley, so I moved in the middle of the village houses, and after more than an hour I arrived at the Qom Club (Diwan) and threw myself on a rug while I was very tired and distressed, and if the killer was sitting in front of me at the top of the Diwan laughing and chatting and the attendees They listened to him, then the killer stretched out, took a pillow and placed it under his head, covered his body with his cloak, and soon his snoring and snorting went up and went into a deep sleep, and some of the attendees got up and others remained talking with various hadiths, I hear their voices and I do not understand what they say because I am still astonished by what I saw. The place did not take long for me, and if there was dust erupting from afar, then that dust started getting stronger and approached little by little from the court, which attracted the attention of the attendees, so they stretched out their necks staring at this dust that almost entered their office, and they did not know a reason for it, and if a great black snake came out through that dust and entered the divan and headed The killer was like an arrow fired by a skilled hunter, and the killer shouted a tremendous cry, because that snake had bitten him in his throat, and the crowd roared and shouted and ran out of the court in a rush, and then returned with axes, surveyors and guns wanting to kill the Othman, but the snake did his duty and returned from where he came and disappeared from view.There was turmoil, turmoil and shouting, and they left the court, jostling and jostling, then returned with axes, surveyors, and rifles, wanting to kill the Othman, but the snake fulfilled its duty and returned from where it came and disappeared from view.There was turmoil, turmoil and shouting, and they left the court, jostling and jostling, then returned with axes, surveyors, and rifles, wanting to kill the Othman, but the snake fulfilled its duty and returned from where it came and disappeared from view . 3) And they came to the murdered murderer, and if he had blackened his face and erupted his tongue and became a lifeless body, the shouting rose and the people of the village came and the court was filled with men, women and boys, and the clan sheikh accepted and opened the council for him and he sat, and he heard the story from those who witnessed it, and he was astonished by what he heard and could not explain what happened, so I said to myself Now, it is necessary to speak, because this astonishment has shifted away from me, and the amazement and amazement that came to me went away, and that sadness and sorrow was revealed to myself, so I said: O Sheikh, I am telling you an interpretation of what happened because I witnessed the incident from beginning to end. May God have mercy on so and so - I mean - the slain killer, for he was (Serkala), loyal to us, but we accepted him without what he did, but the matter happened. Then the sheikh ordered the bereaved mother to bring him, and he came with her face blown away with dirt, so he accepted her good news, for God has avenged you against the murderer of your son and his dead corpse, so you completed with words that I did not understand, but I had seen her face showing signs of contentment and sad pleasure.The sheikh ordered her (150) dinars or so - since there was no exact amount left in my memory - as he ordered her for a quantity of wheat and comforted her in her misfortune, as the attendees deplored her, then she left . 4) That is what someone who trusts in him told me, and I do not doubt the veracity of what he told me as he heard him, just as I do not doubt the truthfulness of this incident as narrated by its owner, as there is no need for lying and fabrication, and there is no reason to doubt that it occurred, for God is His Majesty. He says: “And if my servants ask you about me, I am near,” I will answer the call of the supplicant . 5) Nevertheless, someone might say: How do you explain this incident in the light of the meanings of Islam in order to exclude from it the possibilities of chance ? The answer to that is that injustice is a cause of perdition, God Almighty said (And those villages - they were destroyed when they did wrong) and the punishment of injustice afflicts whoever comes out of it or puts it on an individual or a group, and among the consequences of injustice is the destruction of the oppressor or the infliction of torment by him in this world. From the torment of the Hereafter. Al-Sarkal, the murderer of the boy, committed an apparent injustice in killing that boy, and his mother was mourned with it, so he was unjust to her and to him, and thus the cause of perdition was investigated. The second is that the supplication of the oppressed is answered, he said: In the hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, may God Almighty have mercy on him (Beware of calling the oppressed, and if he is an infidel, then there is no veil without him) and the mother of the child is oppressed, and the matter with the supplication of the oppressed is to be answered. Moreover, the mother, despite being bereaved and oppressed, has risen in her heart - and we pray to God - from the facts of faith that made her supplication answered , as her hope and hope for any creature was cut off and she was attached to God alone Her supplication was pure and directed to God Almighty completely, with a firm belief and complete certainty that God Almighty is listening to her supplication and is able to answer her, and these matters are from the core of faith, its truth and its origins, and it is one of the reasons for answering the supplication if it takes place in the heart of the supplicant. Coincidence and what happened will be a lesson to the first of the door ... It is not by chance that the wise person accepts that a snake comes quickly from the wilderness and enters the office and heads to Al-Serkal alone . 6) Someone may say: How many of the oppressed have prayed against his oppressor with a sincere warm supplication, and with this the oppressor remained and the oppressed perished, and this reality makes the possibility of coincidence in what happened to Al-Serkal a permanent and even likely possibility . And the answer to that Our saying: that the supplication of the oppressed is answered does not mean the immediate response nor does it mean the answer in the manner that the one who called to the oppressed wants, because the existence of the reason for the answer to the supplication of the one who does not lead to its result, which is the answer to speed, except if there are no obstacles, and the obstacles to the answer are so many that we do not know, and from These impediments are related to the wisdom of God, for God, the Sublime of His Majesty, is just as He is the Hearer, the Almighty, the mighty, the Vengeance. One of His most beautiful names (the Wise), and his wisdom may require delaying the destruction of the oppressor, whether the oppressed calls upon him or not, as the last of His Majesty calls for the destruction of Pharaoh. That, he may know from this oppressor that he will repent in the future, so that his destruction will not precipitate him. It came in the agreed upon hadith that the Prophet said: (There was a man before you who killed ninety-nine souls, and he asked about the most knowledgeable of the people of the earth, and he referred to a monk and he came to him and said that he killed ninety-nine souls, so does he have repentance? He said no, so he killed him, and he completed a hundred, then he asked about the most knowledgeable of the people of the earth. He pointed to a man of knowledge and said that he killed a hundred souls, so does he have repentance? So he said yes, and whoever prevents him from repentance, he will go to such-and-such land, because there are people who worship God, so worship God with them and do not return to your land, for it is a land of bad, so he set out even if the path is halfway to death, and angels quarrel with it Mercy and the angels of torment, so the angels of mercy said, he came repentant, kissing his heart to God, and the angels of torment said that he had never done good . The indication of this noble hadith is that this man killed a hundred souls wrongfully and aggressively, and God Almighty neglected him and did not hasten his destruction due to a matter required by the wisdom of God Almighty, from which it appeared to us that he repented sincerely. And like another, the infidels of Makkah attacked the Muslims and expelled them from their homes unjustly and then fought them. Nevertheless, God did not hasten their destruction for all of them, as some of them remained until some of them became Muslim and became righteous . 7) We conclude from all of this that injustice is a cause of perdition, and that the oppressed call is answered, but the response to the oppressed’s call depends on the absence of obstacles to response. And injustice leads to perdition if there are no obstacles to the occurrence of perdition . In a comprehensive word: What God Almighty has made a cause for something, this reason does not lead to this thing unless its conditions are fulfilled and its impediments are removed, and this is the case in all material and moral causes that do not lead to their causes and consequences except by eliminating their impediments and fulfilling their conditions . And may God bless our master Muhammad, his family and all his companions, and praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.