Prophetic Supplications: Relieving Distress or Grief

Relieving Distress or Grief

Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said: Whenever the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family) was afflicted by distress or grief, he would supplicate:

يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ يَا حَيّاً لاَ يَمُوتُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلّاَ أَنْتَ كَاشِفُ الْهَمِّ مُجِيبُ دَعْوَةِ الْمُضْطَرِّينَ أَسْأَلُكَ بِأَنَّ لَكَ الْحَمْدَ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلّاَ أَنْتَ الْمَنَّانُ بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ ذُو الْجَلاَلِ وَ الْإِكْرَامِ رَحْمَانُ الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ رَحِيمُهُمَا ارْحَمْنِي رَحْمَةً تُغْنِينِي بِهَا عَنْ رَحْمَةِ مَنْ سِوَاكَ يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ.

O the Ever-Living, O the Self-Subsisting, O the Living who never dies, there is no deity except You, the Remover of grief, the Responder to the supplication of the distressed, I ask You that to You belongs all praise, there is no god except You, the Bestower, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, the Possessor of Majesty and Honor, the Most Merciful of this world and the Hereafter and Merciful of Them Both, have mercy on me with a mercy that will make me independent of the mercy of anyone else other than You, O the Most Merciful of the merciful. 

Am’ali, Sheikh Tusi, 511