Perhaps the most practical part of the book is Ibn al-Qayyim’s analysis of why some prayers go unanswered. He uses the famous analogy of a : If a person makes du’a with a heedless, distracted heart (negligent of the etiquettes), the supplication is like an arrow shot from a slack bow—it lacks the power to reach its target.
: Ibn al-Qayyim identifies three pillars of a servant's happiness: gratitude during ease, patience during trials, and repentance after sin. ibn qayyim al-jawziyya on the invocation of god pdf