The barriers of the fulfillment of Doa-1

In the previous posts we talked about some matters which are effective in the fulfillment of Doa.

Here is an important question. We mentioned some verses in which Allah said: I will fulfill your Doa, but sometimes we see that our Doa is not fulfilled, so is there any barrier or obstacle from the fulfillment of our Doa?

Some of the scholars in the field of morality bring an example in this regard, they say that when we plant a seed in the soil and all of its necessary needs are provided like the light of sun, or the fertile soil or the well seed but if there is any barrier like the extreme cold, the seed cannot have its perfect growth. So the same analogy is applied to our discussion, we must remove the barriers for the fulfillment of our Doa. So let’s see some of the barriers in brief.

One of the most important barriers is that we are not faithful to the covenant of Allah.

Some of us expect Allah to fulfill our Doa as soon as we call Him, but we do not think that do we listen to the commands of Allah and obey Him? Here is an interesting and meaningful story. There was an illiterate porter in the city of Tabriz in Iran who was carrying the loads of others, in a day he was passing in a mall, he stopped somewhere to rest, on that time suddenly a child who was playing on the roof fell down from there, the porter just said: “Hold it”. The people who were there saw that the child stopped in the air and the porter got near and took the child and gave it to its mother. The people got so much shocked from the high position of that porter. They asked him: Who are you? Are you a Prophet or an Imam or a magician? The porter answered: I am none of these persons. I am the same simple porter that works for you for some years. I obeyed Allah throughout my lifetime and listened to everything he ordered, and now I asked Allah once and Allah listened to my asking.

Someone might say that this is just a story and it might not be a true event, but when we deeply think about the lesson behind that we see that it is an undeniable fact and it is not something strange at all.

A group of people asked Imam Sadiq peace be upon him: Why is not our Doa fulfilled? The Imam answered: “Because you do not act according to your covenant before Allah, while He said: “Fulfill my covenant, and I will fulfill your covenant” (chapter Bagharah verse 40)

I swear by Allah if you fulfill the covenant of Allah, Allah also fulfills your covenant.”

To be continued.