“Allah loves to be asked, to be hoped in and desired at times of need, to be supplicated frequently and resolutely. He is able to grant all of mankind all their requests without His dominion decreasing in the slightest.
Created beings on the other are the exact opposite, they dislike being asked due to their own inability, need and poverty. This is why Wahb bin Munabbih said to one who would frequent the door of the ruler, “Woe to you! You run to the one who would shut his door in your face, display his poverty to you and conceal his riches and you leave One who opens His door to you in the middle of the night and the middle of the day, who displays His richness and proclaims, “invoke Me and I will respond”. Tawus said to Ata, ‘Beware of asking your needs to be met by one who would close his door in your face, instead it is upon you to go to the One whose is open until the Day of Judgment, One who has ordered you to ask Him and promised you that He would respond”.
(Taken from “The Spiritual Cure” – A Summary of Numerous Classical Commentaries of the Quran – prepared and translated by Abu Rumaysah)
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