Note: The table is populated with data obtained from the Quran.corpus.com., and `a represents the Arabic letter, ayn.
Out of 212 instances of da`aa and its derived forms, 107 instances of da`aa found in 95 verses of 26 surahs in the Quran are already reviewed, 53 instances of da`aa found in 50 verses of 21 surahs are detailed out below to better understand their meaning in different contexts, while an Arabic word may have different meanings in different contexts:
- Details of instances of da`aa in verb form I meaning to pray or call or invite
[32:16] Forsaking their sides from the beds; they call their Lord in fear and hope (yad’`uuna rabbahum khawfan wa-tama`an), and they spend from what we have provided them.
[33:5] You shall call them (adopted sons) by their fathers (id’`uuhum li’abaa-ihim), which is just at God. But if you do not know their fathers, then they are your brothers in the religion and your near kins. And there is no sin for you in which you have made a mistake about this, except what has intended of your hearts. And God has been Forgiving, Merciful.
[33:53] O you who have believed, you do not enter the prophet’s homes except that permission is given to you for a meal without awaiting its preparation. But when you have been invited (wa-laakin idhaa du`eetum), then you shall enter; then when you have eaten, then you shall leave, and not staying for a conversation. Indeed, that have been to hurt the prophet, and he shies from you, while God does not shy for the truth. And when you have asked them (prophet’s wives) something, then you shall ask them from behind a screen. That are purer for your hearts and their (prophet’s wives) hearts. And it has not been for you that you hurt a messenger of God. And it is not that you should marry his wives after him ever. Indeed, that have been a gross offense at God.
[34:22] Say, “Call upon those whom you have claimed other than God (id’`uu alladheena za`am’tum min duuni allahi).” They do not possess an atom weight in the heavens, nor in the earth, nor is there any partnership in both of them for them, nor is there any supporter for Him from them.
[35:6] Indeed, the Satan is an enemy to you, so you shall take him as enemy; he only invites his party that they can be among the dwellers of the Blazing Fire (innamaa yad’`uu hiz’bahu li’yakuunuu mina ashaabi al-sa`eeri).
[35:13] He causes to enter the night into the day, and causes to enter the day into the night. He has committed the sun and the moon each to run for an appointed term. That is God your Lord; to Him belongs the dominion. And those whom you call other than Him (wa-alladheena tad’`uuna min duunihi), they do not possess even a covering of a date seed.
[35:14] If you call them, they cannot hear your call (if tad’`uuhum laa-yas’ma`uu du`aa-akum). Even if they had heard you, they would not have responded to you. And on a day of the Resurrection, they will deny of your association. And none can inform you like a Cognizant.
[35:18] And a bearer of burden will not bear a burden of another. And if an overloaded (soul) calls to its load (wa-in tad’`u muth’qalatun ilaa him’lihaa), it will not be carried anything from it, even if he has been a near kin. You can only warn of those who fear their Lord in the unseen, and have established the salat prayer. And whoever has purified, then he only purifies for himself. And to God is the final return.
[35:40] Say, “Have you seen your partners those whom you call other than God (a-ra-aytum shurakaa-akumu alladheena tad’`uuna min duuni allahi); show Me what they have created in the earth or for them there is share in the heavens.” Do they own any partnership in the heavens? Or have we given them a scripture that they have a clear proof from it? Nay, it is not a promise of the wrongdoers of them to other, except a delusion.
[37:125] Do you call Baal (statue) and forsake the best Creator (a-tad’`uuna ba`lan wa-tadharuuna ahsan al-khaaliqeena)?
[38:51] They (the righteous) will be relaxing therein (Paradise), they can call therein many of fruit and drink (yad’`uuna feehaa bi-faakihatin katheeran wa-sharaabin).
[39:8] And when an adversity had touched the human, he has called his Lord being turned to Him (da`aa rabbahu muneeban ilayhi); then when He has blessed him a favor from Himself, he has forgot what he had done to call to Him before and has set up rivals to God to lead astray from His path. Say, “Enjoy with your disbelief for a while; indeed, you are with companions of the Fire.”
[39:38] And that if you (prophet) had asked them who created the heavens and the earth? That they will surely say, “God.” Say, “Have you then seen whom you call other than God (a-fa-ra-aytum maa tad’`uuna min duuni allahi)? If God had intended for me of harm, are they relievers of His harm, or if He had intended for me of mercy, are they withholders of His mercy?” Say, “God is sufficient for me; upon Him put trust those who trust.
[39:49] So when an adversity had touched the human, he has called us (da`aanaa), then when we have blessed him a favor from us, he said: “I have only been given it for intelligence!” Yes, it is a test but most of them do not know.
[40:10] Indeed, those who had disbelieved will be announced to them, “Surely, God’s hatred was greater than your hatred of yourselves when you were called to the faith (idh tud’`awna ilaa al-eemaani), then you disbelieved.”
