In Islam, duʿāʾ is a prayer of invocation, supplication or request, asking help or assistance from God.
An Indonesian Muslim man doing dua
A young Muslim supplicating after salah at the Great Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Portrait of the Mughal Emperor Akbar invocation of a Dua prayer
The first Mughal Emperor Babur and his Mughal Army perform a Dua prayer while saluting their standards.
In Islam, God is seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe, who lives eternally and will eventually resurrect all humans. God is conceived as a perfect, singular, immortal, omnipotent, and omniscient god, completely infinite in all of his attributes. Islam further emphasizes that God is most merciful. The Islamic concept of God is variously described as monotheistic, panentheistic, and monistic.
A rock carved with the text of "al-'Aqida al-Murshida" (the Guiding Creed) by Ibn Tumart (d. 524/1130) — the student of al-Ghazali (d. 505/ 1111) and the founder of the Almohad dynasty — praised and approved by Fakhr al-Din Ibn 'Asakir (d. 620/1223), located at al-Salah Islamic secondary school in Baalbek, Lebanon.