My daughter was memorizing Surah Al-Ahqaf, and one day I was surprised when she asked me: "My father how old are you?"
I said to her smiling: "Sure, there is something behind your question."
She said: "My father tell me how old are you?"
I said: "44 years old my daughter."
She said: "That means you have reached 40 years four years ago, do you say the Du'aa of those after forty say?"
I said: "Is there a special Du'aa at the age of forty years?"
She said while acting like a teacher: "In Surah Al-Ahqaf, Allah Ta'ala Says."
وَوَصَّيْنَا الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ إِحْسَانًا ۖ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ كُرْهًا وَوَضَعَتْهُ كُرْهًا ۖ وَحَمْلُهُ وَفِصَالُهُ ثَلَاثُونَ شَهْرًا ۚ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُ وَبَلَغَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً قَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَيَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِي فِي ذُرِّيَّتِي ۖ إِنِّي تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ وَإِنِّي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ (15) أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ نَتَقَبَّلُ عَنْهُمْ أَحْسَنَ مَا عَمِلُوا وَنَتَجَاوَزُ عَن سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ فِي أَصْحَابِ الْجَنَّةِ ۖ وَعْدَ الصِّدْقِ الَّذِي كَانُوا يُوعَدُونَ (16)
{And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed I am of the Muslims"} (15) {Those are the ones from whom We will accept the best of what they did and overlook their misdeeds, [their being] among the companions of Paradise. [That is] the promise of truth which they had been promised} (16)
My teacher told me that her father says this Du'aa for more than twenty years, he is now over sixty.
My teacher told us whoever love his parents should let them know about this beautiful Du'aa. I am telling you father because I love you.
I thanked my daughter so much for her wonderful words and precious advice.
I kissed her head and thanked Allah for giving me a daughter who can make me learn.
My daughter was very happy, she hurried and brought a paper and a pencil and wrote the Du'aa.
She said: "Put this paper in your wallet, so as you can say the Du'aa every day whenever you pull your money out of your wallet."
Subhana Allah, Days later my daughter asked me about the Du'aa. I told her: "I have memorized it."
🌺🍃Have a pleasant day
Source of my dua and about my blog is Quranil Karreem.