Duas to combat despair

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Dua 1

“Say, My servants, you who have transgressed against yourselves, do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Truly Allah forgives all wrong actions. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.” (Quran 39:53)

Dua 2

Oh God, I seek your protection from anxiety, sorrow, inability, laziness, cowardice, stinginess, overpowering debt and subjugation by fellow man. (Al-Bukhari Abu Dawud and others)

Dua 3

“So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief: Verily with every difficulty there is relief.” (Quran 94:5)

• Side note: Allah SWT said this twice for a reason so that way you never feel as if you have been abandoned.

Dua 4

يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ

(Yā Muqallibal-qulūb, thabbit qalbī `alā dīnik)

“O Changer of the hearts, make my heart firm upon Your religion” (Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3522 Book 48, Hadith 153)

Some Verses about Patience! 🙂

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient. (Quran 2:155)