Allah hears the Servant’s Supplication

And when My servants ask you (O Muhammad concerning Me, then answer them), I am indeed near (to them by My knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me (without any mediator or intercessor). So let them obey Me and believe in Me, so that they may be led aright. (2:186)

Tafsir (Ibn Kathir)

Allah hears the Servant’s Supplication

Imam Ahmad reported that Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari said, “We were in the company of Allah’s Messenger during a battle. Whenever we climbed a high place, went up a hill or went down a valley, we used to say, `Allah is the Most Great,’ raising our voices. The Prophet came by us and said: O people! Be merciful to yourselves (i.e., don’t raise your voices), for you are not calling a deaf or an absent one, but One Who is All-Hearer, All-Seer. The One Whom you call is closer to one of you than the neck of his animal. O `Abdullah bin Qais should I teach you a statement that is a treasure of Paradise: `La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah (there is no power or strength except from Allah).’ (Abu Dawud)

Imam Ahmad recorded that Anas said that the Prophet said: “Allah the Exalted said, `I am as My servant thinks of Me, and I am with him whenever he invokes Me.’

Allah accepts the Invocation

Imam Ahmad also recorded Abu Sa`id saying that the Prophet said: No Muslim supplicates to Allah with a Du`a that does not involve sin or cutting the relations of the womb, but Allah will grant him one of the three things.

• He will either hasten the response to his supplication,
• save it for him until the Hereafter,
• or would turn an equivalent amount of evil away from him.” They said, “What if we were to recite more (Du`a).” He said, (There is more with Allah.)

Imam Malik recorded that Abu Hurayrah narrated that Allah’s Messenger said:  One’s supplication will be accepted as long as he does become get hasty and say, I have supplicated but it has not been accepted from me.”

Three Persons Whose Supplication will not be rejected

Abu Hurayrah narrated that Allah’s Messenger said: Three persons will not have their supplication rejected:

1. the just ruler,
2.  the fasting person until breaking the fast, and
3.  the supplication of the oppressed person, for Allah raises it above the clouds on the Day of Resurrection, and the doors of heaven will be opened for it, and Allah says, `By My grace! I will certainly grant it for you, even if after a while.’ (Tirmidhi)