The Prayer for Rain (Istisqaa) between the Andalusi Drought and the Rain

(138-897AH/755-1491AD)

Abstract

Received: 2026 / 04 / 06
Revision: 2026 / 04 / 21
Accepted: 2026 / 05 / 10
Published: 2026 / 09 / 30

The prayer has a great importance not only in the religion of Islam, but also in all the religions of heaven, as the prayer is a means which makes the man close to his Creator while he is devout servile so as to have his wish from Allah the Almighty, and of this worship the prayer for rain (Istisqaa) when the rain decreases and the land becomes arid, asking Allah to make the rain falls as it revives the land and the facilitation is achieved after the difficulty, note that the prayer of Istisqaa in itself is considered as an axis and a line that truly indicates the Islamic religion's justice and peaceful coexistence with the converse heavenly legislations and the kitabi religions in term of the exit of  the kitabis and the ones who are non-Muslims to perform it with the Muslims according to certain norms and rules.

          Thus, the prayer of Istisqaa gained the interest and the attention of all the people of Andalusia starting from the ruling authority represented by the princes and caliphs and finishing with the scholars, scientists, jurisprudents and others of influence and status. Finally, the prayer of Istisqaa became a reflecting mirror between the civilizations of the East and the West  through the personality of the scholar:-

          Mohammed bin Issa bin Mohammed bin Baqaa Al-Ansari Al-Lardi
Al-Andalusi, (d. 522AH/1128AD), the day the people got out to the place of prayer to ask God for rain when he left as a pilgrim to Damascus, he said in a poem:

I ask Allah to forgive my guilt even if it was big

and I feel my thanks are little even if they were many .