Al-Mujib

The One who answers supplications. Allah Almighty says: "And when My servants ask you concerning Me — indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided." (Al-Baqarah, 186) Supplication is the most important of the stations of servanthood. The purpose of supplication is not to inform but to display servanthood — to make one's approach while presenting humility and lowliness. Since this is the purpose, supplicating Allah while being content with His decree and destiny is not a preference for the human share, but a reverence for Allah's power above all else. And this is the greatest of stations. Explicitly stating what is asked for is not among the necessities of supplication. There are times when, for the people of presence who know propriety and their place, one's state is more courteous than words. To say, "O my Lord, I am in Your presence; my state is known to You," is — according to the station of the speaker and the degree of truthfulness and sincerity of his heart — more eloquent than the most eloquent of supplications. The transmitted evidence concerning supplication is so abundant that only disbelievers could deny it: "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." (Ghafir, 60); "Call upon your Lord in humility and privately." (Al-A'raf, 55); "Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him?" (An-Naml, 62); "Say: 'What would my Lord care for you if not for your supplication?'" (Al-Furqan, 77); "Then why, when Our punishment came to them, did they not humble themselves? But their hearts became hardened." (Al-An'am, 43) — and many verses besides. The last of these shows that Allah is displeased with those who do not supplicate and ask. As long as the heart of the one supplicating is occupied with anything besides Allah, he has not truly supplicated. When he is free of everything other than Allah, he plunges into the knowledge of the Truth's oneness. As long as he remains in this station, he refrains from considering his own claim and from seeking his human share; all intermediaries are lifted, and then nearness to Allah comes about. For as long as the servant is turned toward his own desire he cannot draw near to Allah, since that desire becomes an obstructing intermediary. When it is lifted, the entrusting expressed in the verse "And I entrust my affair to Allah. Indeed, Allah is Seeing of [His] servants" (Ghafir, 44) appears with complete sincerity. The Muslim should always be conscious that he is in need of Allah and should rely and depend on Him alone. He should not forget that He hears supplications, knows the trials and afflictions that come upon him, and is aware of his distress and difficulty; and he should not fall into despair. What he supplicates and asks for should be requests that draw him nearer to Allah.

The noble name Al-Mujib is recited 55 times at sunrise as "Ya Mujib, jalla jalaluhu" so that supplications may be answered. Whoever fasts for twenty-three days and recites the noble name Al-Mujib, saying "Ya Mujib, jalla jalaluhu", in order to bind the tongues of the obstinate and of evil people, the tongues of the wicked are bound against him.