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What is Dua (Only Lecture) April 26, 2009 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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56 sec
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Dua's huge importance in Islam per hadith
“Islam mein dua ki bohot zyada importance hai”
3 min 58 sec
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Dua's importance, the hadith, and 'I am near'
“Islam mein dua ki bohot zyada importance hai”
59 sec
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Quran 2:186 — God says 'I am near'
“Quran mein hai chapter 2, verse 186”
1 min 31 sec
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Quran's 'I am near' and why it matters
“Is se badi baat dua ke liye kya ho sakti hai?”
2 min 45 sec
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Experiencing God's nearness is where real dua starts
“Khuda ki qurbat ka tajurba kya cheez hai?”
41 sec
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Praying via a shrine or saint is ridiculous
“Kisi buzurg se dua karwa lo — yeh ridiculous baat hai”
1 min 45 sec
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The biggest dua flows only in your mother tongue
“Sab se badi dua wo hai jo madri zabaan mein uble”
41 sec
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Popular ideas of the 'biggest dua' are bogus
“Sab se badi dua samajhte hain fulan hazrat se karwa li jaye”
2 min 21 sec
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Every prophet prayed in his own mother tongue
“Paighambar ki dua bhi madri zabaan mein hoti thi”
4 min 31 sec
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Full case: prophets prayed in their mother tongues, not Arabic
“Paighambar ki dua bhi madri zabaan mein hoti thi”
1 min 37 sec
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Why real dua needs a 'reference point'
“Dua ke liye ek reference point chahiye”
3 min 35 sec
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Musa's tree becomes his reference point for prayer
“Hazrat Musa Misr se Madyan jaana hua”
2 min 51 sec
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Asiya chooses God's house over Pharaoh's palace
“Hazrat Musa ne dawati kaam kiya apna Egypt mein”
2 min 43 sec
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Personal story: a flowering tree as God's sign
“Jab bhi main kisi ped ko dekhta hoon...”
2 min 44 sec
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God wants living prayer, not mechanical prayer
“Yeh kitaab mein chapi hui dua ko rat kar dua karna...”
5 min 16 sec
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Living vs mechanical prayer, and the unlimited human mind
“Yeh kitaab mein chapi hui dua ko rat kar dua karna...”
2 min 41 sec
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Nobody makes others' death their own reference point
“Insaan marta rehta hai, log marte rehte hain”
44 sec
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Blindness: nobody treats death as a reference point
“Khuda chahta hai log doosre ki maut ko reference point banayein”
2 min 51 sec
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Rampur boy's bicycle story — 'who else but you'
“Ek naujawan ka waqia hai, Rampur ka ek naujawan tha”
2 min 48 sec
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Officer gives his own blanket to a jailed robber
“Ek qissa maine parha, Lucknow mein ek sahab the”
4 min 20 sec
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The blanket story and the power of true modesty
“Ek qissa maine parha, Lucknow mein ek sahab the”
2 min 48 sec
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Hasan Nizami's modesty impresses the Nawab of Hyderabad
“Hasan Nizami jo the, bade achhe writer the”
2 min 28 sec
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Man credits a politician but never credits God
“Sanjay Gandhi ke zamane ka waqia hai”
5 min 20 sec
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Sanjay Gandhi story: crediting man over the Creator
“Sanjay Gandhi ke zamane ka waqia hai”
29 sec
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Hadith: prayers go unanswered amid noisy prayer trends
“Hadith mein aata hai: tum dua karoge, qabool nahi hongi”
50 sec
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Rock spring story — 'I too am a rock'
“Main bhi ek pathar hoon, mere pathar mein chashma jaari ho jaye”
40 sec
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Closing supplication for true, sincere prayer
“Main dua karta hoon Allah mujhe sacchi dua ki taufiq de”