Using this site
The homepage changes every day
Each category shows the duas meant for today. Some are tied to a weekday, some to a date in the Hijri calendar, so what you see on Friday is not what you see on Saturday. A category with nothing in it today is normal, not an error.
Prayer times follow your location
Sehri, sunrise, dhuhr and iftar are worked out for the coordinates your browser reports. Until you share them the site uses Dhaka, which is why the strip says Bangladesh time. Use “Update location” at the top of the page to change it.
The times are calculated, not announced
They come from the position of the sun, with a deliberate margin in both directions: sehri is rounded down and a minute taken off, iftar rounded up and a minute added, so the fast starts a little early and ends a little late. Your local mosque or moon-sighting committee may still announce a minute or two different - where they differ, follow them.
The Hijri date changes at maghrib, not midnight
After iftar the date shown is already the next Hijri day, which is how the Islamic calendar works. Because the homepage lists duas by Hijri date, the categories change then too - so a page that looked one way before sunset can look different after it. If your local sighting differs, the − and + buttons beside the date shift it by up to two days, and the site remembers.
Every dua has its own page that never disappears
A dua may be listed only on certain days, but its own page is always reachable. Bookmark or share the link and it will still work tomorrow.
Bangla and English
Use the language button in the header. It remembers your choice and keeps you on the same page - the address of a dua does not change with the language, so a link you share works for a reader in either one.
Arabic, transliteration and translation
Each line of a dua shows the Arabic, then a transliteration to help with pronunciation, then the translation. Lines shown in a tinted box are instructions - how many times to recite, for example - rather than part of the dua itself.
Where the texts come from
DuasBD began with reading duas on Duas.org: we wanted readers in Bangladesh to have a site like it too. Most of the Arabic texts and some of the English translations on this site are taken from Duas.org, and we are grateful to them.
Searching
Search looks inside the duas as well as at their titles, so a half-remembered phrase from the middle of one will find it - in Bangla, English or Arabic. The dropdown beside the box narrows it to duas, key figures or events when you already know which you want. A search has its own address, so you can bookmark or share the results.
What the site keeps
One cookie for your language, and a count of how often each page is opened. Nothing stored identifies you - this site cannot tell how many people visited, or which pages any one person read, because none of that was ever recorded.
Donating and volunteering
To make a donation or to volunteer with DuasBD, write to us by email.
Something looks wrong?
Mistakes in a translation, a date, or a transliteration matter. Please tell us.