[40:12] That is of that when it had been called God Alone (dhaalikum bi-annahu idhaa du`iya allahu wahdahu), you had disbelieved, while if it were associated with Him, you believed. So, the judgment is with God: the High, the Great.
[40:14] So, you (all) shall call God being sincere to Him in the religion (fa-id’`uu allaha mukh’liseena lahu al-deena), even though it has disliked the disbelievers.
[40:20] And God judges with the truth, while those whom they call other than Him (wa-alladheena yad’`uuna min duunihi), they cannot judge with anything. Indeed, God: He is the Hearer, the Seer.
[40:26] Pharaoh said, “Leave me, I will kill Moses, and let him call his Lord (wal-yad’`u rabbahu). Indeed me, I fear that he will change your religion, or that he may cause to spread the corruption in the land.”
[40:41] “O my people, what is for me that I invite you to the salvation (maa lee ad’`uukum ilaa al-najati), while you invite me to the Fire (wa-tad’`uunanii ilaa al-naari).”
[40:42] “You invite me to disbelieve in God and to associate with Him (tad’`uunanii li’ak’fura bi-allahi wa-ush’rika bihi) what has not been for me any knowledge of it, and I invite you to the Almighty, the Forgiving (wa-anaa ad’`uukum ilaa al-`azeezi al-ghafaari).”
[40:43] “There is no doubt that what you invite me to it (laa-jarama annamaa tad’`uunanii ilayhi) has not been a call to it in the world, nor in the Hereafter, and that our return is to God, and that the transgressors – they are companions of the Fire.”
[40:49] And said those who are in the Fire to guardians of Hell, “Call upon your Lord to lighten from us a day of the punishment (id’`uu rabbakum yukaffif `annaa yawman mina al-`adhaabi).”
[40:50] They said, “Did not come to you your messengers with the clear proofs?” They (those who are in Hell) said, “Yes. They (messengers) said that you shall call (bal qaaluu fa-id’`uu), while a call of the disbelievers were not except in straying.”
[40:60] And your Lord said, “Call Me and I will respond to you (id’`uunii as’tajib lakum). Indeed, those who will be arrogant from worship of Me will enter Hell being humiliated ones.”
[40:65] He is the Living: there is no god except He. So, you shall call Him being sincere to Him in the religion (fa-id’`uuhu mukh’liseena lahu al-deena). All praise to God, Lord of the worlds.
[40:66] Say, “Indeed me, I (Muhammad) have been forbidden that I (Muhammad) worship those whom you call other than God (innii nuheetu an a`budu alladheena tad’`uuna min duuni allahi), when there had come to me the clear proofs from my Lord, and I (Muhammad) have been commanded that I (Muhammad) submit to Lord of the worlds.”
[40:74] “other than God?” They said, “They have gone away from us. Nay! we would not do to call anything before (bal lam nakun nad’`uu min qablu shayan).” Thus that God lets go astray the disbelievers.
[41:5] And they said, “Our hearts are in coverings of what you call us to it (quluubinaa fee akinnatin mimmaa tad’`uuna ilayhi), and in our ears there is deafness, and between of us and between of you (prophet) there is a barrier. So do (for yourself), indeed, we are doing (for ourselves).”
[41:33] And who is better in utterance than whoever has invited to God (wa-man ah’sanu qawlan mimman da`aa ilaa allahi) and has done as a righteous one, and has said: “Indeed, I am one of the Submitters.”
[41:48] And has lost from them what they had done to call (other than God) before (wa-dalla `anhum maa kaanuu yad’`uuna min qablu), and they have ascertained for them that there is no place of escape.
[42:13] He has decreed for you (all) of the religion what He had enjoined Noah of it, and which we have inspired to you (Muhammad), and what we had enjoined Abraham of it, and Moses, and Jesus. That you shall establish the religion and do not be divided in it. It has been difficult on the idol worshipers what you (prophet) call them to it (kabura `alaa al-mush’rikeena maa tad’`uuhum ilayhi). God chooses to Himself whomever He wills and He guides to Himself whoever turns (to Him).
[42:15] As for that then you (prophet) shall invite (fa-li’dhaalika fa-ud’`u) and shall be straight as that you have been commanded, and do not follow their desires and say, “I have believed in what God has sent down from a scripture and I have been commanded to do justice between yourselves. God is our Lord and your Lord. To us is our deeds and to you is your deeds. There is no argument between ourselves and between yourselves. God will gather ourselves and to Him is the final return.”
[43:49] And they said, “O the magician, call your (Moses) Lord for us with what He has promised with you (ud’`u lanaa rabbaka bimaa `ahida `indaka); indeed, we will surely be guided ones.”
[43:86] And those whom they call other than Him (wa-alladheena yad’`uuna min duunihi) do not possess power of the intercession, except who has testified with the truth, while they know.
[44:22] So, he (Moses) had called his Lord that these people are criminals (fa-da`aa rabbahu anna haa-ulaa-ika qawmun muj’rimuuna).”
