Illness & Healing

Annī massaniyaḍ-ḍurru wa Anta arḥamur-rāḥimīn.

Adversity has truly touched me, and You are the most merciful of the merciful.

Said by Prophet Ayyub ﷺ

[ Surah Al-Anbiyaa 21:83 ]

Qul aʿūdhu bi-Rabbil-falaq. Min sharri mā khalaq. Wa min sharri ghāsiqin idhā waqab. Wa min sharrin-naffāthāti fil-ʿuqad. Wa min sharri ḥāsidin idhā ḥasad.

Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak, from the evil of that which He created, and from the evil of darkness when it settles, and from the evil of the blowers in knots, and from the evil of an envier when he envies.

Recited three times morning and evening, before sleep, and as ruqyah. (Sunan Abi Dawud 5082)

[ Surah Al-Falaq 113:1-5 ]

Qul aʿūdhu bi-Rabbin-nās. Malikin-nās. Ilāhin-nās. Min sharril-waswāsil-khannās. Alladhī yuwaswisu fī ṣudūrin-nās. Minal-jinnati wan-nās.

Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind, the Sovereign of mankind, the God of mankind, from the evil of the retreating whisperer who whispers in the breasts of mankind, from among the jinn and mankind.

Recited three times morning and evening, before sleep, and as ruqyah. (Sunan Abi Dawud 5082)

[ Surah An-Naas 114:1-6 ]

Lā ba'sa ṭahūrun in shā Allāh.

Do not worry, it will be a purification (for you), Allah willing.

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani Fathul-Bari 10/118. Hisn al-Muslim 147 ]

As'alullāha ‘l-`Aẓīma Rabba ‘l-`Arshil-`Aẓīmi an yashfiyak.

I ask Almighty Allah, Lord of the Magnificent Throne, to make you well. (Recite seven times in Arabic .)

[ At-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 2/210 and Sahihul-Jami' As-Saghir 5/180. ]

When a man goes to visit his sick Muslim brother, he walks along a path of Paradise until he sits, and when he sits he is cloaked in mercy. If he comes in the morning, seventy thousand angels pray for him until evening, and if he comes in the evening, seventy thousand angels pray for him until morning.

[ Hisn al-Muslim 149 ]

Allāhumma’ghfir lī warḥamnī wa alḥiqnī bir-rafīqi ‘l-'A`alā.

O Allah, forgive me and have mercy upon me, and join me with the highest companions (in Paradise).

[ Al-Bukhari7/10, Muslim 4/1893. Hisn al-Muslim 150 ]

As he was dying, the Prophet (ﷺ) dipped his hands in water and wiped his face saying: Lā ilāha illallāh inna li ‘lmawti la’sakarāt.

There is none worthy of worship but Allah, surely death has agonies.

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 8/144. The Hadith also mention him using the Siivak (tooth stick). Hisn al-Muslim 151 ]

Lā ilāha illallāh wallāhu Akbar, lā ilāha illallāhu waḥdah, lā ilāha illallāh waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, lā ilāha illallāh lahu ‘l-mulku wa lahu ‘l-ḥamd, lā ilāha illallāh wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh.

There is none worthy of worship but Allah, Allah is the Most Great. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone, Who has no partner. There is none worthy of worship but Allah, His is the dominion and His is the praise. There is none worthy of worship but Allah, there is no power and no might but by Allah.

[ At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 3/152 and Sahih Ibn Majah 2/317. Hisn al-Muslim 152 ]

Put your hand on the place where you feel pain and say: Bismillāh (three times). Then say seven times: A`ūdhu billāhi wa qudratihi min sharri mā ajidu wa uḥādhir.

Put your hand on the place where you feel pain and say: With the Name of Allah (three times). Then say seven times: I seek refuge in Allah and in His Power from the evil of what I find and of what I guard against.

[ Muslim 4/1728. Hisn al-Muslim 243 ]