Remembrance

أذكار

Adhkār

‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured.

Ar-Raʿd 13:28

480 adhkār in 23 sets

What to say over your own pain, and what to say at the bedside of someone who is ill.

  1. Reciting over yourself

    Qur’an

    When he ﷺ was ill he recited the Muʿawwidhāt over himself and blew lightly; when the pain grew hard, Sayyidatunā ʿĀʾishah recited them over him and wiped him with his own hand for its blessing.

  2. A hand where it hurts

    بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ، بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ، بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ، أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ وَقُدْرَتِهِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَجِدُ وَأُحَاذِرُ

    Bismi-llāh, bismi-llāh, bismi-llāh. Aʿūdhu billāhi wa qudratihi min sharri mā ajidu wa uḥādhir.

    In the name of Allah, in the name of Allah, in the name of Allah. I take refuge in Allah and His power from the evil of what I feel and what I fear.

    Put your hand on the place that hurts: say “bismi-llāh” three times, then the words of refuge seven times.

  3. Al-Fātiḥah as a ruqyah

    Qur’an

    A Companion recited it over a man stung by a scorpion, and he was cured. “And how did you know it is a ruqyah?”

  4. If you must speak of death

    اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتِ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي، وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتِ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي

    Allāhumma aḥyinī mā kānati-l-ḥayātu khayran lī, wa tawaffanī idhā kānati-l-wafātu khayran lī.

    O Allah, keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and take me when death is better for me.

    Let none of you wish for death because of some harm that befalls him; if he must, let him say this.

  5. From leprosy, madness and evil diseases

    اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْبَرَصِ وَالْجُنُونِ وَالْجُذَامِ وَمِنْ سَيِّئِ الأَسْقَامِ

    Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika mina-l-baraṣi wa-l-junūni wa-l-judhām, wa min sayyiʾi-l-asqām.

    O Allah, I take refuge in You from leprosy, madness and elephantiasis, and from evil diseases.

  6. Five sayings, in illness

    لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ، لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ، لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَلاَ حَوْلَ وَلاَ قُوَّةَ إِلاَّ بِاللَّهِ

    Lā ilāha illa-llāhu wa-llāhu akbar. Lā ilāha illa-llāhu waḥdah. Lā ilāha illa-llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lah. Lā ilāha illa-llāhu lahu-l-mulku wa lahu-l-ḥamd. Lā ilāha illa-llāhu wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh.

    There is no god but Allah, and Allah is greatest. There is no god but Allah alone. There is no god but Allah alone, with no partner. There is no god but Allah; His is the dominion and His is the praise. There is no god but Allah, and there is no might and no power except by Allah.

    At each, his Lord affirms him. Whoever says them in his illness and then dies, the Fire will not touch him.

  7. On visiting someone ill

    لاَ بَأْسَ طَهُورٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ

    Lā baʾsa, ṭahūrun in shāʾa-llāh.

    No harm — a purification, if Allah wills.

    What he ﷺ said whenever he visited someone who was ill.

  8. An expiation and a purification

    كَفَّارَةٌ وَطَهُورٌ

    Kaffāratun wa ṭahūr.

    An expiation, and a purification.

    What he ﷺ said to a Bedouin with a fever.

    Ibn as-Sunnī, ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-l-Laylah 535
  9. Seven times, at the bedside

    ×7

    أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ

    Asʾalu-llāha-l-ʿaẓīm, rabba-l-ʿarshi-l-ʿaẓīm, an yashfiyak.

    I ask Allah the Mighty, Lord of the mighty Throne, to cure you.

    If his time has not come, Allah cures him of that illness.

  10. Take away the hurt

    اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ النَّاسِ أَذْهِبِ الْبَاسَ، اشْفِهِ وَأَنْتَ الشَّافِي، لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ شِفَاؤُكَ، شِفَاءً لاَ يُغَادِرُ سَقَمًا

    Allāhumma rabba-n-nās, adhhibi-l-baʾs, ishfihi wa anta-sh-shāfī, lā shifāʾa illā shifāʾuk, shifāʾan lā yughādiru saqamā.

