What Does Actional Dua Mean?

What does actional dua mean?

Allah gave specific reasons to all events that will occur in the universe. Everything both in this world and the universe we live in is shaped according to the cause-effect (law and rule) relations determined by Allah. A person who wishes to obtain the thing he desires needs to fulfill its causes too. For example, marriage of a person who wants to have a child or a student’s studying to be successful in an exam are deemed as actual duas.

A person completes the causes and laws that are taught to him by Allah as much as he can and then waits its effect from Allah so that his wish can be realized. The meaning of the verse of, “That man can have nothing but what he strives for.” (Najm, 53/39) draws attention to the relation between people’s working and the effects they will see and points out that this work means an actual dua. The expression of, “Add some tar medicine into your dua...” which is told to a person whose animal is sick and but who only makes dua for its recovery, is a good example of actual dua.

Just like it is wrong to only make dua for realization of something and do nothing actually for it, it is also wrong to take all the necessary precautions and do studies, that is to say, to make actual dua but not to make verbal dua afterwards by saying, “I completed this job.”

Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWA