Imam Ali’s Sayings on Supplications
Supplication for a beggar is one of the two charities [that one can give].
The most piercing arrow is the supplication of the oppressed.
The most incapable of all people is the one who is unable to supplicate.
he kindness of Allah does not annul His wisdom; it is for this reason that not all supplications are answered.
Verily Allah, the Glorified, has wraths and chastisements, so if [any of] it descends upon you, repel it with supplication; for indeed nothing can repel tribulation except supplication.
Supplication is the weapon of the close friends [of Allah].
If any one of you wishes that he should never ask allah, the Glorified, for anything but that He Grants it to him, then he should lose hope in people and should not have hope in anyone other than Allah, the Glorified.
When you have any need [that you wish for] from Allah, the Glorified, then start by sending salutations on the Prophet (s) and then ask Allah for your need, for Allah, the Most high is too generous to fulfil one of the two supplications that are made to Him and refuse the other.
Through supplication, tribulations are repelled.
The weapon of a believer is supplication.
Ask Allah for forgiveness, well-belig and good success [in carrying out His ordinance].
Make your supplication sincere, for this makes it more worthy of a response.
Not every supplication is answered.
One who is given the [opportunity of] supplication will not be deprived of the response.
Whoever calls upon [and supplicates to] Allah, He answers him.
The one who is afflicted by severe tribulation is no more in need of supplication than the one who is doing well but is not secure from tribulations.
What good weapon supplication is!
Do not reckon that your supplication is being answered [too] slowly while you have obstructed its path with [ your] sins.
Never get disheartened by a delayed answer to [your] supplication, for indeed that which is granted is commensurate with the intention, and sometims the answer might be delayed so that it may result in a greater reward for the seeker and a more bountiful grant for the recipient.
Whoever asks Allah, He grants to him.
There is nothing more beloved to Allah, the Glorified, that being beseeched.
Do not ask [from anyone] other than Allah, the Glorified, for indeed if He grants [your wishes to] you,
He honours you [at the same time and if He withholds from you, He does it for your own welfare [and benefit].
Allah, spare out lives and their lives, respore the ties between us and them, rescue them [and guide them] from their misguidance, until those who are ignorant of the truth may recognize it and those are persistent in sinning and disloyalty [and in their enmity towards us] may desist from it.
Whoever knocks of the door of Allah, it is opened for him.
The one who supplicates without action is like a bow without a bowstring.
