Volume Two

Introduction

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Understanding Supplications and Remembrances

By Abd al-Razzāq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May blessings and peace be upon the leader of the messengers and the one chosen by the Lord of the worlds—our Prophet Muhammad—and upon all his family and Companions.

To proceed: This is the second section of the book Understanding Supplications and Remembrances. It is devoted specifically to supplication and contains a range of useful topics, beneficial discussions, and important issues that every Muslim man and woman needs. The most prominent subjects covered in this section include the following:

• An explanation of the virtue of supplication, its importance, and its place in the upright religion of Islam.
• The conditions that should be met for a supplication to be accepted by Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
• The proper manners that should be observed by anyone who calls upon Allah, Mighty and Majestic, so that the supplication may be complete, the person’s hope fulfilled, and the request granted.
• The virtue of the transmitted supplications and the perfection of their wording and meanings, as well as an explanation of how they encompass the loftiest requests and the most perfect noble aims.
• The danger of deviant supplications and invented litanies, and the immense harm they inflict upon those who cling to them and persist in observing them.
• A warning against associating partners with Allah in supplication, and an explanation that this is the gravest deviation to have occurred in this area.

An explanation of the prescribed forms of seeking a means of approach to Allah, and a warning against a number of deviations