Hard moments
Duas for anxiety, healing, and hardship
Source-cited supplications for worry, illness, pain, grief, and difficult moments—Arabic, transliteration, meaning, and guidance for when to recite them.
These duas are a way to turn toward Allah in a hard moment. They do not replace medical care, professional support, or the practical help a situation may require.
Dua When Visiting the Sick
No worry, it is a purification, if Allah wills.
illnessDua for Healing (Shifa)
O Allah, Lord of mankind, remove the suffering. Heal, for You are the Healer. There is no healing except Your healing — a healing that leaves no illness behind.
illnessDua When Placing Hand on Pain
In the name of Allah (3 times). I seek refuge in Allah and in His power from the evil of what I find and what I fear (7 times). Recite while placing the hand on the place of pain.
illnessDua for Patience in Calamity
Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return. O Allah, reward me in my calamity and give me something better than it in exchange.
illnessDua to Remove Anxiety
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, from incapacity and laziness, from miserliness and cowardice, from the burden of debt and from being overpowered by men.
illnessDua for Bodily Well-Being
O Allah, grant me well-being in my body. O Allah, grant me well-being in my hearing. O Allah, grant me well-being in my sight. There is no god but You. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from disbelief and poverty. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave. There is no god but You.