    O Allah, Lord of mankind, take away the hurt; cure him, for You are the Healer; there is no cure but Your cure, a cure that leaves no illness behind.

    He ﷺ would wipe the sick person with his right hand as he said it.

  11. The ruqyah Jibrīl brought

    بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ أَرْقِيكَ مِنْ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ يُؤْذِيكَ مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ نَفْسٍ أَوْ عَيْنِ حَاسِدٍ اللَّهُ يَشْفِيكَ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ أَرْقِيكَ

    Bismi-llāhi arqīk, min kulli shayʾin yuʾdhīk, min sharri kulli nafsin aw ʿayni ḥāsid, Allāhu yashfīk, bismi-llāhi arqīk.

    In the name of Allah I recite over you, from everything that harms you, from the evil of every soul and every envious eye. Allah cures you; in the name of Allah I recite over you.

    What Jibrīl عليه السلام said over the Prophet ﷺ when he was ill.

  12. The soil of our land

    بِسْمِ اللَّهِ، تُرْبَةُ أَرْضِنَا. بِرِيقَةِ بَعْضِنَا، يُشْفَى سَقِيمُنَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّنَا

    Bismi-llāh. Turbatu arḍinā, bi-rīqati baʿḍinā, yushfā saqīmunā bi-idhni rabbinā.

    In the name of Allah. The soil of our land, with the spittle of some of us, cures our sick by the leave of our Lord.

    He ﷺ would touch his finger with his saliva to the ground, then to the sore, and say this.

  13. Heal Your servant

    اللَّهُمَّ اشْفِ عَبْدَكَ يَنْكَأُ لَكَ عَدُوًّا أَوْ يَمْشِي لَكَ إِلَى جَنَازَةٍ

    Allāhumma-shfi ʿabdaka yankaʾu laka ʿaduwwan aw yamshī laka ilā janāzah.

    O Allah, heal Your servant, that he may wound an enemy for You or walk for You to a funeral.

  14. Give him well-being

    اللَّهُمَّ عَافِهِ أَوِ اشْفِهِ

    Allāhumma ʿāfihi — aw: ishfih.

    O Allah, give him well-being — or: cure him.

    What he ﷺ said over Sayyidunā ʿAlī when he was ill; a narrator was unsure which of the two words he said. ʿAlī never had that pain again.

  15. Ask the sick to pray for you

    When you visit someone who is ill, ask them to pray for you — their prayer is like the prayer of the angels.

  16. For fever and every pain

    بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الْكَبِيرِ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ عِرْقٍ نَعَّارٍ وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَرِّ النَّارِ

    Bismi-llāhi-l-kabīr. Aʿūdhu billāhi-l-ʿaẓīmi min sharri kulli ʿirqin naʿʿār, wa min sharri ḥarri-n-nār.

    In the name of Allah, the Great. I take refuge in Allah, the Mighty, from the evil of every gushing vein, and from the evil of the heat of the Fire.

  17. On a boil or blister

    اللَّهُمَّ مُصَغِّرَ الْكَبِيرِ، وَمُكَبِّرَ الصَّغِيرِ، صَغِّرْ مَا بِي

    Allāhumma muṣaghghira-l-kabīr, wa mukabbira-ṣ-ṣaghīr, ṣaghghir mā bī.

    O Allah, who makes the great small and the small great, make small what I have.

    Ibn as-Sunnī, ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-l-Laylah 635
  18. The end of al-Muʾminūn, over the afflicted

    Qur’an

    ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

    Then did you think that We created you uselessly and that to Us you would not be returned?" So exalted is Allah, the Sovereign, the Truth; there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne. And whoever invokes besides Allah another deity for which he has no proof - then his account is only with his Lord. Indeed, the disbelievers will not succeed. And, [O Muhammad], say, "My Lord, forgive and have mercy, and You are the best of the merciful. Al-Muʾminūn 23:115–118

    Ibn Masʿūd recited it into the ear of an afflicted man and he recovered. “Had a man of certainty recited it over a mountain, it would have moved.”

    Ibn as-Sunnī, ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-l-Laylah 631