3.26. SUPPLICATION: ITS SIGNIFICANCE

God says

[O Muhammad] when My servants ask you about Me, I am near; I respond to the call of one who calls, whenever he calls unto Me: let them, then, respond unto Me, and believe in Me, so that they might follow the right way.” -- Q.2:186

Call upon your Sustainer humbly, and in the secrecy of your hearts. Verily, He loves not those who transgress the bounds of what is right: hence, do not spread corruption on earth after it has been so well ordered. And call unto Him with fear and longing: verily, God’s grace is ever near unto the doers of good! -- Q.7:55,56

….And call unto Him with fear and longing: verily, God’s grace is ever near unto the doers of good! -- Q.7:56


Prophet said

Nu’man b-Basheer reported that the Apostle of God said, “Invocation* is worship”. Then he continued: “Your Lord said: call Me (and) I will respond to you” —H: Ahmed, Tirmizi, Abu Daud, Nisai, Ibn Majah.
* to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.

“Supplication is the heart of worship” -- H: Tirmizi. N: Anas

“God says : I am with My servant according to his expectation of Me, and when he remembers Me, I am with him with My mercy, if he remembers Me in mind I remember him likewise, and if he remembers Me in public, I remember him in a better assembly” – Hadith Qudsi: Bukhari and Muslim. N: Abu Huraira.