What is the meaning of "wickedness of inner self and abandonment of conviction in the answer" which is mentioned as a reason for prayers not being answered?
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Wickedness of the inner self means that its owner conceals polytheism (), hypocrisy (riya'), dissimulation (nifaq), arrogance (kibr), self-admiration (`ujb), and other diseases of the heart.
Belief in the answer means the servant's certainty in God's promise and having a good opinion of Him, based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "Supplicate to Allah while you are certain of being answered," and Allah's (the Most High) saying in the Qudsi : "I am as My servant thinks of Me. If he thinks good of Me, he will have it; and if he thinks evil of Me, he will have it."
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