الدَّعَواتُ غَيرُ المُستَجابَةِ Supplications that are Not Answered

75ـ رسولُ اللهِ‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): سألتُ اللّه‏َ أن لا يَستَجيبَ دعاءَ حبيبٍ على حبيبِهِ.

75– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘I asked Allah not to answer the supplication of an enamoured one against his beloved.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 93, p. 378, no. 21]
 

76ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أربعٌ لا يُستَجابُ لَهُم دعاءٌ: الرجلُ جالسٌ في بَيتِهِ يقولُ: يا ربِّ ارزُقْني ، فيقولُ لَهُ: ألَم آمُرْكَ بالطَّلَبِ ؟ ! ورجلٌ كانَت لَهُ امرأةٌ فَدَعا علَيها ، فيقولُ: ألَم أجعَلْ أمرَها بيدِكَ ؟! ورجلٌ كانَ لَهُ مالٌ فأفسَدَهُ فيقولُ: يا ربِّ ارزُقْني ، فيقولُ لَهُ: ألَم آمُرْكَ بالاقتِصادِ؟! ... ورجلٌ كانَ لَهُ مالٌ فأدانَهُ بغيرِ بَيِّنَةٍ فَيَقولُ: ألَم آمُرْكَ بِالشَّهادَةِ؟!

76– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘There are four kinds of people whose supplications do not get answered: the man who sits in his house saying, ‘O my Lord, grant me sustenance’, to whom He says, ‘Did I not command you to seek [for your sustenance]?’, then there is the man who has a wife and supplicates against her, to whom He replies, ‘Did I not make you responsible for her?’, and a man who has wealth and wastes it, who says, ‘O my Lord, grant me sustenance’, to whom He replies, ‘Did I not command you to be economical?’…and a man who has wealth and loans it to someone without keeping any proof [of loan], to whom He replies, ‘Did I not command you to take a witness?!’[al-Da`awat, p. 33. no. 75]