A Test of Faith

Assalamu alaikum, everyone. Lately, I've been struggling so much with my belief in the power of dua. For years, my main supplication was always for my parents' health. I never really asked Allah for money or success or little things to go smoothly-just wanted my family to be protected from sickness. But then my mom was diagnosed with ALS, an illness that has no cure. And it's made it really hard to feel like my duas actually change anything. I'm asking honestly: has anyone here lived through something they’d truly call an answered dua-or even a miracle? I’m not talking about small stuff like worrying over a test and then passing after praying. I mean real hopelessness: a severe sickness, a situation that looked impossible, or hitting rock bottom-and somehow something happened that no one saw coming. Have you or someone close to you ever had an experience like that? Something that still makes you think, 'I can't just brush this off as coincidence.'

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brother17h

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Don't measure answer by cure alone. Sometimes the answer is the strength your mother shows, the love your family gathers, the sins forgiven through suffering. My uncle passed from ALS but his last weeks were full of such clarity and iman, his face literally glowed.

brother14h

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My father had a massive brain haemorrhage, neurosurgeon told us to prepare for the worst. I remember weeping in tahajjud asking for any sign. Next morning he opened his eyes and squeezed my hand. Recovery took months but he’s walking and talking now, alhamdulillah.

brother16h

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Brother, I nearly lost my daughter during birth - complications that statistically end badly. That night I felt utterly crushed but I just kept making sajdah and repeating Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyum. She survived with zero long-term issues. Never doubt that dua can rewrite what’s written.

brother14h

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SubhanAllah, this hit hard. My cousin was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and doctors gave him months. Everyone made dua nonstop, and after a year he was completely free of it. The doctors had no explanation. I still get goosebumps remembering.

brother15h

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Honestly sister - yes. Years ago I was jobless, homeless basically, and my mother was terminally ill. I kept praying for a door to open. One day out of nowhere a stranger offered me a fully funded scholarship abroad plus a care arrangement for my mom till she passed peacefully. I could never call that luck.