The servant is not free from his times of trials and difficulties, so the best thing he can get out of it is for a Muslim to call upon his Lord and seek refuge in Him. God Almighty said: “And your Lord says, ‘Call upon Me, I will respond to you.’ Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell Why are they saved?},[1] By supplication, God relieves worries and gives relief. The cherub is a weapon for the believer, no weapon equals it in strength and faith, and according to the extent of the servant’s faith, his good thoughts, his hope in his Lord, and his certainty in Him, the answer to supplication will be, and in the hadith: (Supplication is worship), [2] Islamic law has given care to the oppressed, and the Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - has singled out the answer. Peace be upon him - supplications for the oppressed; Where he - peace and blessings be upon him - said: {Beware of the supplication of the oppressed, for it is carried on the clouds},[3][4] The following is a list of a group of supplications that a Muslim uses to help against injustice:
Prayers for the oppressed from the Qur’an and Sunnah
{There is no god but You, Glory be to You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers}. [Surat Al-Anbiya, verse: 87]
{I only complain of my affliction and my grief to God}. [Surat Yusuf, verse: 86]
{Our Lord, pour upon us patience and cause us to die as Muslims.} [Surat Al-A'raf, verse: 126]
{Our Lord, pour upon us patience, and make our feet firm, and grant us victory over the disbelieving people}. [Surat Al-Baqarah, verse: 250]
{Our Lord, do not hold us accountable if we forget or make a mistake. Our Lord, and do not place upon us a burden as You placed upon those before us. Our Lord, and do not burden us with what is due to us We cannot bear it. And pardon us and forgive us and have mercy on us. You are our master, so help us against the disbelieving people.} [Surat Al-Baqarah, verse: 286]
{Our Lord, forgive us our sins and our extravagance in our affairs, and make firm our feet, and grant us victory over the disbelieving people}. [Surat Al Imran, verse: 147]
(To Allah we belong, and to Him we shall return. O God, reward me for my affliction, and give me something better than it.) [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Al-Jami’, on the authority of Umm Salamah and Abu Salamah, page or number: 5764, authentic hadith.]
(O God, I complain to You about the weakness of my strength and my humiliation towards people. You are the Most Merciful of those who are merciful. You are the Most Merciful of those who are merciful. To whom do you entrust me to an enemy who frowns upon me or to a relative whom my affairs have ruled over? If You are not angry with me, then I do not care except that Your well-being is more expansive for me. I seek refuge in Your Face, to whom the darknesses have shone and the affairs of this world and the hereafter have been made right for him. May your wrath descend upon me or may your wrath descend upon me. Yours is my censure until you are satisfied. There is no power but in God.) [Narrated by Al-Haythami, in Majma’ al-Zawa’id, on the authority of Abdullah bin Jaafar bin Abi Talib, page or number: 6/38, a hadith in which Ibn Ishaq, who is a reliable narrator, and the rest of his men Trustworthy.]
(O God, You are the King. There is no god but You. You are my Lord and I am Your servant. I have wronged myself and confessed my sin, so forgive me all my sins. No one forgives sins except You. And guide me to the best of morals. No one can guide me to the best of them except You.) And turn away from me my bad morals, only bad morals will be turned away from me. You are Your Lord and Your Most Merciful, and all goodness is in Your Hands, and evil is not Yours. I am through You and to You, Blessed and Exalted are You. I ask Your forgiveness and I repent to You.) [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Al-Nasa’i, on the authority of Ali bin Abi Talib, page or number: 896, authentic hadith.]
(O God, I seek refuge in You from worry and sadness, inability and laziness, cowardice and miserliness, burden of debt, and the dominance of men). [Narrated by Al-Bukhari, in Sahih Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, page or number: 6369, authentic hadith.]
(O Ever-Living, O Ever-Living, by Your mercy I seek help. Reconcile all my affairs for me, and do not leave me to myself for the blink of an eye.) [Narrated by Al-Mundhiri, in At-Targhib wa-Tarheeb, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, page or number: 313, its chain of transmission is authentic.]
(O God, I ask You that I bear witness that You are God, there is no god but You, the One and Only, the Eternal, the One who neither begot nor was born, and there is no one equal to Him.) He said: I have asked God by the name by which if asked, He gives, and if called by, He answers. He said in it: He has asked God by His greatest name.) [Narrated by Shuaib Al-Arna’ut, in Takhrij Sunan Abi Dawud, on the authority of Buraydah bin Al-Hasib Al-Aslami, page or number: 1494, correct.]
