Being wronged
Injustice, betrayal, harm from others
74 verified supplications · 49 written out in full
اتَّقِ دَعْوَةَ الْمَظْلُومِ، فَإِنَّهَا لَيْسَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ اللَّهِ حِجَابٌ
When someone has wronged you
The Prophet ﷺ warned: between the supplication of the wronged and Allah
وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَـٰفِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ ۚ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ …
When the one who wronged you walked away from it
A warning to anyone who thinks getting away with it is the same as getti
اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِقَوْمِي فَإِنَّهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ
When you could ask for them to be punished
Said by the Prophet ﷺ at Ṭā'if, bleeding, after the town had driven him
اللَّهُمَّ مُنْزِلَ الْكِتَابِ، سَرِيعَ الْحِسَابِ، اهْزِمِ الأَحْزَابَ، اهْزِمْهُمْ …
When people have banded together against you
Said on the day the tribes gathered around Madīnah to finish it.
وَضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا لِّلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱمْرَأَتَ فِرْعَوْنَ إِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ٱبْنِ …
When home is not safe
The prayer of a woman married to Pharaoh, asking to be built a house som
قُلِ ٱللَّهُمَّ مَـٰلِكَ ٱلْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِى ٱلْمُلْكَ مَن تَشَآءُ وَتَنزِعُ ٱلْمُلْكَ مِمَّن …
When someone else holds all the power
Sovereignty is given and taken by One, and honour with it.
وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُقَـٰتِلُونَ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَٱلْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ ٱلرِّجَالِ …
When you are stuck somewhere you need to leave
The Qur'an quotes the oppressed asking to be taken out, and to be sent s
فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا۟ فَقُلْ حَسْبِىَ ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ ۖ …
When you have been let down by people
What the Prophet ﷺ was told to say if they turned away.
مَآ أَصَابَ مِن مُّصِيبَةٍ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ وَمَن يُؤْمِنۢ بِٱللَّهِ يَهْدِ …
When something happens that you cannot make sense of
What is promised to the one who believes when it lands on him.
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ سُوٓءًا أَوْ يَظْلِمْ نَفْسَهُۥ ثُمَّ يَسْتَغْفِرِ ٱللَّهَ يَجِدِ ٱللَّهَ …
After you have wronged someone or yourself
A door left open in the middle of a warning.
قَدِ ٱفْتَرَيْنَا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا إِنْ عُدْنَا فِى مِلَّتِكُم بَعْدَ إِذْ نَجَّىٰنَا …
When a dispute cannot be resolved by talking
Shuʿayb ﷺ said this when his people would not hear him.
فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَآئِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ ۖ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِى مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ
Getting away from people who mean you harm
Mūsā ﷺ said it running from Egypt with nothing.
قَالَ رَبِّ ٱنصُرْنِى عَلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ
When the wrong thing is winning
Lūṭ ﷺ, alone in a town that had turned entirely.
رَبَّنَآ إِنَّكَ جَامِعُ ٱلنَّاسِ لِيَوْمٍ لَّا رَيْبَ فِيهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُخْلِفُ …
When you will not get justice in this life
A statement about a day when everyone is brought together, said as a pra
وَلَا يَأْتَلِ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْفَضْلِ مِنكُمْ وَٱلسَّعَةِ أَن يُؤْتُوٓا۟ أُو۟لِى ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ …
Being asked to forgive someone who does not deserve it
Revealed when Abū Bakr swore to stop supporting a relative who had sland
أَحَسِبَ ٱلنَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوٓا۟ أَن يَقُولُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ وَلَقَدْ …
When faith has turned out to be harder than expected
A question put at the start of a sūrah.
وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَـٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ وَأَنَّ سَعْيَهُۥ سَوْفَ يُرَىٰ ثُمَّ يُجْزَىٰهُ …
When you are comparing your results to someone else's
What a person is credited with, stated plainly.
