not making dua

Atra wrote: asep garut wrote: Atra wrote: Assalamu alaykum everyone, I'm aware of the fact that Allah can be angry with those who don't make dua. So, I have a problem with it. Even though I do a lot of dhikr, regular salat, some nawfl, reading Quran etc, I feel so ashamed to ask Allah for anything except repentance, like I'm not worth it. Every time I feel the same. So, can anyone give me good guidance on how to break this bad habit and feeling? Wa’alaikumussalam Atra, Allah commands us to pray only to Him as in His word (40:60), therefore, the shame you have is also good because it is one of the characteristics of those who believe in Allah. Perhaps you should also try not to continue to feel unworthy to get it, because it will hamper your du'a to be granted by Allah as in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam. Try to mention a lot of "Laa Ilaaha Illallaah" whether you are standing, sitting, and lying down. Jazakallahu Khair!  On the other hand I'm afraid to make me feel worthy in sense of danger to "grow" arrogance. And still, while trying to make dua I raise hands and telling myself "you should be more grateful for what you already have" and then I give up   And I do gratitude for everything, including gratitude for magnetic field around the Earth  but still feel like it's not enough. I do shahadah a lot as well.  So how to break my unworthiness and not grow the arrogance?

اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

Atra, I will try to give you a solution to what you are facing now, and for the basis of this description I take the sura An-Naas 114: 1-6.

Devil or satan is the main enemy of man who can not be denied anymore because many verses of the Qur'an that explain about it, for an example in Sura Al-Baqarah 2:208

Therefore, Satan will always tease man forever.

Among the satan's weapons is to spread anxiety among human beings. This disease will be implanted into the human heart with the aim to cause doubt at the human heart.

With such weapon, Satan will be able to make a Muslim hesitant with the worship he does, one example is not convinced of his prayer (du'a), and it is already a mental disorder, in other words whatever he does, his heart is always in a state of anxiety.

The goals of satan tease the human among others is to cause boredom in doing good things (including in worship), so that with such an anxiety disease can cause a person to fall into the act takalluf (burdening himself to the forbidden).

From Abu Hurairah R.A., the Prophet Muhammad Shallallaahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam said:

“Verily, Islam is easy, it is not a person who burdens himself in religion unless he will be invincible.” (Narrated by Bukhari 39, An-Nasai 5034).

Here are some ways to treat anxiety disorders, including:

1.    Do not care: if anxiety disease is served, then the disease will continue to grow.

2.    Take an opposite attitude to what you doubt (please ask me if it is unclear).

3.    Keep practicing with patience : one of the motivations you may cultivate in your heart is all the feelings of anxiety that arise in you is actually one of the forms of temptation of satan, and the effort you are undertaking to eliminate the anxiety is also your attempt to resist the temptation of the satan with patience, or indeed you are doing jihad, and if the struggle against this Satanic temptation is accompanied by sincere intentions of Allah and following the sunna of Prophet Muhammad Shallallaahu ' Alaihi Wasallam, Insha Allah you will get a change and reward from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

4.    Often ask for protection from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala from the temptation of Satan.

5.    Worship by searching for his true knowledge: a Muslim who has a true knowledge of worship, besides he will be able to eliminate those feelings, he will also achieve blessing from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Conclusion:

Besides all the efforts that you do above, do not forget to multiply dhikr, read The Quran and Ta'awudz,

may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will free you from such anxiety disorder.

Below the additional prayer (du'a) that I often do, hopefully will be useful for you:

 اَللَّهُمَّ �£َعِذْنِي مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ، اللَّهُمَّ �£َجِرْنِي مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ، اَللَّهُمَّ احْفَظْنِي مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ، اَللَّهُمَّ �£َعِنِّي عَلَى ذِكْرِكَ وَشُكْرِكَ وَحُسْنِ عِبَادَتِكَ، اَللَّهُمَّ احْفَظْنِي مِنْ مَكَائِدِ عَدُوِّكَ الشَّيْطَانِ،

“O Allah, protect me from the satan. O Allah, guard me from the satan. O Allah, help me to remember You (dhikr to You), to give thanks to You and make worship to You. O Allah, guard me from the deceit of my enemy (that is) Satan.”

I apologize that I am not meant to patronize you but because it is based on the command to help each other in kindness and piety as in the word of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in sura Al Maidah 5:2

 وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ 

Atra wrote: asep garut wrote: Atra wrote: Assalamu alaykum everyone, I'm aware of the fact that Allah can be angry with those who don't make dua. So, I have a problem with it. Even though I do a lot of dhikr, regular salat, some nawfl, reading Quran etc, I feel so ashamed to ask Allah for anything except repentance, like I'm not worth it. Every time I feel the same. So, can anyone give me good guidance on how to break this bad habit and feeling? Wa’alaikumussalam Atra, Allah commands us to pray only to Him as in His word (40:60), therefore, the shame you have is also good because it is one of the characteristics of those who believe in Allah. Perhaps you should also try not to continue to feel unworthy to get it, because it will hamper your du'a to be granted by Allah as in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam. Try to mention a lot of "Laa Ilaaha Illallaah" whether you are standing, sitting, and lying down. Jazakallahu Khair!  On the other hand I'm afraid to make me feel worthy in sense of danger to "grow" arrogance. And still, while trying to make dua I raise hands and telling myself "you should be more grateful for what you already have" and then I give up   And I do gratitude for everything, including gratitude for magnetic field around the Earth  but still feel like it's not enough. I do shahadah a lot as well.  So how to break my unworthiness and not grow the arrogance?

Can you give an example of your unworthiness is like?

Wassalaam.

Atra wrote: Assalamu alaykum everyone, I'm aware of the fact that Allah can be angry with those who don't make dua. So, I have a problem with it. Even though I do a lot of dhikr, regular salat, some nawfl, reading Quran etc, I feel so ashamed to ask Allah for anything except repentance, like I'm not worth it. Every time I feel the same. So, can anyone give me good guidance on how to break this bad habit and feeling?

Wa’alaikumussalam Atra,

Allah commands us to pray only to Him as in His word (40:60), therefore, the shame you have is also good because it is one of the characteristics of those who believe in Allah.

Perhaps you should also try not to continue to feel unworthy to get it, because it will hamper your du'a to be granted by Allah as in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam.

Try to mention a lot of "Laa Ilaaha Illallaah" whether you are standing, sitting, and lying down.