The purpose of life is to worship Allah (سبحانه وتعالى), and dua is the crux of worship.
Dua: The Weapon of the Believer Video
Dua: Goes hand-in-hand with tawakkul (trust and hope in Allah (سبحانه وتعالى))
Dua is the essence of worship: calling to The One, the Only One who can actually help you and Who actually deserves to be called upon. The One who is As-Samad, The Satisfier of every need; upon Whom everything depends but He depends on no one and nothing. Dua is calling upon the Creator, the Sustainer, the Supreme Answerer. [Calling out to other than Allah is the essence of shirk]
Translation: And your Lord says: Pray unto me: and I will hear your prayer. [Suratal-Ghafir, verse 60]
Dua is a very personal form of worship; we call directly The One, our Creator, our Sustainer, Al-Mujeeb: the Answerer. And when we call upon Him privately, and sincerely, and full of humility, it becomes a sincere form of worship.
Translation: Call upon your Lord humbly and in secret! [Suratal Araf, verse 55]
Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) is indeed near. He hears our call even when we pray silently. He sees every tear that crawls down our cheeks, and hears every whisper that emerges from our lips as we call to Him (سبحانه وتعالى) for mercy and help. It is of the etiquettes of dua to pray silently, for Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) is Al-Sami, the All-Hearer and He is near.
Translation: When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them); I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calls on Me. [Suratul Baqarah, verse 186]
The dua of a believer is accepted!! SubhanAllah, look at Allah’s (سبحانه وتعالى) mercy! He (سبحانه وتعالى) provided us with a way out of everything, with a solution to all wants and needs, DUA! A direct link to the source of all solutions. Truly, all praise is due to Allah (سبحانه وتعالى).
When we make dua we affirm the Greatness of Allah (سبحانه وتعالى). We affirm our status of being Allah’s (سبحانه وتعالى) slaves and being dependent on Him (سبحانه وتعالى) for everything.
Dua: The Weapon of the Believer Video
May Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) grant us the tawfeeq to turn to Him (سبحانه وتعالى) in times of ease and in times of hardship in gratitude, ameen!
Allaahumma Aa-meen. In reading your post I started thinking about the usual approach that we (as human beings) take in response to tests, trials, tribulations, etc. Many (if not most) people have this inherent desire to confide in another and to have someone tell them that everything will be okay. SubhanAllah! Allah, in his perfect wisdom, has given us the privilege of all of these things. When we want to confide in another, He is ALWAYS listening, and when we need to trust in something greater than we can see, He is the one from whom help is to be sought and in whom we should (and wholeheartedly can) put our trust. And, as you stated, even greater than all of this, He is the only one who can really do anything about it. SubhanAllah–Indeed our Creator is All Wise and Most Merciful, May He not leave us in charge of our own affairs, even for the blink of an eye.
Ameen. I also wanted to share a short gem from the Qur’an concerning duaa, it relates perfectly with this post.
In Surah al-Baqarah ayah 129, Ibrahim alayhi sallam made the duaa (translation): “Our Lord, and send among them a messenger from themselves who will recite to them Your verses and teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them. Indeed, You are the Exalted in Might, the Wise.”
Ibrahim alayhi sallam made this duaa when he nd Ismail alayhi sallam were placing the foundation for the ka’ba. Ask yorself, when was this duaa answered? approx. 2,500 years later…yes, thats right, more than TWO THOUSAND years later–Ibrahim alayhi sallam wasn’t even alive when this duaa was accepted! What does this teach us? We have to be patient with our duaas! We expect a response by the time we finish saying Ameen and put our hands down, but look at this duaa–not only did Allah ta’ala respond to it, He brought from the children of Ismail the best person to walk upon this earth, sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam. Don’t loose hope in your duaas and at the same time ask Allah to give you from His great bounty. wa lillahil hamd.
Awesome. Jazak Allah khair.
Some of my personal favorite duas:
The Four Fatal Fallacies
The Shopping Dua
The Dua for Sadness/Depression
The Dua of Abu Bakr [RA]
The Greatest Dua for Forgiveness
The Dua of Ibrahim [AS]
http://trueword.wordpress.com/category/dua/
The Noble Prophet (SAW) told us that the best dua to make is the dua of Prophet Yunus (AS) when he was inside the whale:
La ilaha ila anta subhanaka inni kuntu min adh-dhalimeen
Assalamu alaikum everyone
I’m at a crossroads.. I have a big decision to make. I am scared. I’ve made Istikhara with no clear direction which, if I am honest with myself, I attribute to the fear factor (fear of being killed).. It’s a long story.
Please advise the best dua to make when you just don’t know and you feel responsible for so many people, you’re afraid, you don’t want to hurt anyone – so many lives involved. (no, Im not having an affair and contemplating leaving my husband, Im not married ) I’m stuck in a catch 22. I don’t trust my own judgement even…
The last 5 years have been challenging but Alhamdulilah, I survived .. I do believe it’s been dua and thikr that’s kept me physically alive as well as emotionally pretty stable still – (i’d like to think that I am:)
I’ll wait to hear from you Insha-Allah.
Bismillah
Wa’alaikum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahu,
I hope and pray this reaches you in good health and high eman. Before providing some naseeha it is important to let yourself and the audience know that this indeed is only the advice of lay person, and whatever is written is only a means to provide some words that may, bi idnillah, provide some benefit. Truly, all power and might belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and to Him we shall return and it is to Him we turn to for aid and guidance.
Re: Istikhara
In acquiring the guidance of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala it is absolutely crucial we seek shura (consult) those we deem to be righteous, deem to be the knowleageable of our community, and those amongst the believers we trust.
One who seeks guidance from his Creator AND consults his fellow believers and then remains firm in his resolve does not regret for Allaah has said: ‘…and consult them in the affair. Then when you have taken a decision, put your trust in Allaah…”
Re: Du’a
Refer to du’a for distress here: http://www.makedua.com/display_dua.php?sectionid=35
Refer to du’a for difficult situations here:http://www.makedua.com/display_dua.php?sectionid=40
May Allah make your situation easy and I implore all those that read this to make du’a for the sister as well.
Assalamu alaikum brother
Jazakallah khair.
Thank you for taking the time to respond – and so promptly too.
I am opening the links to the suggested dua and I will heed your advice Insha-Allah. May Allah swt reward you.
Given that today is Friday, I’d like to share something which you probably already know of. I once read a hadith which suggests that there is an “hour” on Friday where our supplications will be answered. Various interpretations places this hour within the timeframe of the Jumu`ah prayer – “It is between the time the Imam sits down until the time the prayer is over.” [Sahîh Muslim (853)]
Another suggests “Seek the anticipated hour of Friday after `Asr until sunset” [Sunan al-Tirmidhî (489)] Al-Tirmidhî comments:
I make dua for all of the muslimeen that we may find this hour and that Allah may grant us all that is best as only He knows – for matters of Deen, Duniya and Akhira Insha-Allah.
Jumuah Mubarak.
Thank you once again. Please keep me in dua.
Zarina
I have been falsely accused, this affecting me and my family
Allah know I did nothing wrong
Please pray dua for me Ameen
MK