![]() It is not only a prayer of invocation, but also encompasses prayers of supplication, thanksgiving, blessing, submission, obedience, petition, and remembrance. ![]() Give thanks to Me, and reject not Me.” (Surah Baqarah, 2:152)įor Ismaili Muslims, under the authority of the Imam of the time, we have the “ Du’a”. “Therefore, remember Me, I will remember you. “O Mankind! Worship your Guardian-Lord, Who created you and those who came before you, that you may learn righteousness.” (Surah Baqarah, 2:21) “And keep up prayers at the two ends of the day and in the first hours of the night surely good deed take away evil deed this is a word for remembrance to those who remember (their Lord).” (Surah Hud, 11:114) Thus Du’a can be informal personal prayers or they can be more formal and communal. ![]() It can be a prayer of obedience, submission, and piety it can be a blessing or salutation it can be a supplicatory prayer as in a prayer for rain or prayer for safety during the time of uncertainty or prayer for good health when in sickness, etc. ![]() Du’a, which in Arabic is to ‘call out’ or to ‘summon’. ![]()
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