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Ad‘iyah
Du'a'A servant of Allah invokes his Creator to express(singular of ‘ad‘iyah’) means a call or prayer.
either his needs or his servitude to Him. This call initself is a form of worship.
Allah is a living and permanent existence. He hearsand sees and has the power to do as He desires and
set the course of events in consonance with His will.
It is this firm conviction which gives rise to the urgewithin man to pray to Allah. When man receives inspi-
ration from Allah, it comes to him naturally to call uponAllah for all his needs and to ask for Allah's blessings in
this world as well as in the Hereafter. Allah is trulyman's sustainer.
There is no time set for scribed method nor a separate language. Man, at anydu'a', neither is there any pre-
moment, in any form, and in any language can pray toAllah. If the prayer has come from deep inside one's
heart, it will certainly reach Allah. Allah will hear the callwithout delay and will answer the suppliant's prayers.
Du'a'Allah has no ending. It continues eternally. means seeking from Allah and this seeking fromDu'a'is an
expression of unceasing feelings welling up inside thebeliever's heart for his Lord. No moment of a believer's
life can be bereft of it.
In the "Say: My Lord would not care for you were it not forQur’an, the importance of du'a' is stated thus,
your prayer.teristics that distinguish a believer from an unbeliever" Du'a'is one of the most important charac-
and a significant indicator of one's faith in Allah.
Many people may think that there is no divine controlover the universe and that everything is interacting
independently. However, what they do not know is thatevery creature in the heavens and on the earth has
already submitted to Allah. There is no creature whosedestiny is not determined by Allah and who is not obe-
dient to Him. The unbelievers do not understand thissubstantial fact. The believers, on the other hand, are
aware that the only way to obtain the things they wantis to ask them from the One Who controls them. They
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