(O Possessor of Glory and Honor). [Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi, in Sunan Al-Tirmidhi, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, page or number: 3525, strange and not preserved.]
(O Ever-Living, O Ever-Living, by Your mercy I seek help). [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Al-Jami’, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, page or number: 4777, authentic hadith.]
(There is no god but Allah, the Great, the Forbearing, there is no god but Allah, Lord of the heavens and the earth, and Lord of the Great Throne). [Narrated by Al-Bukhari, in Sahih Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Abdul bin Abbas, page or number: 6345, authentic hadith.]
(Allah is Allah, my Lord. I do not associate anything with Him.) [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Al-Jami’, on the authority of Aisha, page or number: 348, a good hadith.]
(O God, I am Your servant, the son of Your servant, and the son of Your female servant. My forelock is in Your hand. Your judgment continues in me. I am just in Your decree. I ask You by every name that is Yours by which You have named Yourself, or revealed it in Your Book, or taught it to any of Your creation, or reserved it in the knowledge of the unseen with You, to You make the Great Qur’an the spring of my heart, the healing of my chest, the relief of my sadness, and the removal of my anxiety and grief.) [Narrated by Al-San’ani, in Al-Insaf fi Haqiqat Al-Awliya’, on the authority of Abd bin Masoud, page or number: 102, authentic.]
(O God, I have wronged myself greatly, and no one can forgive sins except You, so grant me forgiveness from You, and have mercy on me. Indeed, You are the Forgiving, the Merciful). [Narrated by Al-Bukhari, in Sahih Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, page or number: 6326, authentic hadith.]
(O God, help us, O God, help us, O God, help us). [Narrated by Al-Bukhari, in Sahih Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, page or number: 1014, authentic hadith.]
(O God, save the oppressed among the believers). [Narrated by Al-Bukhari, in Sahih Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, page or number: 3386, authentic hadith.]
(O God, with Your knowledge of the unseen and Your ability to create, grant me life as long as life is good for me, and cause me to die if death is good for me.) [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sharh al-Tahawiyyah, on the authority of Ammar bin Yasser, page or number: 143, authentic hadith.]
(O God, put light in my heart, light in my sight, light in my hearing, light on my right, light on my left, light above me, light beneath me, light in front of me, light behind me, and make light for me on the day I meet you.) [Narrated by Shuaib Al-Arnaout, in Takhreej Zad Al-Ma’ad, on the authority of Abdullah bin Abbas, page or number: 1/325, authentic hadith.]
(O God, I seek refuge in You from incapacity, laziness, cowardice, miserliness, senility, the torment of the grave, and the temptation of the Antichrist. O God, grant my soul its piety, and purify it. You are better than those who purify it. You are its guardian and master. O God, I seek refuge in You from knowledge that is not beneficial, and from a heart that does not submit, and from A soul that is not satisfied, and a supplication that is not answered.) [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Al-Jami’, on the authority of Zaid bin Arqam, page or number: 1286, authentic hadith.]
Various prayers for the oppressed
“O God, I ask you that you are the one God, the eternal, who did not give birth and was not born, and there is no one equal to him, and he did not take a companion or a son, and I ask you, O God, in your greatest name by which if you are asked you give, and if you are called by it you answer, and if you ask for mercy by it you have mercy, and if you are asked for relief Through Him You have been relieved, O Most Merciful of the Merciful, O Owner of the Day of Judgment, You are the One we worship and You are the One we seek help from, You are the Helper, there is no one to help but You, O Possessor of Glory and Honor, O God, O Possessor of Glory and Power, O Owner of dominion and the kingdom, O You who give dominion to whomever You wish, and take away dominion. Whomever You wish, and honor whomever You wish, and humiliate whomever You wish, O God, you have said and your word is the truth, call upon me and I will respond to you. O God, we have called upon you as you commanded us, so respond to us as you promised us, O the most generous of those who are asked, and O the most generous of those who give, and God is sufficient for us and He is the best disposer of affairs. My Lord, choose for me and Give me a choice, for what is best is what you have chosen for me. O God, O Master of every difficulty, manage my affairs, O Generous One.”
Oh God, you hear my words, you see my place, you know my secrets and my public affairs, and nothing of my affairs is hidden from you, and I am the wretched, the poor, the one seeking help, the fearful and compassionate one, the one who confesses his sin to you. I ask you the question of a poor person, and I ask you the supplication of a humiliated sinner, and I pray to you as the fearful and blind person prays. He whose neck submits to you, whose body submits to you, and whose nose is in spite of you.
