I have taken a solemn promise that I will donate 5% of whatever I personally profit from the business project will go to charity.
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Salaam
ala khum.
I am
in international trading. I have since recently experienced that I get very
good opportunities for business projects. These business projects would provide
employment to so many people in
I
place all my prayers to Allah for his assistance and guidance and pray
constantly for the success of the project. Unfortunately the business projects
gets stalled not from my side but from my Buyers side even though when the
negotiations gets started, it goes smoothly.
I truly
beleive that what ever Allah wills, it happens. I have taken a solemn promise
that I will donate 5% of whatever I personally profit from the business project
will go to charity.
Please
let me know what special prayers I should offer to set my business projects
more successful.
Thank
you for your advise.
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Answer:
Dua for success wealth
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there
is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad
(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
The Messenger of Allah (saws) guided the believers to, in
absolute awe, humility, fear and hope, call upon their Lord and make sincere
supplications for whatever lawful their hearts might desire….it is expected
that their Lord will respond to their lawful supplications.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 186:
And if My servants ask
you, O Prophet, concerning Me, tell them that I am quite near to them. I hear and answer the prayer of the
suppliant, when he calls on Me. So let them respond to My call and believe in
Me. (Convey this to them), perhaps they may be guided aright!
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2257 Narrated by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
The Prophet (saws) said, "Any Muslim who
makes a supplication containing nothing which is sinful, or which involves
breaking ties of relationship, will be
given for it by Allah one of three things: He will give him swift answer, or
store it up for him in the next world, or turn away from him an equivalent
amount of evil." Those who heard it
said they would then make many supplications and he (saws) replied that Allah
was more ready to answer than they were to ask.
Abu Hurairah reported, "The Prophet
(saws) said, "Nothing is more dear to Allah than one's supplication to
Him.''
Narrated by Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah.
Salman reported that the Prophet (saws),
said, "Your Lord, the Blessed and the Exalted One, is Modest and Generous,
and He loathes to turn away His servant empty-handed when he raises his hands
to Him in supplication."
Narrated by Ahmad and Ibn Hibban.
Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (saws)
said, "Your supplication will be answered if you are not impatient, and if
you do not say, 'I supplicated but my supplication was not heard'."
Narrated by Malik.
When asking for wealth or anything of the world, one
should make sure they beseech their Lord to provide them with the ‘halaal’ and
bestow upon them the ‘tawfeeq’ and ability to spend of what He has provided
them in His Cause. One should also be
careful that one does not always only ask for wealth or things that are useful
in this world….but balance their supplications for the good of the world with
imploring their Lord to also give them the good of the Hereafter….that would be
closer to piety and righteousness in the Sight of Allah Subhanah.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah
Israa verses 18-21:
18 If any do wish for the transitory things (of this life) We readily
grant them--such things as We Will to such persons as We Will: in the end have
We provided Hell for them: they will burn therein disgraced and rejected.
19 Those who do wish for the (things of) the Hereafter and strive
therefore with all due striving and have Faith, they are the ones whose
striving is acceptable (to Allah).
20 Of the bounties of thy Lord We bestow freely on all these as well as
those: the bounties of thy Lord are not closed (to anyone).
21 See how We have bestowed more on some than on others; but verily the
Hereafter is more in rank and gradation and more in excellence.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chatper 2 Surah
Baqarah verses 200-202:
200 There are men who say: "Our Lord! Give
us (Thy bounties) in this world!" but they will have no portion in the
hereafter.
201 And there are men who say: "Our
Lord! Give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter and defend us from
the torment on the fire!"
202 To
these will be allotted what they have earned and Allah is quick in account.
Your Statement: I
have taken a solemn promise that I will donate 5% of whatever I personally
profit from the business project will go to charity.
The ‘neeyah’ or promise that you made with Allah that ‘if
so and so thing is done I will do so and so…’ is what is known as a ‘nadhar’
(vow) in Fiqh or Jurisprudence terminology.
The Messenger of Allah (saws) discouraged the believers from making such
‘nadhar’ or vows, for the truth is that the vow itself has absolutely no
bearing on what has already been Decreed and Determined by Allah Subhanah!
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.685 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Prophet (saws) said, "Allah says,
'The ‘nadhar’ (vow) does not bring about for the son of Adam anything I have
not decreed for him, but his ‘nadhar’ (vow) may coincide with what has been
decided for him, and by this way I cause a miser to spend of his wealth. So he
gives Me (spends in charity) for the fulfillment of what has been Decreed for
him what he would not give Me before but for his vow!"
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.683 Narrated by Said bin Al Harith
that he heard Ibn 'Umar saying, "Weren't
people forbidden to make ‘nadhar’ (vows)?" The Prophet (saws) said, 'A
‘nadhar’ (vow) neither hastens nor delays anything, but by the making of vows,
some of the wealth of a miser is taken out."
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.684 Narrated by Abdullah bin Umar
The Prophet discouraged the making of ‘nadhar’
(vows) and said, "It (a vow) does not prevent anything (that has to take
place), but (through the vow) the property of a miser is spent (taken out) with
it."
Some people have a habit that they are reluctant to do a
good deed or spend some of their wealth in the Cause of Allah, without putting
a condition with their Lord that only if He gives him such and such, only then
will he do such and such a good deed!
The truth is that these conditions do not help in expediting or bringing
about what their heart desires, for only that will happen what has been already
Decreed and Determined by Allah Subhanah!
A better way than making a ‘nadhar’ or vow, is to do
whatever good deeds one wills and beg and implore their Lord in all humility
and hope to bestow upon them whatever their hearts desires.
Having said that making a ‘nadhar’ or a vow is discouraged
in Islam and one should not make conditions with their Lord in their
supplications, Allah Subhanah in His Glorious Quran has appreciated and praised
those believers who fulfill their ‘nazars’ or vows that they have made with
their Lord!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 76 Surah
Dhahr verses 5-12:
5 As to the Righteous they shall drink of a
Cup (of Wine) mixed with Kafur
6 A Fountain where the Devotees of Allah do drink, making it flow in
unstinted abundance.
7 They perform (or fulfill their) ‘nazar’ (vows) and they fear a Day whose evil flies far and wide.
8 And they feed for the love of Allah, the
indigent, the orphan, and the captive
9 (saying): "We feed you for the sake of Allah alone: No reward
do we desire from you nor thanks.
10 We only fear a Day of distressful Wrath
from the side of our Lord."
11 But Allah will deliver them from the evil of that Day and will shed
over them a light of Beauty and a (Blissful) Joy.
12 And because they were patient and constant, He will reward them with
a Garden and (garments of) silk.
If one has already made a vow to fast, or spend in
charity, or offer ‘nawafil’ prayers, or go themselves or send someone for
pilgrimage, or do a good deed when their heart’s desire is fulfilled, then it
would be best for the person to now fulfill their vow they made unto their
Lord; it is expected that they will have their full reward with their Lord for
keeping their promises made unto Him.
But in the future, one should abstain from putting
conditions or making a ‘nadhar’ or vow with the Lord when one desires a
thing….but rather remain constant in doing good deeds and whenever one’s heart
desires anything, one should implore and beg their Lord in supplications with
absolute and total awe, humility, and hope….for the Lord responds to each and
every supplication made by His believing slaves.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
