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Dear brothers and sisters, so often when we talk about the concept of

du'at and we talk about a du'at a prayer, I can't tell you how many times someone

walks up and says can you give me the du'at for this situation? We're often

looking for the perfect formula, the perfect du'at, the perfect supplication to

fit our situation and sometimes we look for the longer du'ats, the ones that have

such poetry to them because they're able to encapsulate what we are feeling in

such a poetic way and we know that it comes from our Prophet ﷺ so we

attach ourselves to it so we love these long poetic du'ats and I want to

write it down and make sure that you send it to me and make sure that you give

me this and make sure that you give me that and there are two things that are

missed in the process. One of them is the value of raw du'at, the value of du'at

in your own language, supplication in your own language where you express those

feelings where Allah does not need you to rhyme or to sound poetic or to sound

beautiful or even to speak Arabic when you make your du'at, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

loves to hear your voice and hear its sincerity and that is the most important

ingredients. However, no doubt there's blessings in the du'at from the

person of the Prophet ﷺ. The second part of that, the things that we say so

regularly that we lose value for those things and we don't realize that they are

in fact expressions of du'at so for example a salamu alaykum is a du'at, peace

beyond to you, wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, may the peace, mercy and blessings of

Allah be upon you, it's a du'at and so it doesn't really make sense when someone

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