In sadness, anxiety or a hard situation, the sunnah gives precise words to say. Five authentic invocations, in Arabic, phonetics and English, each with its source, to go through the trial without being alone.
In any distress, anguish or hardship.
لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Lā ilāha illā anta subḥānaka innī kuntu mina-ẓ-ẓālimīn
None has the right to be worshipped but You. Glory be to You! I have truly been among the wrongdoers. (Duʿā of Yūnus inside the whale · Quran 21:87.)
Tirmidhi 3505 · authenticated by al-AlbaniIts merit “No Muslim ever supplicates with these words for anything except that Allah answers him.”
When sadness or anxiety take hold.
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي عَبْدُكَ، ابْنُ عَبْدِكَ، ابْنُ أَمَتِكَ، نَاصِيَتِي بِيَدِكَ، مَاضٍ فِيَّ حُكْمُكَ، عَدْلٌ فِيَّ قَضَاؤُكَ، أَسْأَلُكَ بِكُلِّ اسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ، سَمَّيْتَ بِهِ نَفْسَكَ، أَوْ أَنْزَلْتَهُ فِي كِتَابِكَ، أَوْ عَلَّمْتَهُ أَحَدًا مِنْ خَلْقِكَ، أَوِ اسْتَأْثَرْتَ بِهِ فِي عِلْمِ الْغَيْبِ عِنْدَكَ، أَنْ تَجْعَلَ الْقُرْآنَ رَبِيعَ قَلْبِي، وَنُورَ صَدْرِي، وَجَلَاءَ حُزْنِي، وَذَهَابَ هَمِّي
Allāhumma innī ʿabduk, ibnu ʿabdik, ibnu amatik, nāṣiyatī bi-yadik, māḍin fiyya ḥukmuk, ʿadlun fiyya qaḍā’uk, as’aluka bi-kulli-smin huwa lak, sammayta bihi nafsak, aw anzaltahu fī kitābik, aw ʿallamtahu aḥadan min khalqik, awi-sta’tharta bihi fī ʿilmi-l-ghaybi ʿindak, an tajʿala-l-Qur’āna rabīʿa qalbī, wa nūra ṣadrī, wa jalā’a ḥuznī, wa dhahāba hammī
O Allah, I am Your servant, son of Your servant and of Your maidservant. My forelock is in Your hand, Your judgement over me is carried out, Your decree upon me is just. I ask You by every name that is Yours, by which You have named Yourself, or which You revealed in Your Book, or which You taught to one of Your creatures, or which You kept with Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen, to make the Quran the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the removal of my sadness and the departure of my worry.
Ahmad 3712 · authenticated by al-Albani (Silsila Sahiha 199)At times of affliction (karb).
لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ الْعَظِيمُ الْحَلِيمُ، لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ، لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَرَبُّ الْأَرْضِ وَرَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْكَرِيمِ
Lā ilāha illa-Llāhu-l-ʿaẓīmu-l-ḥalīm, lā ilāha illa-Llāhu rabbu-l-ʿarshi-l-ʿaẓīm, lā ilāha illa-Llāhu rabbu-s-samāwāti wa rabbu-l-arḍi wa rabbu-l-ʿarshi-l-karīm
None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, the Mighty, the Forbearing. None but Allah, Lord of the Mighty Throne. None but Allah, Lord of the heavens, the earth and the Noble Throne.
Sahih al-Bukhari 6346 · Sahih Muslim 2730In hardship; the Prophet ﷺ also recommended it morning and evening.
يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ، أَصْلِحْ لِي شَأْنِي كُلَّهُ، وَلَا تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ
Yā Ḥayyu yā Qayyūmu bi-raḥmatika astaghīth, aṣliḥ lī sha’nī kullah, wa lā takilnī ilā nafsī ṭarfata ʿayn
O Ever-Living, O Self-Sustaining, by Your mercy I cry for help: set right all my affairs, and do not leave me to myself even for the blink of an eye.
An-Nasa’i (ʿAmal al-yawm) · al-Hakim, hasanMorning and evening, and whenever worry sets in.
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْهَمِّ وَالْحَزَنِ، وَالْعَجْزِ وَالْكَسَلِ، وَالْبُخْلِ وَالْجُبْنِ، وَضَلَعِ الدَّيْنِ وَغَلَبَةِ الرِّجَالِ
Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika mina-l-hammi wa-l-ḥazan, wa-l-ʿajzi wa-l-kasal, wa-l-bukhli wa-l-jubn, wa ḍalaʿi-d-dayni wa ghalabati-r-rijāl
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, incapacity and laziness, miserliness and cowardice, the burden of debt and being overpowered by men.
Sahih al-Bukhari 6369Mounis reports and sources, in order: the Quran, then the Sunnah. It never gives rulings: for jurisprudence, refer to the people of knowledge.
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