Rania Awaad – Level Up Your Duas By Freestyling Gods Divines Names Into Your Supplications

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The speaker describes a situation where a woman talks to a doctor about her father's struggles with alcoholism and drinking. The doctor advises her to not downplay her father's beliefs and suggests she should not overdo it. The conversation also touches on the difficulty of finding connections with Islam and the importance of finding connections with one's own values.
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I meet sisters, I'll say, how is your
connection with Allah, and so many times people
feel, the answer is they feel very distant.
They don't feel very connected necessarily.
They'll say, I pray, I fast, I give
my zakat or charity, you know, I do
this and I do this.
I eat halal and I wear my hijab,
you know, like kind of the basic blueprint
of what a Muslim does.
But in terms of a direct connection with
Allah, where you feel like you're very much
connected, where you're actually talking to Allah, you
know, I always say to people part of
really getting over that emotional block and talking
directly to Allah is being able to freestyle
your dua.
What freestyle means?
Just you saying it directly.
It's unscripted.
It's not written anywhere.
You're not reading it from anything.
You're literally talking to Allah directly.
Please, Dr. Hani, make dua for me.
I'm trying to raise my children Muslim and
to pray, but I don't have any support
from my husband.
He doesn't pray and he's not interested in
trying.
And on top of it all, it seemed
like every year was getting worse and worse.
He was kind of spiraling into difficult habits.
In this case, it was literally alcoholism.
And she said to me, how do you
convince children to pray and to keep up
that fard that Allah has asked us to
when there's literally not just someone not praying,
but openly sinning in front of us?
Hard.
It was very hard.
You could see the struggle, the struggle.
And I kept giving her advice and saying
the thing I would hear my teacher say
very often, never, ever, ever downplay the power
of dua.
Do everything you possibly can.
And we go through things.
One, two, three.
These are things you can do, but never
downplay the power of dua when you think
you've tried everything you can possibly try.
And she said, oh, I have to tell
you I need dua and I thought I'm
going to hear the same story that I've
been hearing for many years.
And she said, but this time it had
to do with her daughter.
And I said, and she said she got
in a terrible car wreck.
Oh, subhanAllah.
And she said, oh, no, no, no.
She's, she's okay now.
I said, okay, alhamdulillah.
But you have to understand that is a
good thing.
And I said, how could a car wreck
possibly be a good thing?
And then she said, when that happened, the
person who had hit her was a drunk
driver.
And for whatever reason, it snapped her husband
who'd been in this like alcoholic stupor for
so long, snapped him out of it.
And she can, when you know somebody who's
been drinking for a long time, you can't
just sort of cold turkey very easily.
You cannot.
SubhanAllah, it takes time.
But this man, cold turkey.
And then she points over there where the
masjid was.
And she goes, he's there.
And I was like, he's there?
This man who like refused to pray, who
refused to like everything.
And we would say counseling, refused counseling, imam,
talk to an imam, refused imam, wouldn't even
step foot in the masjid, was literally in
the muslimah.
Even when you feel like a person, you're
going to give up on them, don't, because
Allah doesn't give up on us.
Even if you've given up on yourself about
something, don't, because ar-rahim has not given
up on you.
Right?
And even if you feel like your sins
are mountains, there is nothing mountainous to Allah
azza wa jal.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Calling him by his names, helps remove these
blocks that we sometimes impose onto ourselves that
he azza wa jal hasn't imposed onto us.
He didn't put that.
We put it on ourselves.
SubhanAllah.
And so we say, and the hadith of
the Prophet ﷺ is beautiful.
Allah is conscientious and generous.
And he is shy to return the outstretched
hands of his servant empty and disappointed.
So keep on stretching out your hands, keep
on calling, keep on asking Allah azza wa
jal.
And as he wishes and when we he
wishes, it'll come to pass.
Inshallah ta'ala.