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Sixteen situations rather than sixteen categories. Pick the one you are in.

• When you have done wrong Turning back after a mistake, without excuses and without despair. 17 duʿāʾ
• When you must decide A choice you cannot see the end of, and the request to be shown rather than told. 12 duʿāʾ
• When you are in need Hunger, debt, work, shelter — asking for what sustains you without naming a figure. 9 duʿāʾ
• For your parents and your family Praying for the people you are bound to — parents, spouse, descendants, household. 14 duʿāʾ
• When you long for a child Childlessness, and prayers for offspring — including those made long past the age of expecting. 7 duʿāʾ
• When you want to give thanks After the thing you asked for arrived — the prayer that is easiest to forget. 7 duʿāʾ
• When you want to understand Study, memorisation, teaching, and the honest admission of not knowing. 5 duʿāʾ
• When you need protecting Seeking refuge — from harm, from people, from what you cannot see, and from yourself. 17 duʿāʾ
• When the task is beyond you Being sent to do something you do not feel equal to, and asking for capacity rather than escape. 9 duʿāʾ
• When you are afraid Facing something or someone you have reason to fear — before it happens, not after. 9 duʿāʾ
• When there seems no way out Trapped, cornered, out of options — the duʿāʾ said from inside the difficulty rather than after it. 11 duʿāʾ
• When you are grieving Loss, separation, and sorrow that does not lift on schedule. 7 duʿāʾ
• When you or someone you love is ill Sickness, pain, and long affliction borne without complaint against the One who sent it. 2 duʿāʾ
• When you are wronged Oppression, slander, and power used against you — taking it to Allah instead of into your own hands. 10 duʿāʾ
• When you must hold firm Standing on something at cost — asking to be poured patience rather than to be spared the test. 11 duʿāʾ
• When you think of the end Death, the reckoning, and asking to be gathered with the righteous. 9 duʿāʾ