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَـٰكُمْ شُعُوبًا …
When you have been looked down on
The verse gives the only measure that counts, after listing the ones tha
وَلَا تَتَمَنَّوْا۟ مَا فَضَّلَ ٱللَّهُ بِهِۦ بَعْضَكُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ ۚ لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌ …
When you want what someone else was given
An instruction about wishing, followed by what to do instead.
وَجَآءُو عَلَىٰ قَمِيصِهِۦ بِدَمٍ كَذِبٍ ۚ قَالَ بَلْ سَوَّلَتْ لَكُمْ أَنفُسُكُمْ أَمْرًا ۖ …
Patience without complaint to people
Yaʿqūb ﷺ, shown a shirt and told a lie, chose two words.
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ
When you thought life was supposed to be easier
A single verse about the design.
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ كُونُوا۟ قَوَّٰمِينَ لِلَّهِ شُهَدَآءَ بِٱلْقِسْطِ ۖ وَلَا …
Being fair to someone you dislike
The verse names the temptation before forbidding it.
أَهُمْ يَقْسِمُونَ رَحْمَتَ رَبِّكَ ۚ نَحْنُ قَسَمْنَا بَيْنَهُم مَّعِيشَتَهُمْ فِى …
When someone else got what you were qualified for
A statement about who is doing the distributing.
وَلَمَن صَبَرَ وَغَفَرَ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ لَمِنْ عَزْمِ ٱلْأُمُورِ
Two things that take real resolve
A short verse about what following an injury.
اللَّهُمَّ الْعَنْ فُلاَنًا وَفُلاَنًا وَفُلاَنًا
A prayer he made, and then was told to stop
He named individuals in the prayer after rising from the bow, until a ve
مَنْ رَأَى مِنْكُمْ مُنْكَرًا فَلْيُغَيِّرْهُ بِيَدِهِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَبِلِسَانِهِ …
When you see something wrong happening
Three levels, in descending order of capacity.
لاَ تُقْبَلُ صَلاَةٌ بِغَيْرِ طُهُورٍ وَلاَ صَدَقَةٌ مِنْ غُلُولٍ
Two things that are never accepted
Stated as a pair, and the second one is about money.
وَمَا يُلَقَّىٰهَآ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ صَبَرُوا۟ وَمَا يُلَقَّىٰهَآ إِلَّا ذُو حَظٍّ عَظِيمٍ
Two responses to being wronged
Named together as requiring the same resolve.
وَعَدَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ …
When a community is under pressure
A promise made to people who were frightened at the time.
قُلْ يَـٰعِبَادِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ ۚ لِلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا۟ فِى …
How the patient are paid
The only reward in the Qur'an given without a stated limit.
هَاجَرَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بِسَارَةَ، دَخَلَ بِهَا قَرْيَةً فِيهَا مَلِكٌ مِنَ الْمُلُوكِ أَوْ …
Sarah's prayer when a tyrant reached for her
Ibrāhīm was told to say she was his sister, and the king sent for her.
وَنَضَعُ ٱلْمَوَٰزِينَ ٱلْقِسْطَ لِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ فَلَا تُظْلَمُ نَفْسٌ شَيْـًٔا ۖ وَإِن …
What will be placed and how precisely
A promise about accounting made in the plainest terms.
إِنَّمَا بَقَاؤُكُمْ فِيمَا سَلَفَ قَبْلَكُمْ مِنَ الأُمَمِ، كَمَا بَيْنَ صَلاَةِ الْعَصْرِ …
A complaint made by earlier generations
Those who came before will object that the later ones did less.
اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْكَ بِأَبِي جَهْلِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ وَعُتْبَةَ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ وَشَيْبَةَ بْنِ …
Naming an oppressor in prayer while he was praying
Filth had been placed on his back while he prostrated.
اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ عَبْدُكَ هَذَا كَاذِبًا، قَامَ رِيَاءً وَسُمْعَةً فَأَطِلْ عُمْرَهُ
A judge prayed against by people he had ruled over
Saʿd was accused of not praying properly and answered with this.
