Du‘ā for anxiety, distress and grief
The du‘ās the Sabīl library files under distress, anxiety and grief. Those quoted are shown with their Arabic, transliteration, meaning, and the source and grade the library gives.
AI ne ya rubuta · ana jiran bitar malamai
AI ne ya rubuta kalmomin wannan maƙala daga laburaren Sabīl da tushensa, kuma AI ne ya duba su ta hanyar kwatanta su da waɗannan. Babu malamin da ya yi mata bita tukuna. Rubutun Larabci, da ma’anoninsu da tushensu na laburare ne da na Alƙur’ani kansu, an nuna su daidai yadda suke a can. Don fatawa a kan halin da kuke ciki, ku tambayi malamin da ya cancanta.
Ba a rubuta wannan maƙala da wannan harshe ba tukuna. Ana nuna ta da Turanci.
An wallafa a ranar 3 Oktoba 2026Karatun minti 5
This page gathers the du‘ās in the Sabīl library for a heavy heart: for worry, for a calamity, and for grief. Each one quoted here is shown as the library has it, with its Arabic, a transliteration, its meaning, and the source and grade the library gives it.
It gives no ruling, and it sets no time or number for any of these words. For anything about your own circumstances, ask a scholar.
The call of Yūnus, and refuge from anxiety and sorrow
The first card of the Du‘ā Compilation headed "Distress & grief" has two du‘ās. Its source line names the first as the call of Yūnus from the darkness and gives the verse, Qur’ān 21:87. The same line adds, citing at-Tirmidhī with the grade ṣaḥīḥ, that no Muslim supplicates with it for anything but that Allah answers him. The second du‘ā asks for refuge from eight things, anxiety and sorrow first among them; the library cites it to al-Bukhārī and grades it ṣaḥīḥ.
Daftarin fassara: na’ura ce ta yi shi daga Larabci da Turanci, kuma malami ko edita ɗan harshen bai karanta shi ba tukuna. Inda wani layi bai fito fili ba, ku nuna Turancin, ku kuma dogara da Larabcin.
The verse the first du‘ā is taken from, in full:
Kuma mai kifi[1] a sã'ad da ya tafi yanã mai hushi, sai ya yi zaton cẽwa ba zã Mu ƙuƙunta masa ba. Sai ya yi kira a cikin duffai cẽwa, "Bãbu abĩn bautãwa fãce Kai. Tsarki ya tabbata a gare Ka. Lalle ne nĩ, na kasance daga azzãlumai."
[1] Shĩ ne Yũnus bn Matta. Yãyi hushi da mutãnensa dõmin ba su karɓi addini ba, sai ya bar su tun a gabãnin a yi masa iznin barinsu. Sai Allah Ya jarrabe shi da fãɗãwã cikin ruwa har wani kĩfi ya haɗiye Shi, sa'an nan kuma ya amãyo Shi a bãyan wahala, ya kõma wa mutãnensa. Suka yĩ ĩmãni.
Asking for all your affairs to be set right
The second card under the same heading has a single du‘ā, which the library cites to an-Nasā’ī in ‘Amal al-Yawm wal-Laylah and grades ḥasan. Beneath it the card carries a note of the library's own, for when grief takes a person's words away: it says that these du‘ās become the words, and that someone who has not memorised them can read them, since reading is also supplication.
Daftarin fassara: na’ura ce ta yi shi daga Larabci da Turanci, kuma malami ko edita ɗan harshen bai karanta shi ba tukuna. Inda wani layi bai fito fili ba, ku nuna Turancin, ku kuma dogara da Larabcin.
At any calamity
The Pocket Companion's "Distress & anxiety" card begins with a du‘ā it labels "At any calamity". Its source line calls it the du‘ā of distress, cites al-Bukhārī and Muslim, and grades it ṣaḥīḥ.
The same card then gives the two du‘ās of the first card above a second time. The du‘ā of Yūnus is in the same Arabic, with its meaning in slightly different words. In the refuge du‘ā the Pocket Companion has the words for miserliness and cowardice the other way round from the Du‘ā Compilation, and it gives the meaning as a short list. The library cites both wordings to al-Bukhārī, and this page does not choose between them.
Daftarin fassara: na’ura ce ta yi shi daga Larabci da Turanci, kuma malami ko edita ɗan harshen bai karanta shi ba tukuna. Inda wani layi bai fito fili ba, ku nuna Turancin, ku kuma dogara da Larabcin.
When the grief is for someone who has died
The Pocket Companion has a card headed "Grief & death", in four parts: what is said on hearing of a death, a du‘ā for the one who has died, words for consoling the bereaved, and the greeting at a grave.
The library's own checking has not yet settled questions about some of the texts on that card: their wording, how they are rendered, and the book one of them is cited to. So the card is not quoted here. To read it as the library has it, open the Pocket Companion's "Grief & death" card.
Where to go next
- Du‘ā by need has the rest of the Du‘ā Compilation, arranged by what you are asking for.
- The Du‘ā Compilation and the Pocket Companion can be printed as cards to keep with you.
- Janāzah is the library's title on what is done when a Muslim dies.