The Story of Zakariya (‘Alayhissalam) & Yahya (‘Alayhissalam)
For the Duas You've Almost Given Up On
Against All Odds
An IlmNight with Dr. Omar Suleiman.
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"My Lord, my bones have grown feeble, and my head is aflame with white hair — but I have never been unblessed in my dua to You, my Lord."
There's a Dua You've Almost Stopped Making
Because you didn’t see it happening anymore… you adjusted your expectations…
This is one of the least-talked-about struggles in Muslim life.
Because we know we’re supposed to have certainty.
We know the ayat about Allah answering the one who calls.
But knowledge and feeling aren’t always the same thing.
Allah does not stop answering our duas…
So never get tired of asking Him.
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Zakariya’s Situation Was Clinically Impossible.
He was old. His wife was barren. By every human measure, that chapter of his life was closed.
BUT… he STILL made the dua.
And the beauty of his dua is in how he asked. He named his own impossibility first… and still kept believing in Allah’s answer.
We all lower the ceiling at some point.
We make peace with what appears possible, calling it tawakkul.
This is what the night is about.
A close, careful look at what trust actually looks like when it’s been tested and what it takes to keep asking when asking feels like the hardest thing.
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In this IlmNight,
Dr. Omar Suleiman
will walk through:
- The inner landscape of dua… How to ask, what to remember while asking, and what to do in the silence between the asking and the answer
- What Zakariya’s (as) record of relationship with Allah teaches us about how trust is built, not assumed
- The spiritual attentiveness that allowed Zakariya (as) to recognize a sign that wasn’t addressed to him
- The inner landscape of dua… How to ask, what to remember while asking, and what to do in the silence between the asking and the answer
- What Zakariya’s (as) record of relationship with Allah teaches us about how trust is built, not assumed
- The spiritual attentiveness that allowed Zakariya (as) to recognize a sign that wasn’t addressed to him
Meet Your Instructor
Dr. Omar Suleiman
Dr. Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, and a respected scholar and professor of Islamic Studies.
Trusted by millions around the world, he’s known for his clear, compassionate, and deeply relatable approach to faith bridging classical knowledge with the real struggles of Muslims today.
Dr. Omar isn’t just an academic; he’s a teacher who understands what it feels like to search for purpose, to burn out, and to want to reconnect with Allah in a lasting way.
