What is the prayer to supplicate when one is distressed and a huge calamity has befallen him? Is there anything advised from hadith by the prophet

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

When Nabi Salalahu Alayhi Wasallam would be faced with a calamity he would recite the following dua: [1]

Transliteration: Authu bii kalimatillahi taamati min gadabihi wa min shari ibadihi wa min shari hamazati shaytan wa anyhduroon.

Nabi Salalahu Alayhi Wasallam would recite the following dua when He would be distressed: [2]

Allahuma ana abduk wabnu abdik wabnu amatik fi qabthatik nasiyati biyadik mathin fi hukmuk adlun fi qadauk asaluka bikuli ismin huwa laka sammayta bihi nafsak aw anzultahu fi kitabik aw ullamtahu ahadan min khalqik aw istatharta bihi fi ilmil ghaibi indak an tjalal Quraan al-atheem nura sadri wa rabeea qalbi wa jalaa a huzni wa thahaba hummi.

It is also mentioned in a hadith that person who continuously reads istigfar Allah Taala will create a path for him from every difficulty and from every grief relief, and Allah Taala will give him rizq from where he wouldn’t fathom. [3]

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Ismail Dawoodjee

Student Darul Iftaa
Zambia

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

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