The Best Du’as to read for the Ones We Lost.

• Allahum-maghfir lahu warhamhu, wa 'aafihi, wa'fu 'anhu, wa 'akrim nuzulahu, wa wassi' mudkhalahu, waghsilhu bilmaa'i wath-thalji wa-lbaradi, wa naqqihi minal-khataayaa kamaa naqqaytath-thawbal-'abyadha minad-danasi.

   “Oh Allah, forgive him and have mercy on him and give him strength and pardon him. Be generous to him and cause his entrance to be wide and wash him with water and snow and hail. Cleanse him of his transgressions as white cloth is cleansed of stains.”

• Allahum-maghfir lihayyinaa, wa mayyitinaa, wa shaahidinaa, wa ghaa'ibinaa, wa sagheerinaa wa kabeerinaa, wa thakarinaa wa 'unthaanaa. Allahumma man 'ahyaytahu minnaa fa'ahyihi 'alal-'Islaami, wa man tawaffaytahu minnaa fatawaffahu 'alal-'eemaani, Allahumma laa tahrimnaa 'ajrahu wa laa tudhillanaa ba'dahu.

  “Oh Allah, forgive our living and our dead, those present and those absent, our young and our old, our males and our females. O Allah, whom among us You keep alive, then let such a life be upon Islam, and whom among us You take unto Yourself, then let such a death be upon faith. O Allah, do not deprive us of his reward and do not let us stray after him.”

  • Allahumma abduk wabnu amatik ihtaaja ila rahmatik wa anta ghaniyyun ‘an ‘adhaabih, in kaana muhsinan fazid fee hasanaatih, wa in kaana musee-an, fatajaawaz ‘anhu.

  “Oh Allah, this son of a servant of yours is now in need of Your mercy and You are not in need of punishing that person. If he was pious then increase his rewards, and if he was a transgressor then pardon him.”

While the deceased are in need of our duas, we are also in need of du’as for our grieving hearts. The Prophet (SAW) left us with some amazingly comprehensive du’as for this purpose as well.

Dua for Anxiety and Sorrow:

Allahumma inni a’udhu bika minal-hammi wal-Ḥuzni wal-‘ajazi wal-kasli wal-bukhli wal-jubni wa ḍala’id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijal.

“O Allah, I take refuge in You from anxiety and sorrow, weakness and laziness, miserliness and cowardice, the burden of debts and from being overpowered by men.”

Dua for Grief and Sorrow:

Allaahumma innee abduk (for females: amatuk) wa-bnu abdik, naaSiyaatee bi-yadik, maaDin fiyya hukmuk), ‘Adlun fiyya qaDaa-uk, as’aluka bikullismin huwa laka sammayta bihi nafsak, aw ‘Allamtahu aHadam-minkhalaqik, aw-anzaltahu fee kitaabik, aw-ista’tharta, bihi fee ‘ilmil-ghaybi ‘indak, an taj’al-alquraana rabee’a qalbee, wa nuura SaDri, wa-jilaa’a Huznee, wa dhahaaba hammee.

“O Allah, I am your slave, the son of your slave. My forelock is in Your Hand. Your judgment of me is inescapable. Your trial of me is just. I am invoking You by all the names that You call Yourself, that You have taught to anyone in Your creation, that You have mentioned in Your Book, or that You have kept unknown. Let the Qur’an be delight of my heart, the light of my chest, the remover of my sadness and the remover of my distress.”

Whoever was afflicted with grief and distress and says the above duas, Allah, the Exalted and Ever-Majestic, will remove his grief and will change his sorrow into happiness.” (Musnad Ahmad)

It was said, “O Messenger of Allah! (Do) we have to learn these words?” He said, “Yes, whoever hears them should learn them.”

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By Human Appeal

Manchester, United Kingdom