format_quote Originally Posted by greenhill;n2232202
While it is best that we du'a and ask for blessings for our endeavors, as you said, it does not guarantee success. For me I view it two ways (perhaps even 3 ways?)
1) As you said, perhaps there was a mistake that made me fail or
2) Allah set has decided that what was asked is not good for you and hence did not grant the wish.
3) Perhaps Allah has replaced your wish for something else which we have not considered... ?
Peace brother Ardianto.
There was something that I always did on the start line when I was active in motorcycle racing, made dua. However, I noticed, when I made dua, all racers made dua too!. It raised a question in my mind "If everyone wants to win this race while the winner is only one, then how can everyone's dua will be answered?". Then I made a conclusion, if Allah did not answer my dua, probably because there was someone else who also made same dua but did better effort than me.
This is just one of many lessons about dua which I have learned from my life journey.
Since I was kid I have been taught that if we want something we should make dua. I also taught that if we want something we cannot just make dua, but we also should do
ikhtiar (effort). And the next lesson was, human obligated to do effort, but Allah determine.
I have learned many things in my life, and the most important thing about dua that I have learned is, I cannot expect that Allah will give what I want, but I must believe that Allah will give what the best for me.
Just like when I wanted to achieve something but I did not try to do my best, then the best thing that I got was failure. Yes, failure is the best thing that Allah give to me because this failure then make me realize that if I want to achieve something I should do an effort as best as I can do.
So, if we don't get what we expect, we should not thinking that Allah does not love us, but we must realize this is because Allah want to give the best for us.
:)