Du'a

The most ordinary act of Muslim life.

Muslims make du'a dozens of times a day - before eating and after, before sleeping and on waking, in prayer and out of it, when grateful and when afraid, in moments of openness and in moments when no words come.

Du'a is a clear primer on the practice itself. Eighteen short chapters cover what du'a is and the prophetic structure that gives it shape; the language question and the times and places of acceptance; the names of Allah and how to use them; the hard cases - the unanswered du'a, du'a against people, du'a for the dead, istikharah, what to do when you cannot find words - and the daily and lifelong shape of the practice. It closes with forty supplications for memorisation, with sources and gradings.

Mainstream Sunni. Hadith citations checked. Plain where the religion is plain.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Thirteen of The New Muslim Companion - a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.