[44:55] They will call therein every kind of fruit being secure (yad’`uuna feehaa bi-kulli faakihatin aamineena).
[45:28] And you will see every community is in kneeling. Every community will be called to its record (kullu ummatin tud’`aa ilaa kitaabihaa), “Today, you will be recompensed for whatever you had done to accomplish.
[46:4] Say, “Have you seen what you call other than God (a-ra-aytum tad’`uuna min duuni allahi)? Show Me what they have created from the earth, or is there a share for them in the heavens? Bring Me of a scripture before this, or a trace of knowledge, if you have been truthful ones.”
[46:5] And who is far astray than whoever calls other than God (wa-man adallu mimman min duuni allahi), who will not respond to him until a Day of the Resurrection, and they will be unaware from their calls.
[47:35] So, you do not weaken and call to the peace (wa-tad’`uu ilaa al-salmi), while you are the superior, and God is with yourselves and He will not deprive you of your deeds.
[47:38] Here are you – these are called to spend in God’s path (haa-ulaa-i tud’`awna li’tunfiquu) that there are among you whoever withholds, while whoever withholds, then he only withholds from himself. And God is the Rich while you are the poor. If you turn away, He will replace a people other than you, then they will not be like yourselves.
[48:16] Say to those who lagged behind of the Arabs: “You will be called to a people who possess a great military skill (sa-tud’`awna ilaa qawmin ulee basin shadeedin), you will fight them or they will surrender. Then if you obey, God will give you a good reward, but if you turn away like that you had turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.”
[52:28] Indeed we (the righteous in the Paradise), we had done before we called Him (innaa kunnaa min qablu nad’`uuhu); indeed, He is the Kind, the Merciful.”
[54:6] So, you shall turn away from them. A day the caller will call to a terrible thing (event) (yawma yad’`u al-daa`i ilaa shayin nukurin).
[54:10] So, he (Noah) had called his Lord (fa-da`aa rabbahu), “I am defeated, so help (me).”
[57:8] And what is for you that you do not believe in God, while the messenger calls you to believe in your Lord (wal-rasuulu yad’`uukum li’tu’minuu bi-rabbikum)? And certainly, He has taken your covenant, if you have been believers.
[61:7] And who is more unjust than whoever has invented the lie about God, while he is invited to the Submission (wa-huwa yud’`aa ilaa al-islaami)? And God does not guide the people of the wrongdoers.
[68:42] A day there will be uncovered from shin, and they will be called to the prostrations (wa-yud’`awna ilaa al-sujuudi), but they cannot be able.
[68:43] They are humbled, humiliation will cover them of their eyes. And certainly, they had been called to the prostration (wa-qad kaanuu yud’`awna ilaa al-sujuudi), while they were sound.
The core messages from reviewing 53 instances of da`aa found in 50 verses of 21 surahs in the Quran are: true believers in God’s revelation call their Lord in fear and hope; they call their adopted sons by their fathers; they do not enter prophet’s homes without his permission; they do not call other than God, who do not possess atom weight in the earth or in the heavens, nor a covering of a date seed; the Satan invites his allies to be dwellers of the Blazing fire; those whom are called other than God cannot respond their call and will deny their association on a day of Judgment; if an overloaded soul on a day of the resurrection calls for its load will not be carried anything from it; those whom are called other than God did not create, nor have they been given a scripture with a clear proof; when the adversity had touched the human being, then he called his Lord being turned to Him but when he is saved, he sets up rivals with Him; a day it will be announced that God’s hatred is greater than a hatred between yourselves when you were called to the faith; when it had been called to God alone, you disbelieved but when it were associated with Him, you believed; God judges with the truth, while those whom they call other than Him cannot judge with anything; a believer calls to the Paradise, while the disbelievers call to the Fire; the dwellers of the Hell call to the guardians of Hell to call upon their Lord to lighten from them their punishment, while they said that the messengers did not come to you with clear proofs, then they replied that the call of the disbelievers were not except for straying, while those who were arrogant from worship of God have entered the Hell; the prophet was forbidden to worship those whom his people called other than God; who is better in utterance than whoever invites to God; God has decreed religion for humans and whoever calls Him, He will guide him; who is far astray than whoever calls other than Him; those whom are called other than do not possess any power of intercession; the dwellers of the Paradise are there because they had called God before; a caller will call to a terrible event of those who had turned away from Him; God had taken a covenant from mankind that they will be believers of Him; who is more unjust than whoever has invented lie about God, then He does not guide a people of the wrongdoers; a day a party of people will be called for prostrations but they cannot do, while a party of people are able when they will be called for prostrations.
This review may help us understand that God has ordered us all to call Him alone being sincere in His religion, while He is the Living and there is god except Him, focusing on that those whom are called other Him have no power of intercession and a day a caller will call those who had turned away from Him, and the Satan is our great enemy who only invites his party to be among the dwellers of the Blazing fire.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (05/22/2026).