The du‘ā of Yūnus, refuge from anxiety and sorrow, the du‘ā of distress, and the Qur’ān’s verses on patience and ease, each with its source.
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When worry, a calamity or grief is heavy, the Qur’ān and the narrations give words to say. This page gathers the du‘ās the Sabīl library files under distress and grief, and the verses of the Qur’ān that speak of hardship, patience and ease. Each du‘ā is shown with its Arabic, a transliteration, its meaning and the source and grade the library gives; the narrations they come from are listed by number at the end. Under some verses the page also shows the notes of that edition; they are the edition’s words, not this page’s, and this page has not checked them. For your own circumstances, ask a scholar; and if the weight is more than words can carry, speak to someone near you, too.
What the Qur’ān says of hardship
The Qur’ān says plainly that people will be tested with something of fear and famine, and loss of property, lives and fruits, and it describes the patient as those who, when a calamity strikes them, say that they belong to Allah and will return to Him. Of them it says that blessings and mercy from their Lord are upon them.
Wale ambao ukiwapata msiba, husema: Hakika sisi ni wa Mwenyezi Mungu, na kwake Yeye hakika tutarejea.[1]
[1] Wao husema hivyo kwa sababu wanajua kwamba wanamilikiwa na Mwenyezi Mungu, wako chini ya amri yake na uendeshaji wake. Kwa hivyo, hatuna chochote katika nafsi zetu wala mali zetu. Na akitujaribu kwa kitu katika hayo, basi Yeye Mwingi wa rehema atakuwa amewaendesha wamilikiwa wake na mali zake. Kwa hivyo haifai kuwa na pingamizi lolote dhidi yake.
Qur’ani 2:156Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
Wale walioamini na zikatua nyoyo zao kwa kumtaja Mwenyezi Mungu. Sikilizeni! Kwa kumtaja Mwenyezi Mungu ndiyo nyoyo hutua!
Qur’ani 13:28Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
The call of Yūnus, and refuge from anxiety and sorrow
The first card of the Du‘ā Compilation headed “Distress & grief” holds two du‘ās. The first is the call of Yūnus from the darkness, from Qur’ān 21:87: a declaration that there is no god but Allah, a glorification of Him, and an admission of wrong. Its source line quotes at-Tirmidhī’s narration that no Muslim supplicates with it for anything but that Allah answers him, with the grade ṣaḥīḥ.
The second asks for refuge from eight things, in pairs: anxiety and sorrow, incapacity and idleness, cowardice and miserliness, the burden of debt and being overpowered by men. The library cites it to al-Bukhārī with the grade ṣaḥīḥ.
Tafsiri ya rasimu: imetengenezwa na mashine kutoka Kiarabu na Kiingereza, na bado haijasomwa na mwanazuoni wala mhariri mzawa wa lugha. Pale mstari usipoeleweka, onyesha Kiingereza na utegemee Kiarabu.
Mistari inayohusu hukumu huonyeshwa kila mara pamoja na Kiingereza cha chapa chini yake. Mstari ambao rasimu yake haikupita ukaguzi huonyeshwa kwa Kiingereza pekee.
allāhumma innī a‘ūdhu bika minal-hammi wal-ḥazan, wal-‘ajzi wal-kasal, wal-jubni wal-bukhl, wa ḍala‘id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijāl
Ewe Allah, najikinga Kwako kutokana na wasiwasi na huzuni, kutokana na kutoweza na uvivu, kutokana na woga na ubahili, kutokana na mzigo wa deni na kushindwa nguvu na watu.
The verse of Yūnus’s call, and the verse after it, which says that Allah answered him and rescued him from distress, and that this is how He rescues the believers:
Na Dhun-Nun alipoondoka hali ameghadhabika, na akadhani ya kwamba hatutamtia dhikini. Basi aliita katika giza: Hakuna mungu isipokuwa Wewe Subhanaka (Uliyetakasika). Hakika mimi nilikuwa miongoni mwa wenye kudhulumu.
Qur’ani 21:87Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
Basi tukamwitikia na tukamwokoa kutokana na dhiki. Na hivyo ndivyo tunavyowaokoa Waumini.
