A person must repent of the sins between him and Allah The Almighty, and free himself from the wrongdoings between him and people in order to gain forgiveness from Allah The Almighty in Ramadan. No doubt, those sins and misdeeds deny the acceptance of supplications by Allah The Almighty. At the same time, the wrongdoings between a person and other people return the supplication with failure. This is what the Messenger of Allah clarified in reference to the man who raises his hands towards the sky and sets out on long journeys, saying: "He is unkempt and covered with dust, raising his hands to heaven and saying, ‘O Lord! O Lord!’ while his food and drink are from unlawful sources, and he has been nourished with the unlawful; then, how could his supplication receive an answer?" [Muslim]

Here, the Messenger of Allah pointed out some impediments that hinder the response to supplication, i.e. one's food, drink and nourishment being from unlawful sources, in reference to all the other sins and misdeeds. In other words, if the unlawful is a reason why his supplication receives no answer, all other sins and misdeeds also hinder the supplication to reach his Lord The Almighty.

In order to have his supplication accepted, a believer should ask Him insistently, and exalt his Lord. The believer then should enter upon Allah The Almighty supplicating and asking Him persistently, repeating his invocation just as the Messenger of Allah used to repeat the supplication thrice.

• {Call upon your Lord in humility and privately; indeed, He does not like transgressors.} [Quran 7:55]
• {They used to hasten to good deeds and supplicate Us in hope and fear, and they were to Us humbly submissive.}[Quran 21:90]

The believers with attentive and humble hearts, tearful eyes and gentle souls, standing at the times when response to supplication is expected, raising the hands, facing the Qiblah (direction of prayer), and supplicating in the state of Tahaarah (ritual purity), praising Allah The Almighty and lauding Him, and invoking the blessing and peace of Allah upon the Messenger of Allah will have their supplications fulfilled, Allah willing.