Duas for ease and relief
Duas for hardship, distress and difficult times, asking Allah for ease and a way out.
Asking Allah for ease
O Allah, nothing is easy except what You make easy, and You make the difficult easy if You will.
Source: Sahih Ibn Hibban 974
The dua of Yunus in distress
There is no god but You. Glory be to You. Truly, I have been among those who wronged themselves.
Source: Qur’an, Al-Anbiya 21:87
Open my heart, ease my task
My Lord, expand my chest for me, and make my task easy for me.
Source: Qur’an, Ta-Ha 20:25–26
Ash-Sharh: with hardship comes ease
Did We not open your heart for you, and lift from you the burden that weighed down your back, and raise your renown? So truly, with hardship comes ease. Truly, with hardship comes ease. So when you are free, keep striving, and turn to your Lord with longing.
Source: Qur’an 94:1–8
Certainty that lightens hardship
O Allah, grant us reverence for You that keeps us from disobedience, obedience that brings us to Your Garden, and certainty that lightens the hardships of this world.
Source: Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi 3502 (supplication or remembrance excerpt)
A dua to lift sadness
O Allah, I am Your servant, son of Your servant, son of Your maidservant. My forelock is in Your hand, Your command over me is done, Your decree for me is just. I ask You by every name that is Yours, by which You named Yourself, or revealed in Your Book, or taught to any of Your creation, or kept hidden in the knowledge of the unseen with You, to make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the remover of my sadness and the release of my worry.
Source: Musnad Ahmad 3712
Calling on the Ever-Living
O Ever-Living, O Sustainer of all, in Your mercy I seek relief.
Source: Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi 3524
The plea of Ayyub
Hardship has touched me, and You are the most merciful of those who show mercy.
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