فلسفة الدعاء بين التكليف و الابتلاء في خواطر الإمام ابن الجوزي

الملخص EN

This research handles the issue of invocation, its philosophy and wisdom, and it is an issue which acquires a special importance in this age in which trials and catastrophes take place successively; because of wars and pandemics, so people invoke and supplicate to God [Exalted be He] so much, such as the status of the human being always in the status of vulnerability and emergency in order to dispel their trials and affliction.

Due to the fact that the human being is hasty; s/he looks for the immediate response which he measures according to his/her time, interests and needs; "the one with an urgent need is reckless, s/he only wants to get it done"; and when he does not see a response, the inquiries start to move through his mind, and anxiety starts to snort his heart, and atheists and skeptic people find a chance to renew their inquiries addressing people with religion and faith, and sometimes mock them.

Ibn Al Jawzi (may God have mercy upon him) has participated through his long experience in life - especially that he wrote his book "Said Al Khater" [Thoughts Hunt] after he became 70 years old - in answering such inquiries through clarification of the meaning of invocation and its relation to commission and trials and the wisdom of human being's existence on earth, and the relation between invocation and the basic identity of the human being and their servitude to God [Exalted be He], and its relation to causality in this universe.

Moreover, he set out the wisdom of not finding an immediate response or the required response of the invocation.

Further, Ibn al Jawzi creatively set out the philosophy of Islam and its wisdom in this, and reiterated his answers in various forms and phrases, and expressed his personal experiences throughout his long journey of life making use of his wide scholarship and deep understanding of God's Book [Exalted be He], and Prophet's Sunnah (PBUH) and his biography, as well as the stories of prophets and experiences of ancient nations, especially that he authored an important book in history, entitled [Al Muntazam in History of Kings and Nations] (Almuntazam fi Tarikh Almolouk w Al Omam).

It is considered the first chronology which encompasses both events and biographies, which means that he invested his experience in history in setting out evidences and concluding preachments and lessons, and that was clarified in this research thanks to God [Exalted be He.] Moreover, in this research, I followed the inductive analytic approach in order to reach the requested results, and one of the most important results is to reach answers which relieves the Muslim mind concerning the troubles relating to invocation, which are renewing in various forms and lead to anxious and confusing effects in the subject of belief in God and His wisdom and mercy.

I also reiterated in this research on the necessity of lending attention to Islamic heritage and exploring it in our contemporary reality, and reading it through our needs and aspirations today.