He Wants To Test The Real Person You Are
Beware of falling into despair lest answers to prayers take a long time because Allāh is the Sovereign Possessor (al-Mālik), the Most Wise (al-Ḥakīm) and Best Planner and the One Who knows the best for your affairs. You need to heed to the fact He wants to test the real person you are, to see your devoted supplications to Him and to reward you for your patience (ṣabr).
Know that He tests you with delaying the answers of your supplications to combat the whispers (waswasa) of Iblīs. Each one of these reasons is enough to increase the level of your hope in Allāh's grace and calls for thankfulness (shukr) of Allāh because He preferred you with trials in order to turn to Him—for it is nothing but affluence when a person becomes in need, and then turns to Allāh for His help.
[Book: Captured Thoughts by al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, p. 316 | Translated from the Original Arabic | Dār as-Sunnah Publishers]
Beware of falling into despair lest answers to prayers take a long time because Allāh is the Sovereign Possessor (al-Mālik), the Most Wise (al-Ḥakīm) and Best Planner and the One Who knows the best for your affairs. You need to heed to the fact He wants to test the real person you are, to see your devoted supplications to Him and to reward you for your patience (ṣabr).
Know that He tests you with delaying the answers of your supplications to combat the whispers (waswasa) of Iblīs. Each one of these reasons is enough to increase the level of your hope in Allāh's grace and calls for thankfulness (shukr) of Allāh because He preferred you with trials in order to turn to Him—for it is nothing but affluence when a person becomes in need, and then turns to Allāh for His help.
[Book: Captured Thoughts by al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, p. 316 | Translated from the Original Arabic | Dār as-Sunnah Publishers]