Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen –Rahimahullaah – said:
“…and removing harm from the
path to people’s
hearts and righteous deeds, has a greater reward and more urgency than removing harm from
pathways where people walk.”
[Riyadh as-Saliheen 2/177)
Translation by Miraath Publications
(A Collection of Beneficial Statements)
Explanation of the Duʿāʾ for Grief and Sorrow
....
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)
From Ibn Umar-RadiAllaahu anhumma – who said:
“We would count that the Messenger of Allaah –sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam- would say in one sitting one hundred times:
رَبِّ اغْفِرْليِ وَتُبْ عَلَيَّ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ
“O my Lord forgive me and accept my repentance indeed You are the One who forgives and Most Merciful.”
Rab-bigh-firlee wa tubb alayya Innaka anta
at-Tawaabu ar-Raheem.
[Collected by Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi &
authenticated by Albaani in Saheeh Abi
Dawood 5/248]
Translation source: Miraath Publications
Impatience does not remove the difficulty
Shaykh Salih Fawzan said: The keys to happiness
are three, as mentioned by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab. 1. When the person
is tested he is patient 2. When he is blessed he is grateful 3. When he sins he
seeks forgiveness
When the person is tested he is patient with the
decree of Allah. He does not become
despondent or angry. He knows that whatever befalls him is due to his sins.
وَمَا
أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ
(30)
And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much. (Soorah Ahsh-Shûraa 42:30)
Therefore
he takes himself to account and rectifies his actions and as a result his
calamity becomes a benefit for him and a wake-up call.
This
is in contrast to the person who when tested becomes despondent and angry. His
impatience does not save him from the calamity nor does it allow him to reap
the reward of patience. Thus he loses on both fronts.
أسباب السعادة
https://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/en/node/14350
Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee حفظه الله
‘Umar ‘Abdul ‘Azeez رحمه الله said:
“For verily the
admonishers regarding taqwa (piety) are many, however those who act upon it are
few.”
[Al-Hilyah 5/267]
Source: MarkazMuaadh.com
5:30 PM · Oct 6, 2021 /
“If the Messenger of
Allah ﷺ saw something he liked,
he would say, “All
praise belongs to Allah by whose grace good deeds are completed.”
If he ﷺ saw something he disliked,
he would say, “All praise belongs to Allah in all circumstances.”” Ibn Majah
Translation source: Hikmah Publications
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Added for the benefit of New Muslim
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي بِنِعْمَتِهِ تَتِمُّ الصَّالِحَاتُ
Alhamdulillahil lathee bi ni’matihi tatimmus
saalihaat
“All praise belongs to Allah by whose grace good deeds are completed.”
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ عَلَى
كُلِّ حَالٍ
Alhamdulillah ‘alaa kulli haal
“All praise belongs to
Allah in all circumstances.”
Sadness that Hits You and You Don't
Know the Reason
Ibn Taymiyah said:
Sufyān Ibn ‘Uyaynah
was asked about sadness that afflicts a person and he doesn’t know the reason.
He replied: “That is due to a sin
which you contemplated doing but didn’t; you were given, as a recompense for
it, sorrow.”
Shaykh Al-Islām said: “Sins have punishments. That which is done secrectly (is
punished) secretly and that which is done openly (is punished) openly.”
Al-Majmū’ 14/111
Trans. By Raha Batts (may Allāh
preserve him)
4:15 AM · Aug 20, 2021