Qur’ani 21:88Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
Asking for all your affairs to be set right
The second card under the same heading has one du‘ā, calling on Allah as the Ever-Living and the Sustainer, asking for relief by His mercy, for all one’s affairs to be set right, and not to be left to oneself for the blink of an eye. The library cites it to an-Nasā’ī in ‘Amal al-Yawm wal-Laylah with the grade ḥasan.
Tafsiri ya rasimu: imetengenezwa na mashine kutoka Kiarabu na Kiingereza, na bado haijasomwa na mwanazuoni wala mhariri mzawa wa lugha. Pale mstari usipoeleweka, onyesha Kiingereza na utegemee Kiarabu.
Mistari inayohusu hukumu huonyeshwa kila mara pamoja na Kiingereza cha chapa chini yake. Mstari ambao rasimu yake haikupita ukaguzi huonyeshwa kwa Kiingereza pekee.
Ewe Uliye Hai daima, ewe Msimamizi wa kila kitu, kwa rehema Yako naomba nusura. Nitengenezee mambo yangu yote, wala usiniachie nafsi yangu hata kwa kupepesa kwa jicho.
Kiingereza cha chapa, huonyeshwa kila mara:
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.
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Dokezo
Huzuni inapokunyang’anya maneno, haya ndiyo huwa maneno. Ikiwa hujayahifadhi moyoni, yasome — kusoma nako ni dua.
Beneath it the card has a note of the library’s own: when grief takes a person’s words away, these become the words, and someone who has not memorised them can read them, since reading is also supplication.
At any calamity
The Pocket Companion has a card headed “Distress & anxiety”. It begins with a du‘ā it labels “At any calamity”, which praises Allah as the Mighty, the Forbearing, Lord of the Mighty Throne and of the heavens and the earth. Its source line calls it the du‘ā of distress and cites al-Bukhārī and Muslim with the grade ṣaḥīḥ.
Tafsiri ya rasimu: imetengenezwa na mashine kutoka Kiarabu na Kiingereza, na bado haijasomwa na mwanazuoni wala mhariri mzawa wa lugha. Pale mstari usipoeleweka, onyesha Kiingereza na utegemee Kiarabu.
Mistari inayohusu hukumu huonyeshwa kila mara pamoja na Kiingereza cha chapa chini yake. Mstari ambao rasimu yake haikupita ukaguzi huonyeshwa kwa Kiingereza pekee.
The card then gives the two du‘ās of the first card above again. The du‘ā of Yūnus is in the same Arabic, its meaning in slightly different words. In the refuge du‘ā the Pocket Companion has miserliness and cowardice the other way round from the Du‘ā Compilation, and gives the meaning as a short list. The library cites both wordings to al-Bukhārī, and this page does not choose between them.
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 one of its texts, the du‘ā for the one who has died: how the whole of it is to be printed, and how it is rendered. So the card is not quoted here. To read it as the library has it, open the Pocket Companion’s “Grief & death” card. The words said at a calamity in 2:156, above, are the Qur’ān’s own.
References
Verses of the Qur’ān, by sūrah and verse, shown above: 2:155–157; 13:28; 21:87–88; 94:5–6.
Narrations, by collection and number as sunnah.com numbers them: al-Bukhārī by the numbering of Fatḥ al-Bārī; Muslim by Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī’s numbers, with the letter sunnah.com adds where it divides one; al-Tirmidhī by sunnah.com’s numbering of the Jāmiʿ. The library names the collection under each du‘ā; the number is the narration it cites.
The du‘ā of Yūnus, and that it is answered: Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī 3505.
Refuge from anxiety and sorrow: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6369; in the Pocket Companion’s order, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6363.
The du‘ā of distress: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6346; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2730a.
The du‘ā calling on Allah as the Ever-Living and the Sustainer: an-Nasā’ī, ‘Amal al-Yawm wal-Laylah, as the library cites it. sunnah.com does not carry that book, so no number is given here.
From the Sabīl library: the Du‘ā Compilation, the two cards “Distress & grief”; the Pocket Companion, the card “Distress & anxiety”, and the card “Grief & death”, linked, not quoted.
Where to go next
Du‘ā by need has the rest of the Du‘ā Compilation, arranged by what you are asking for.