Supplication in Times of Need
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Bismillah
The following is a beneficial du’a that Sayyidi Habib Umar mentioned in one of the Red Sulfur lessons. Please benefit and share:
Imam Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah relate in their Sunan collections, and likewise Nasa’i in `Amal al-Yawm w’al-Layla, Tabarani, Hakim, Bayhaqi and others on the authority of `Uthman ibn Hunayf that a blind man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: “Ask Allah to heal me.” He replied: “If you wish I will pray for you and if you wish you can be patient for this is better for you.” “Pray to Allah for me” he said. So the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) ordered him to make good his wudu’ and then to make the following supplication:
اللهم إني أسألك وأتوجه إليك بنبيك محمد نبي الرحمة، يا محمد إني أتوجه بك إلى ربي في حاجتي هذه لتقضى، اللهم فشفعه فيّ‘O Allah, I ask You and I turn to You by Your Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy. O Muhammad! I turn by you to my Lord concerning this need of mine that it may be fulfilled. O Allah, grant him intercession for me.’
`Uthman bin Hunayf said: “By Allah we did not disperse nor did we converse for long before the man entered and it was if there had never been anything wrong with him.” The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) then said to him: “if there is a similar need, do the same.”
And Allah Most High knows best.
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Asalamualaikum Shaykh,
Jazakallah for the post. It’s beautiful Masya Allah. I am writing with regards to what our beloved Prophet said to the man,”If you wish, I can pray for you, and if you wish you can be patient for this is better for you..” Does this mean, it is more superior not to make doa to free us of our affliction or cure us of our pain and illness, rather just make doa for Allah swt to increase our patience in times of need? Jazakallahu Khyr. -Farah