asking Allah for something? From what position are we asking? Is asking Allah
the same as asking your parents or asking somebody else? If it’s not the same,
how is it different? What are we supposed to expect when we make
duʿā’
to
Allah (
ʿazza wa-jall
)?
There seems to be, among the average Muslim, a lot of confusion about this
very simple and very fundamental thing. As a matter of fact the centre of our
religion is
duʿā’
. The Fatihah which is the opening of the Qur’an and is the heart
of the Qur’an is itself a
duʿā’
. Every prophet (
ʿalayhim al-salām
) that Allah talks
about in the Qur’an makes
duʿā’
. Every one of them; it’s their lasting legacy. We
may not know every detail:
Nūḥ
(
ʿalayhi al-salām
) lived 950 years among his
people. We don’t know all the details of those 950 years, but we do know the
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