Mohammad Hasan Rostami; Masumeh Taherian Ghadi
Abstract
Prayer is one of the spiritual causes in the world. But sometimes in answering it, obstacles are created and some are deprived of answering their prayer. The present article has examined the narrations related to non-answering prayers with a descriptive-comparative method. These narrations name a group ...
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Prayer is one of the spiritual causes in the world. But sometimes in answering it, obstacles are created and some are deprived of answering their prayer. The present article has examined the narrations related to non-answering prayers with a descriptive-comparative method. These narrations name a group of people whose prayers are not answered which are: Arif (governor), Ashar (tax collector), Darogheh owner of drums and tambourine, poet, one who curses his wife while he can divorce her, a person who curses his neighbor while he can change his house, a person who Loaned his money without taking a witness and his money was not returned, one who seeks sustenance from God without effort, one who prays in the severance of kinship and against his parents. The reasons for not answering Prayer are also mentioned in other narrations, which by matching those reasons with the narrations in question, the reason for the exclusion of these people is determined: Which includes the cruelty, laziness, and transgression of these people from the divine factors. And these are just a few examples of prayers that are not answered, and besides, other examples can be mentioned for this group.
