What Are You Really Asking For in Your Duas?

720 days of genocide in Gaza. 895 days in Sudan. And across 1,400 years, billions of Muslims raising their hands in dua. This session focuses pn a single verse of Surah Al Baqarah and asks the question we tend to avoid. When we pray, are we asking like the comfortable, or like the oppressed? It is a reflection on Gaza, on the martyred journalist Anas al Sharif, on a mother whose two day old baby may not survive the week, and on what sincere dua actually costs. In this video: • The two kinds of people in Surah Al Baqarah, and which dua is really ours • What 720 days, 895 days, and 500,000 days since the hijrah reveal about our prayers • The final words of journalist Anas al Sharif, may Allah have mercy on him • A young man in Gaza answering the hardest question about faith with the Quran • Why the Prophet ﷺ warned us never to grow frustrated with supplication • How to move from the prayer of the privileged to the prayer of the oppressed What are you really asking for in your duas? Chapters 0:00 Opening and introduction 1:07 Two kinds of people in Surah Al Baqarah 3:16 Let's talk numbers: 720 days in Gaza 6:30 Billions of Muslims, and all their duas 11:18 Anas al Sharif and his final words 13:34 Two mothers, two very different prayers 16:14 A young man in Gaza answers with the Quran 18:53 Not the prayer of luxury jets and towers 20:58 Supplicate in ease to be answered in hardship 23:34 Renewing our trust in the power of dua