Why dont the Sufees think that Allaah listens to those who call upon Him directly? Na`oodhu-billaah! They attribute to Him weaknesses that He needs to have a Waseelah to hear or answer our Du`aa. Indeed, this is a manifest slander. Allaah is free from what they attribute to Him. Whereas we have ample of Aayaat and Ahaadeeth where we have been COMMANDED to ask Allaah تعالى directly: {Indeed Allaah has heard the statement of her that disputes with you concerning her husband.} [Surah Al-Mujadilah (58): 1] Imam Ahmad recorded that `Aishah said, All praise be to Allaah, Who hears all voices. The woman who disputed came to the Prophet and argued with him while I was in another part of the room, unable to hear what she said. Allaah the Exalted and Most Honored revealed this Ayah, (Indeed Allaah has heard the statement of her that disputes with you concerning her husband.) till the end of this Ayah. Al-Bukhaaree collected this Hadeeth without a chain of narration in the Book of Tawhid in his Sahih. An-Nasai, Ibn Majah, Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Jarir also collected this Hadeeth. In the narration that Ibn Abi Hatim collected, `Aishah said, Blessed is He, Whose hearing has encompassed all things. I heard what Khawlah bint Tha`labah said while some of it I could not hear. She was complaining to Allaahs Messenger about her husband. She said, `O Allaahs Messenger! He spent my wealth, exhausted my youth and my womb bore abundantly for him. When I became old, unable to bear children, he pronounced the Zihar on me! O Allaah! I complain to you. Soon after, Jibril brought down this Ayah. [Tafseer Ibn Katheer] {And when My servants ask you (O Muhammad concerning Me, then answer them), I am indeed near (to them by My knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me (without any mediator or intercessor). So let them obey Me and believe in Me, so that they may be led aright.} [Surah Al-Baqarah (2): 186] {You we worship, and You we ask for help from.} [Surah Al-Faatihah (1): 5] {And your Lord said: Call upon Me, I will answer you. Verily, those who scorn My worship they will surely enter Hell in humiliation!} [Surah Al-Ghafir (40): 60] Narrated Abdullah bin Abbas: One day I was behind the Prophet; and he صلى الله عليه وسلم said to me: Young man, I shall teach you some words [of advice]: Be mindful of Allaah, and Allaah will protect you. Be mindful of Allaah, and you will find Him in front of you. If you ask, ask of Allaah; if you seek help, seek help of Allaah. Know that if the Nation were to gather together to benefit you with anything, it would benefit you only with something that Allaah had already prescribed for you, and that if they gather together to harm you with anything, they would harm you only with something Allaah had already prescribed for you. The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried. [Tirmidhi, Hadeeth 2516, classified as Sahih by Shaikh Al-Albaanee] Narrated Anas: Whenever drought threatened them, Umar bin Al-Khattab, used to ask Al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib to invoke Allaah for rain. He used to say, O Allaah! We used to ask our Prophet to invoke You for rain, and You would bless us with rain, and now we ask his uncle to invoke You for rain. O Allaah! Bless us with rain. And so it would rain. [Sahih Al-Bukhaaree Vol. 2, Hadeeth 123]
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