Du‘ā

What du‘ā is said in anxiety, distress and grief?

From the Sabīl library · scholarly review pending

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07Distress & grief · I

لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ

lā ilāha illā anta subḥānaka innī kuntu minaẓ-ẓālimīn

There is no god but You; glory be to You; I was among the wrongdoers.

Q 21:87 — the call of Yūnus from the darkness. “No Muslim supplicates with it for anything but that Allah answers him.” Tirmidhī · ṣaḥīḥ

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْهَمِّ وَالْحَزَنِ، وَالْعَجْزِ وَالْكَسَلِ، وَالْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ، وَضَلَعِ الدَّيْنِ وَغَلَبَةِ الرِّجَالِ

allāhumma innī a‘ūdhu bika minal-hammi wal-ḥazan, wal-‘ajzi wal-kasal, wal-jubni wal-bukhl, wa ḍala‘id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijāl

O Allah, I seek refuge in You from anxiety and sorrow, from incapacity and idleness, from cowardice and miserliness, from the burden of debt and from being overpowered by men.

Bukhārī · ṣaḥīḥ

08Distress & grief · II

يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ، أَصْلِحْ لِي شَأْنِي كُلَّهُ وَلَا تَكِلْنِي إِلَىٰ نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ

yā ḥayyu yā qayyūmu bi-raḥmatika astaghīth, aṣliḥ lī sha’nī kullahu wa lā takilnī ilā nafsī ṭarfata ‘ayn

O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, by Your mercy I seek relief. Set right all my affairs, and do not entrust me to myself for the blink of an eye.

Nasā’ī in ‘Amal al-Yawm wal-Laylah · ḥasan

A note

When grief takes your words away, these become the words. If you have not memorised them, read them — reading is also supplication.

From Du‘ā Compilation · Open the full title

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