Dua for Seeking Refuge
“O Allah! I seek refuge in You from doing wrong and being wronged, from envying and being envied, and from tyrannizing and being tyrannized.”
When a problem confronts us, and we are unable to decide how to resolve it, should we not turn to Allah? Ask Him to set us in the right direction? After all, no one can be closer to us than He is. So why do we ignore Him? It is related on the authority of Jabir ibn Abd Allah that the Prophet, upon him be peace, used to teach his companions to seek, through a special dua, Allah’s guidance in all matters, which affected them. He said, upon him be peace:
“When you are confused about what you should do in a certain situation, then pray two rakat of nafl salah (supererogatory oprayer) and read the following dua:
O Allah, I ask You, of Your knowledge, for guidance and of Your power, for strength; and I ask You of Your excessive generosity. Certainly You are powerful and I am not, and You are the Knower of the unknown. O Allah, if You know this matter (here the supplicant should substitute for the words, ‘this matter’ whatever it is specifically that he has in mind, for example, this journey, or marriage, etc.) to be good for my religion, my worldly life, my life in the next world, my present sate of affairs or my future state, then decree it for me and make it easy, and bless me in it. And if You know this matter to be detrimental to my religion, my worldly life, my life in the next world, my present state of affairs or my future state, then divert it from me, and turn me away from it, and decree for me that which is good, wherever it may be. And then make me to be pleased with it.”
Credit: Remembrance & Prayer: The Way of Prophet Muhammad by Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali (translated by Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo)
“O Allah! I seek refuge in You from doing wrong and being wronged, from envying and being envied, and from tyrannizing and being tyrannized.”
When a problem confronts us, and we are unable to decide how to resolve it, should we not turn to Allah? Ask Him to set us in the right direction? After all, no one can be closer to us than He is. So why do we ignore Him? It is related on the authority of Jabir ibn Abd Allah that the Prophet, upon him be peace, used to teach his companions to seek, through a special dua, Allah’s guidance in all matters, which affected them. He said, upon him be peace:
“When you are confused about what you should do in a certain situation, then pray two rakat of nafl salah (supererogatory oprayer) and read the following dua:
O Allah, I ask You, of Your knowledge, for guidance and of Your power, for strength; and I ask You of Your excessive generosity. Certainly You are powerful and I am not, and You are the Knower of the unknown. O Allah, if You know this matter (here the supplicant should substitute for the words, ‘this matter’ whatever it is specifically that he has in mind, for example, this journey, or marriage, etc.) to be good for my religion, my worldly life, my life in the next world, my present sate of affairs or my future state, then decree it for me and make it easy, and bless me in it. And if You know this matter to be detrimental to my religion, my worldly life, my life in the next world, my present state of affairs or my future state, then divert it from me, and turn me away from it, and decree for me that which is good, wherever it may be. And then make me to be pleased with it.”
Credit: Remembrance & Prayer: The Way of Prophet Muhammad by Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali (translated by Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo)
