My Favourite Dua in The Quran




Nouman Ali Khan show

Summary: Salam alaikum wr wb<br> <br> I wanna start by making a request in the spirit of the subject that we are dealing with.<br> <br> At the end of my speech some of you might feel obligated... even out of a sense of what you've been doing already to applaud.<br> <br> I don't think I'll benefit much from your applaud even though I appreciate the gesture but I think I'll appreciate more if you just make du'a for me &amp; my family.<br> <br> So that would be a favor that you would do for me and up for all of the noble scholars that are here that have presented... and if you've benefited from them then absolutely make du'a for them and also make du'a for their families.<br> <br> I have very little to add to what's already been said in regards to this awesome subject but I do want to divide my conversation with you into two parts.<br> <br> The first of them is something about my personal life something that has to do with du'a that I wanna share with you and it's not really as out of a spirit of boasting or you know exposing... but really I think it's something that many of you probably can relate to and maybe find even encouragement in and that I wanna share with you, my favorite du'a in the Qur'an.<br> <br> Insha'Allahu ta'ala... and those are the only two things that I wanna do with you guys today. I was about almost 20 yrs of age and I "absolutely" "head over heels" fell in love...<br> <br> I went into a masjid in Ramadan. And I heard a remarkable scholar explain the Qur'an I had not read the Qur'an except in translation before that day and I heard him speak about the Qur'an in the form of almost a conversation.<br> <br> And you know the Qur'an is Allah azzawajal speaking to us directly. And it felt like that for me for the first time. And he was doing this every night of Ramadan for about 4 hours every night to go through the entire Qur'an in this fashion.<br> <br> And I attended this entire series with him because I was hooked completely, I was mesmerized by this Book. I was completely 'overwhelmed' that I didn't have any clue..no idea..what this Book was, that was always there and I always thought I have read something from it or some translation or something.<br> <br> I have an idea what it says, I guess I know what it has to say. But when I heard what it "really" had to say for the first time. I felt that there's like this person in... there's this Book that I love so much and I have no relationship with it.<br> <br> And of course the barriers were many including the knowledge of it but of course even the language. I had no idea what the Arabic language was. Not a clue!<br> <br> The only thing that I could do at that time you know what it was? It's to make du'a :)<br> <br> So I just asked Allah something very simple. I didn't even know how to ask it in Arabic or anything. I didn't know any duas by heart.<br> <br> So I just asked Allah: "O Allah! I love Your Book". "I just love Your Book". And I'd love nothing more but to learn it and to teach it! Just make it easy for me to learn it. And make it easy for me to teach it. Because I love Your Book<br> <br> That's all I asked And I swear to you by Allah! I am a terrible student of anything, "terrible" I mean specially languages I am absolutely horrendous.<br> <br> I was not a good student in college. I used to hate studying. You know if anybody If I ever had sleep problems the easiest way for me to catch some sleep was to open up a text book 10 seconds later...<br> <br> I'll have 12-13 hours of solid sleep Because... nothing will knock me out like studying But this teacher who was presenting the Qur'an also happened to be teaching an Arabic class.<br> <br> And when I attended his class, Wallahi! it was like knots opening up. I couldn't stop studying. I couldn't put the books down. I couldn't stop thinking about it. I was doing like conjugations in my sleep.