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GOD ANSWERS EVERYONE'S PRAYERS

God answers the prayers of those who are

in distress and need
Prayers are the times when one's closeness to God is
explicitly felt; it is a time when one grasps God's closeness
and how, as a servant of God, he is in need of Him. This is
because when one prays, he grasps how weak and humble he
is before God, and perceives that no one except God can ever

help him. The sincerity and candidness in one's prayer
depends on how desperately he is in need. For example,
everybody prays to God for peace in the world. Yet, someone
-who is desperate in the middle of a war would pray more
earnestly and humbly to God. Similarly, people, during a
storm in a ship or in an airplane in danger of crashing, would
beg humbly to God. They will be sincere and submissive in
their prayer. God relates this fact in a verse as follows:
Say: 'Who rescues you from the darkness of the land
and sea? You call on Him humbly and secretly: "If
you rescue us from this, we will truly be among the
thankful." (Surat al-An'am: 63)

In the Qur'an, God commands man to pray with humility:
Call on your Lord humbly and secretly. He does not
love those who overstep the limits. (Surat al-A'raf:
55)
In another verse, God states that He answers the calls of

the oppressed and those who are in need:
He Who responds to the oppressed when they call
on Him and removes their distress, and makes you
inheritors of the earth. Is there another deity besides
God? How little you pay heed! (Surat an-Naml: 62)