Supplication Wards Off Preordainment

Question :

Can Supplication ward off what is preordained?

Answer:

Allâh Almighty has legislated supplication, and He has ordered it, saying:
"And your Lord said, "Invoke Me, I will respond to your (invocation)."

He also said:
"And when My servants ask you concerning Me, then (answer them), I am indeed near (to them by My Knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me"

So when a worshipper does what is legislated to achieve his goal, in this case to supplicate, then he is doing something that is foreordained. Therefore, if Allah Almighty wills, one preor- dained matter (for him to supplicate) could repel another preordained matter (what he is praying not to happen, for example).

It is confirmed in an authentic Hadith that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
"A servant is precluded from sustenance for a sin that he committed. Nothing wards off preordainment except for supplica- tion, and nothing increases the life-span of somebody except for Birr (kind or charitable acts)."

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