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Is Making Such Dua Okay? Or Not Appropriate?
My question is that is it allowed to ask Allah to create circumstances that make us eligible for some concession in something required in Deen.
For example a person was invited by his non Muslim boss for a grand lunch in Ramadan, which he wants to attend but he won’t be able to eat anything there. And he thinks in heart that if some due difficulty like traveling or some circumstance was there then Allah would have given him a concession to not fast and make it up later.
He never tried or intended to deliberately create such circumstances by his own, as this would be dishonesty. Albeit he asks Allah requesting Allah to naturally create some circumstance like traveling or something where he would genuinely and naturally be eligible for concession. Is such Dua okay to be made?
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Is Making Such Dua Okay? Or Not Appropriate?
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What is wrong in it? If you feel anything wrong, don’t make it, if do not feel wrong then make it.
A Muslims should respect his faith and rituals and make others respect them.
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@Irfan76 sir for example if a person needs to study a book but it’s available in pirated version, the original version is a little expensive. He only needs to read a little portion to gain some knowledge. If he asks Allah to cause him to unintentionally and naturally read the book some day accidentally, and he would be able to gain knowledge before he realizes that it’s wrong. And in this way he’ll be able to gain knowledge without doing deliberate sin. We would say that this Dua is not appropriate to be made, Because if something that Allah himself dislikes (the Haram of reading pirated book) and we ask Allah to help him in sin.
So I was just wondering that since that person was required to fast for whole month obligatory. Will this Dua be like former example? Where he makes Dua about something that is disliked by Allah? Can it be said like since Allah wants us to fast for this whole month, asking Allah for a concession of missing it would be like asking Allah for something Allah dislikes?
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If something belongs to Allah, He is generous, if something belongs to usurping the right of man it is not acceptable.
One should not pray to avoid one’s obligations but one may ask for easiness.
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@Irfan76 sir can you please give me an example where a person’s Dua would be to avoid obligation?
For example a jihad is taking place in a Muslim nation. And a person feels that he isn’t willing to go to jihad. Can he pray to Allah that Allah doesn’t make it conditions which would make it obligatory on him to go to jihad? Like the ruler summoning that man to go to jihad or he being relieved of other duties which would make him free and obliged to go to jihad?
And sir when you said that one shouldn’t pray to avoid obligation. Does it mean he shouldn’t pray against doing something which has already become obligatory now? Or do you also include in it that a person asks Allah to not create such situations that would make it obligatory on him in future? Can you please give me example about what would fall into avoiding obligation?
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Make an analogy between two people to understand what one should do. A close relative falls seriously ill. You have to take him or her to hospital. You should pray to God not to have this situation but once it has come you can’t avoid it. If you avoid or pray to avoid what your relative would think of you.
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@Irfan76 sir my relative would think that my love for him is not enough that I become willing or eager to volunteer for his help. And that I’m helping him because it was imposed on me like a duty…
So sir I am confused a little, as you mentioned that I should pray to God to not have this situation, do you mean that if my relative got sick then it’s okay to pray that the responsibility to take him to hospital doesn’t fall on my shoulders (like someone else takes takes him there)? But if it’s clear that there’s no one to take him there except me, then It means responsibility is mine and then I shouldn’t pray?
I can deduce what my relative wouldn think but I can’t know that what to deduce that what can be prayed and what can’t be
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Make it simple. One should ask for a ease, and when one has to face a problem, one still ask for ease but fulfill one’s duty.
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