Supplication For Worry and Concern

Abdullah ibn Masūd said:

‘The Messenger of Allah said:

“No slave says when touched by distress or grief

‫اللّهُمﱠ إِنّيْ عَبْدُكَ ابْنُ عَبْدِكَ ابْنُ أَمَتِكَ نَاصِيَتِيْ بِيَدِكَ مَاضٍ فِﱠ‬

ِ‫حُكْمُكَ عَدْلٌ فِﱠ قَضَاؤُكَ أَسْأَلُكَ بِكُلّ اسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ سَمﱠيْتَ بِه‬

َ‫نَفْسَكَ أَوْ أَنْزَلْتَهُ فِْ كِتَابِكَ أَوْ عَلﱠمْتَهُ أَحَداً مِنْ خَلْقِكَ أَوِ اسْتَأْثَرْت‬

ْ‫بِهِ فِْ عِلْمِ الْغَيْبِ عِنْدَكَ أَنْ جتَْعَلَ الْقُرْآنَ رَبِيْعَ قَلْبِيْ وَنُوْرَ بَصَرِي‬

ْ‫وَجَالءَ حُزْنِيْ وَذَهَابَ هَمّي‬

except that Allah removes his concern, clears his grief and replaces his grief
with joy.”

They said: “O Messenger of Allah, should we not learn these words?”

He said: “Yes, it is fitting for whoever hears them to learn them.”

 Transliteration

Allāhumma īnī ‘abudka ibnu ‘abdika ibnu amatika nāṣiyatī bi-yadika māḍin
fiyya ḥukmuka ‘adlun fiyya qaḍāuka asaluka bi kulli smin huwa laka
sammayta bihi nafsaka aw anzaltahu fi kitabika aw ‘allamtahu aḥadam min
khalqika awi-sta’tharta bihi fī ‘ilmh’l-ghaybi ‘indaka an taj’ala ‘l-qur’āna rabī’a
qalbī wa nūra baṣarī wa jalāa ḥuznī wa dhahāba hammī

Translation

O Allah, truly I am your slave, the son of your slave, the son of your female
slave. My forelock is in your control, Your judgement passes through me and
Your decree is just with me. I ask You by every name which is Yours by which
You have named Yourself, or have revealed in Your Book, or have taught to
anyone in Your creation, or have kept in Your knowledge of the unseen to
make the Quran the spring of my heart, the light of my sight, that which clears
my grief and the remover of my worry.