Supplication for Allah’s Generosity and Blessings: Quranic Supllications 18

During Ramadan 2023, Sheikh Faraz Rabbani gave a series of daily video talks on supplications in the Quran. This series of articles are drawn from those talks and the related eBook. This article is about asking for Allah’s generosity and blessings. The video series can be viewed here.

One of the supplications of the Quran is not in itself a supplication. And that is to recite the Quran as an act of supplication.

Our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, relates from our Lord Mighty and Majestic in words inspired to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that:

“Whoever is busied by reciting My Book from asking Me, I grant them the best of what I grant those who ask. For truly, the superiority of My Book, of My speech over all of other speech, is like My superiority over My creation.”

So when you recite the Quran this is one of the best ways of asking. This is very important because sometimes we don’t know what to ask for. Sometimes we just don’t even know what’s good for us. Every choice seems formidable.

And that’s where one of the best ways of putting our hearts at rest, of beseeching Divine favor, is to open the Book of Allah and to recite. To find comfort both in the recitation and in the meanings and guidance and teachings of that recitation. Know that “Whoever is busied by reciting My book, I shall grant them the best of what I give those who ask Me.”

May Allah Most High realize that for us and enable us to operationalize it. That in times of difficulty open the Book of Allah and you will open goodness, and light, and certitude, and clarity, and comfort in your life.

Praise be to Allah, Lord of all the worlds.