{"id":13159,"date":"2018-12-17T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:50:23","slug":"the-importance-of-effort-with-duaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13159","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Effort with Du\u2018aa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/effort.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13160\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/effort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/effort.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/effort-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>Making du\u2018aa is extremely important and I do not deny it\u2019s significance in any way. However, it is important for one to understand that merely sufficing on du\u2018aa without making a concerted effort to improve one\u2019s life is incorrect. One will not see improvement in one\u2019s life through sufficing on du\u2018aa.<\/p>\n<p>Allah Ta\u2018ala mentions in the Qur\u2019aan Majeed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: 'Traditional Arabic'; font-size: 16pt;\">\u0642\u064f\u0644\u0652 \u0625\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0643\u064f\u0646\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u062a\u064f\u062d\u0650\u0628\u0651\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u0647\u064e \u0641\u064e\u0627\u062a\u0651\u064e\u0628\u0650\u0639\u064f\u0648\u0646\u0650\u064a \u064a\u064f\u062d\u0652\u0628\u0650\u0628\u0652\u0643\u064f\u0645\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u0647\u064f \u0648\u064e\u064a\u064e\u063a\u0652\u0641\u0650\u0631\u0652 \u0644\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0630\u064f\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0628\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u06d7 \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u0647\u064f \u063a\u064e\u0641\u064f\u0648\u0631\u064c \u0631\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u0645\u064c \ufd3f\u0663\u0661\ufd3e<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>O Muhammed (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)! Say (to your ummah), \u201cIf you (claim to) love Allah then follow me, (through following me,) Allah Ta\u2018ala will make you beloved to him and forgive your sins, and Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, you should endeavour to follow the blessed sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) to the best of your ability and be punctual upon your ibaadaat with abstaining from all sins. Du\u2018aa will show its effect and assist a person when he makes an effort as well, just as certain medications are beneficial to a person when they are coupled with the correct diet, dosage of medications, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder and think that no person\u2019s du\u2018aa could ever be equal to the du\u2018aa of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). If du\u2018aa alone was sufficient and there was no need for one to make an effort, then merely on account of the du\u2018aa of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam), everyone would have accepted Islam and no person would have remained on kufr. Adhere to the sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) to the best of your ability, for it is through adhering to the sunnah that one\u2019s du\u2018aa will prove beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>(Qutbul Aqtaab Hazrat Sheikhul Hadith Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) pg. 411)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned: Making du\u2018aa is extremely important and I do not deny it\u2019s significance in any way. However, it is important for one to understand that merely sufficing on du\u2018aa without making a concerted effort to improve one\u2019s life is incorrect. One will not see improvement in one\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,14],"tags":[345,410],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-shaikh-rahmatullahi-alaihi","category-malfoozaat","tag-hazrat-shaikh","tag-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13164,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}