O God, O Hearer of sound, O One who precedes death, O One who covers the bones with flesh after death, O One who answered Noah when he called out to him, removed the distress from Job in his affliction, heard Jacob in his complaint, restored Joseph and his brother to him, and by His mercy turned away seeing, and is not dear to You, and is not It is difficult for You to help me and relieve my anxiety. Glory be to You, there is no god but You, O Lord of Majesty and Honor. O Lord, just as You secured Yunus in the belly of the whale, and preserved Moses in the ship and the coffin, it is not difficult for You to grant me my request. Glory be to You, there is no god but You, O Lord of Glory and Honor. O Lord, O Creator of the heavens and the earth, night and day, the sun and the moon, the stars and planets, trees and animals, water and earth, O Creator of everything, O You who taught man what he did not know, and raised the heavens without any pillars that we can see, it is not difficult for You and it is not difficult for You to do so. You honor me, Glory be to You, there is no god but You, O Possessor of majesty and honor. O God, I am Your humble, poor, poor servant. I prostrated to Your great face in supplication, supplication, hope, certainty, recognition, and belief, that You are God alone, with no partner, to You belongs dominion and to You is praise, in Your hand is all good, and You He is powerful over all things.”
“O God, You are more deserving of a mention, more deserving of a servant, more supportive of those who seek, more compassionate than those who have kings, more generous than those who are asked, and more generous than those who give. You are the king, you have no partner, and no one is equal to you. Everything is perishing except for your face. You will not be obeyed except with your permission, and You are disobeyed except with your knowledge, you are obeyed and thanked, and you are disobeyed and you are forgiven. You are the closest martyr and the closest protector. You have spared souls, you have taken hold of the forelocks, you have abrogated the traces, and you have written the deadlines. Hearts are open to you, and the secret is open to you. What is permissible is what you make permissible, what is forbidden is what you prohibit, and religion is what is evil Atat, and the matter What You have decreed, and the creation is Your creation, and the servants are Your servants, and You are God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. We ask You, by Your incomparable glory, and by Your light with which the heavens and the earth shine, to guide our hearts, to cover our faults, to reveal our distress, to set right our children, to fulfill our desires, and to make piety our increase.” .
“O God, by Your most beautiful names and Your highest attributes, we ask You to repent to us in such a way that You will never be angry with us after that. O God, O Merciful of the weakness of the oppressed, and O He who restores the brokenness of the broken, O He who answers the prayers of the needy, we ask You to rectify our conditions. O God, do not return us disappointed after our repentance, nor from Your mercy.” expelled, and accept from us, for You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.”
“My Lord, my condition is not hidden from You, and my weakness stays with me and does not leave me, and my matter is not in my hands but in your hands. I came to you stripped of any strength and lacking your help and assistance, so grant me victory, O God.”
“O God, I beseech You in Your One Name, the Single and Eternal, and in Your Great Name, relieve me of what I have been in and have become, so that my thoughts and delusions are not clouded by the dust of fear of anyone other than You, and I am not distracted by the effect of hope from anyone other than You. Reward me, reward me, reward me, O God, O God, O Revealer.” O one who responds to the prayer of the oppressed, and one who, when he wants something, says to it: Be and it is, O Lord, O Lord, sins and transgressions have surrounded me, and I cannot find mercy and care from anyone but You, so provide me with them.
“O God, protect me from what concerns me and what I do not care about. O God, provide me with piety, forgive me my sins, and direct me to goodness wherever I turn. O God, ease me into ease and spare me hardship. O God, make for me from everything that concerns me and distresses me, whether in the affairs of this world or the hereafter, a relief and a way out, and provide me with a way out.” I do not expect it. Forgive me for my sins, and establish your hope in my heart, and cut it off from anyone but you, so that I do not hope for anyone but you, O One, who is satisfied with all of His creation, and none of His creation is satisfied with Him, O One, who has no hope cut off except from You.
“O Relief of those seeking help, O Helper of those seeking refuge, O Savior of the drowning, and O Rescuer of the perishing, to You I complained of my situation, and to You I begged, humbled myself, and cried before your hands, and my situation is not hidden from you, O Lord of the Worlds.”
O Most Generous of the Generous, O God, have mercy on me and have mercy on all the sinners from the nation of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. You are capable of all things. O God, respond to us as you responded to them with your mercy, and hasten relief from us with your goodness and generosity, and repel from us those who wronged us with your power, your presence, and your generosity, O Most Merciful of the Merciful. Indeed, You are capable of doing what You will, O Lord of the Worlds.”