It was said to Ibrahim bin Adham: What’s wrong with us that we supplicate and we receive no answer?
Ibrahim said:
- It’s because you know Allaah and you don’t obey Him.
- You know the Messenger and you don’t follow his Sunnah.
- You know the Qur’an and you don’t act according to it.
- You eat from the blessings of Allaah and you’re not thankful for it.
- You know Paradise and you don’t seek it.
- You know the Hellfire and you don’t flee from it.
- You know Iblees and you don’t fight him but rather you agree with him.
- You know death and you don’t prepare for it.
- You bury the dead and you don’t learn from it.
- You ignore your own faults and you’re concerned with the faults of others.
Source: Tafsir al-Qurtubi 2:186
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