23/11/2025
4 traits of an answered Dua
1. Humility (Tadarru‘)
This means showing submission, brokenness, earnest pleading, and expressing one’s need and poverty before Allah.
2. Fear (Khīfah)
To accompany your supplication with fear of Allah, reverence for Him, and dread of being held accountable for shortcomings in your deeds—so that the soul becomes humble and the heart submissive.
3. Secrecy (Khufyah)
To make your supplication quietly and privately, not aloud. This is more sincere, closer to being answered, and further from showing off.
4. Hope (Ṭama‘)
To express your longing and hope in what Allah has, due to the vastness of His mercy, generosity, and bounty.
Practice these etiquettes in your supplication, and you will find happiness, peace of heart, and—by Allah’s will—your prayers answered.
Reflect on these verses:
- “You call upon Him in humility and privately” (6:63)
- “Call upon your Lord in humility and privately ” (7:55)
- “And remember your Lord within yourself in humility and fear ” (7:205)
- “And call upon Him in fear and hope” (7:56)
(Dr. Ahmad bin Muhammad Al-Khalil’s scholarly channel) (t.me/alkhalil_1)
