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Originally Posted by ToBeFair
When you pray to God, does He respond? The answer is yes. He responds to every prayer. The Islamic belief is, God responds to your prayer in three different ways:
1. He gives you what you have asked for
2. He does not give you what you have asked for, but removes equivalent amount of harm from your life
3. He does not give you 1 and 2, but He will reciprocate you on the Day of Judgment
Is everything pre-destined? The answer is Yes. Whatever God has destined for you, will never miss you, and whatever God has not written for you, will never reach you.
Now the question comes, what is point of prayer or asking from God?
The question is similar to: If God is self sufficient, why do we need to worship Him?
The reason you need to pray to and ask from God is because you do not know what is destined for you. Thus, you show your need to God and God loves when we show our need to Him.
He is the only entity that loves to be asked for things and hates when He is not asked for, whereas His creation, conversely, gets irritated whenever asked for any favor.
Thus, have the best intention and though about God and ask from Him. Rest assured, He will give you what is best for you at the right time, and do not get tricked into philosophical discussion about the need for making prayer and its relationship with predestination.
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What’s the difference between someone who doesn’t ask but gets, and someone who does but doesn’t get? What’s the significance in that?
You ask God to give knowing that his the one who holds power to make even the imperfect, the perfect? You don’t ask just for the sake of asking.
By human nature what is within our capacity we don’t ask, what is beyond our capacity we ask him for, since he has all the powers to perfect that.
There are many who don’t worship God at all nor ask for anything, but they get.. what they want.. even though someone who prays day/night doesn’t get?
Curious to know how this works?