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْجِ الْوَلِيدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ، وَسَلَمَةَ بْنَ هِشَامٍ، وَعَيَّاشَ بْنَ أَبِي …
Naming people who were being held and beaten
He named them one by one after rising from the bow.
إِذَا أَنْتَ بَايَعْتَ فَقُلْ لاَ خِلاَبَةَ
What the Prophet gave a man who kept being cheated
He had a head injury that had damaged his speech, and he would not stop
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أُحَرِّجُ حَقَّ الضَّعِيفَيْنِ الْيَتِيمِ وَالْمَرْأَةِ
The two whose rights he warned about by name
He put it as a formal warning, not advice.
يَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ هَذَا قَتَلَنِي حَتَّى يُدْنِيَهُ مِنَ الْعَرْشِ
What the murdered person carries on that Day
Ibn Abbas was asked about repentance afterwards, and read a verse instea
رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِقَوْمِي فَإِنَّهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ
A prophet wiping blood off his face
Ibn Masʿud said he could still picture him telling it.
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَتَّخِذُ عِنْدَكَ عَهْدًا لَنْ تُخْلِفَنِيهِ فَإِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ …
The promise he took out for people he might wrong
He began by saying what he is.
فَإِذَا رَأَيْتَهَا فَقُلْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ أَجِيبِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ
Abu Ayyub and the thing taking his dates
It kept coming back to the same store room.
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْجِ عَيَّاشَ بْنَ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ، وَسَلَمَةَ بْنَ هِشَامٍ، وَالْوَلِيدَ بْنَ …
Three names, then everyone with no name
He was saying it inside the prayer itself.
رَبِّ أَعِنِّي وَلاَ تُعِنْ عَلَىَّ وَانْصُرْنِي وَلاَ تَنْصُرْ عَلَىَّ وَامْكُرْ لِي وَلاَ …
Six pairs, each one the same request reversed
Every clause is followed by its own negative.
أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْفَقْرِ وَالْقِلَّةِ وَالذِّلَّةِ وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ أَنْ أَظْلِمَ أَوْ …
Three states, and then both sides of one act
He asked not to be on either end of it.
أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْجُوعِ فَإِنَّهُ بِئْسَ الضَّجِيعُ وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْخِيَانَةِ …
Two things he described rather than just named
Hunger and betrayal, each given a metaphor.
يَا سَعْدُ، إِنِّي لأُعْطِي الرَّجُلَ وَغَيْرُهُ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ مِنْهُ، خَشْيَةَ أَنْ …
Why he gave to the person he thought less of
Saʿd pressed him about it three times.
مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَشْتَرِطُونَ شُرُوطًا لَيْسَتْ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ، مَنِ اشْتَرَطَ …
What he said about a hundred conditions
Someone had tried to attach terms to a sale.
لَيْسَ الْوَاصِلُ بِالْمُكَافِئِ، وَلَكِنِ الْوَاصِلُ الَّذِي إِذَا قَطَعَتْ رَحِمُهُ وَصَلَهَا
Who actually counts as maintaining ties
It rules out the obvious case.
From the wider collections
Each of these passed the same grading rule. They are shown with the source narration rather than a written-out translation.
