Your worthless idols or the One Who fulfills your needs when...

Your worthless idols or the One Who fulfills your needs when you are left with nothing except depression?"[^9] And God will help him if He thinks it proper. They tell us to pray (use supplication: du'a ) abundantly, because when we knock on a door, there is hope that it will open;[^10] However, this work should be continuous, depending on the intention of the performer of the supplication.[^11] [^1]: . Qur’an 7:29. [^2]: . Usul al-Kafi, vol.2, p.16. [^3]: .

Shirk, or associating partners with God, is of the following types: Shirk in the essence of God, shirk in attributes, shirk in actions, shirk in worship. A believer should avoid all of these and should not appoint any partner for God. He should obey only the Unique God and should ask Him for help. [^4]: . Abduh's commentary on Nahj al-Balaghah, vol.3, p.45. [^5]: . Ibn Maytham's Sharh Nahj al-Balaghah, vol.5, p.11. [^6]: . Sahifah al-Sajjadiyah, supplication 33. [^7]: . Wasa'il, vol.5, p.207.

[^8]: . For further information concerning Istikhara and its kinds refer to the following: Bihar, vol.19, pp.222-288; Wasa'il, vol.5, pp.204-221, vol.4, p.875; Sahifah al-Sajjadiyah, (tr.) Fayz al-Islam, and (tr.) Sayyid ‘Ali Khan; and Allamah Kalbasi's al-Istikhara. [^9]: . For this, see Imam Khumayni's Kashf al-Asrar, pp.89-97. [^10]: . Bihar, vol.93, p.298. [^11]: .

In traditions, it is said the supplication could be recited once or one hundred times depending on the importance of the topic at hand. Previous…