Explanation of the Duʿāʾ for Grief and Sorrow
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Nothing can remove these matters of sadness, grief, worry, melancholy or depression except to return to Allāh with a true return, and a complete breaking down before Allāh, and a total submission to Him, and humbling oneself before Him and submitting one's affair to him in totality, and a complete belief in the just decree of Allāh. Alongside this, the actualisation and firm belief in the Highest Loftiest Names and Attributes of Allāh and believing in His Book, and to be concerned with reciting and reflecting upon His Book, and acting upon what is in it. With this, and not with anything else, these matters of sadness, grief and worry are removed. This is the manner of removing regret and with this alone will the chest open and serenity, peace and harmony will be brought and happiness will be actualised.
It is recorded with Imam Aḥmad, Saḥīḥ ibn Hibbān and other than them on the authority of ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (raḍi Allāhu ͑anhū) that the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ͑ alayhī wa-sallam) said,
‘No servant has ever said when met with sorrow, grief or worry, saying:
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي عَبْدُكَ ابْنُ عَبْدِكَ ابْنُ أَمَتِكَ نَاصِيَتِي بِيَدِكَ، مَاض ٍ فِيَّ حُكْمُكَ، عَدْل ٌ فِيَّ قَضَاؤُكَ أَسْأَلُكَ بِكُلِّ اِسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ سَمَّيْتَ بِه ِِ نَفْسَكَ أَوْ أَنْزَلْتَه ُُ فِي كِتَابِكَ، أَوْ عَلَّمْتَهُ~ُ أَحَدا ً مِنْ خَلْقِكَ أَوِ اسْتَأْثَرْتَ بِه ِِ فِي عِلْمِ الغَيْبِ عِنْدَكَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ القُرْآنَ رَبِيْعَ قَلْبِي، وَنوْرَ صَدْرِي وَجَلَاءَ حُزْنِي وَذَهَابَ هَمِّي
O Allāh, I am Your servant, son of Your servant, son of Your maidservant, my forelock is in Your hand (i.e. You have total mastery over), Your command over me is forever executed and Your decree over me is just. I ask You by every name belonging to You which You named Yourself with, or revealed in Your Book, or You taught to any of Your creation, or You have preserved in the knowledge of the unseen with You, that You make the Qurʾān the life of my heart and the light of my breast, and a departure for my sorrow and a release for my anxiety.’
Except that Allāh will remove his sadness grief and worry, and he will replace it with happiness.’ They (the Companions) said, ‘O Messenger of Allāh! It befits us that we learn these words.’ He said ‘Yes, it befits the one who hears them to learn them.’1
Endnotes:
1 This is recorded in the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad and authenticated as Ṣaḥiḥ by
Shaykh al-Albānī in his Aḥādith al-Ṣaḥīḥah
No.199 and there is an explanation in al-Fawāʾid of Imām Ibn Qayyim (raḥimahullāh).
Explained
by Abū ʿUways ʿAbdullāh Aḥmad ͑Alī (may Allāh
have mercy upon him)
Written by Umm Yūsufyān
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Added for the benefit of New Muslims (for easy
memorization of the above du’aa)
Allaahumma ‘innee ‘abduka, ibnu ‘abdika ibnu
‘amatika, naasiyatee biyadika, maadhin fiyya hukmuka, ‘adlun fiyya qadhaa’uka,
‘as ‘aluka bikulli ismiin huwa laka, sammayta bihi nafsaka, ‘aw ‘anzaltahu fee
kitaabika, ‘aw ‘allamtahu ‘ahadan min khalqika ‘awista’tharta bihi fee
‘ilmil-ghaybi ‘indaka, ‘an
taj’alal-Qur’aana rabee’a qalbee, wa noora sadree, wa jalaa’ huznee, wa thahaaba
hammee.1
For sisters it should be:
اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي أَمَتُك ، بِنْتُ عَبْدِك
، ابْنِ أَمَتِك
Allahumma ‘innee’
‘amatika bintu ‘abdika ibni amatika…2
1 حصن المسلم Fortress of the Muslim, p. 140-141 (Invocation from the Qur’ân and Sunnah) by Sa’îd bin Wahf Al-Qahtani
رحمه الله
2 مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية (2/177)