رَبَّنَا أَعْطَيْتَ هَؤُلاَءِ قِيرَاطَيْنِ قِيرَاطَيْنِ، وَأَعْطَيْتَنَا قِيرَاطًا قِيرَاطًا …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 557 · Times of the Prayers
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي ظُلْمًا كَثِيرًا ��َلاَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 834 · Call to Prayers (Adhaan)
لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوا لَكَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1496 · Obligatory Charity Tax (Zakat)
لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ، وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، فَإِنْ هُمْ طَاعُوا لَكَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4347 · Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maghaazi)
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي ظُلْمًا كَثِيرًا، وَلاَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6326 · Invocations
رَبَّنَا هَؤُلاَءِ أَقَلُّ عَمَلاً وَأَكْثَرُ أَجْرًا. قَالَ هَلْ ظَلَمْتُكُمْ مِنْ أَجْرِكُمْ …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 7467 · Oneness, Uniqueness of Allah (Tawheed)
رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1812 · The Book of Prayer - Travellers
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي ظُلْمًا كَبِيرًا - وَقَالَ قُتَيْبَةُ كَثِيرًا - وَلاَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 6869 · The Book Pertaining to the Remembrance of Allah, Supplication, Repentanc
يَا رَبِّ أَلَمْ تُجِرْنِي مِنَ الظُّلْمِ قَالَ يَقُولُ بَلَى . قَالَ فَيَقُولُ فَإِنِّي لاَ …
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 7439 · The Book of Zuhd and Softening of Hearts
رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا أَوَّلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ …
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 760 · Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)
لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوكَ لِذَلِكَ …
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1584 · Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)
لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوكَ بِذَلِكَ …
Sunan an-Nasā'ī 2435 · The Book of Zakah
لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوكَ فَأَعْلِمْهُمْ أَنَّ …
Sunan an-Nasā'ī 2522 · The Book of Zakah
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ وَعْثَاءِ السَّفَرِ وَكَآبَةِ الْمُنْقَلَبِ وَالْحَوْرِ …
Sunan an-Nasā'ī 5499 · The Book of Seeking Refuge with Allah
أُعِيذُكَ بِاللَّهِ يَا كَعْبُ بْنَ عُجْرَةَ مِنْ أُمَرَاءَ يَكُونُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِي فَمَنْ …
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 614 · The Book on Traveling
يَا رَبِّ . فَيَقُولُ أَفَلَكَ عُذْرٌ فَيَقُولُ لاَ يَا رَبِّ . فَيَقُولُ بَلَى إِنَّ لَكَ …
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 2639 · The Book on Faith
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللَّهِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّا نَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ أَنْ نَزِلَّ أَوْ …
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 3427 · Chapters on Supplication
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ الصَّاحِبُ فِي السَّفَرِ وَالْخَلِيفَةُ فِي الأَهْلِ اللَّهُمَّ اصْحَبْنَا …
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 3439 · Chapters on Supplication
يَا رَبِّ فَيَقُولُ أَظَلَمَتْكَ كَتَبَتِي الْحَافِظُونَ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ أَلَكَ عُذْرٌ أَلَكَ …
Sunan Ibn Mājah 4300 · Zuhd
مَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ مَظْلَمَةٌ لأَحَدٍ مِنْ عِرْضِهِ أَوْ شَىْءٍ فَلْيَتَحَلَّلْهُ مِنْهُ …
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 2449 · Oppressions
اتَّقُوا الظُّلْمَ فَإِنَّ الظُّلْمَ ظُلُمَاتٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَاتَّقُوا الشُّحَّ فَإِنَّ …
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 6576 · The Book of Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of K
فَلاَ بَأْسَ وَلْيَنْصُرِ الرَّجُلُ أَخَاهُ ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا إِنْ كَانَ ظَالِمًا …
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 6582 · The Book of Virtue, Enjoining Good Manners, and Joining of the Ties of K
الْمُسْتَبَّانِ مَا قَالاَ فَعَلَى الْبَادِي مِنْهُمَا مَا لَمْ يَعْتَدِ الْمَظْلُومُ
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 4894 · General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
ثَلاَثُ دَعَوَاتٍ مُسْتَجَابَاتٌ لاَ شَكَّ فِيهِنَّ دَعْوَةُ الْمَظْلُومِ وَدَعْوَةُ …
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 1905 · Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives
ثَلاَثُ دَعَوَاتٍ يُسْتَجَابُ لَهُنَّ لاَ شَكَّ فِيهِنَّ دَعْوَةُ الْمَظْلُومِ وَدَعْوَةُ …
Sunan Ibn Mājah 3862 · Supplication