(Our Allah -azwj ...
(Our Allah -azwj , Help us to) refrain (stay away from sins) from prohibited matters with virtuous words, accepted efforts, high degree deeds, and accepted prayers; do not allow anything to come between us and any such matters in the form of incidents, illnesses, anxieties, and sadness through Your -azwj Mercy, Our most Merciful and most Beneficent.” [11] Supplications for relieving sadness and depression: الأمالي للصدوق عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ نُوحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُثَنَّى بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَ مَا تَحْزَنُ أَ مَا تَهْتَمُّ أَ مَا تَأْلَمُ (The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – from his father, from Sa’ad, from Ayoub Bin Nuh, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Musanna Bin Al Waleed, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said to me: ‘Don’t you feel sad?
Don’t you feel worried? Don’t you feel pain? ’ قُلْتُ بَلَى وَ اللَّهِ I said, ‘Yes, by Allah -azwj !’ قَالَ فَإِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ مِنْكَ فَاذْكُرِ الْمَوْتَ وَ وَحْدَتَكَ فِي قَبْرِكَ وَ سَيَلَانَ عَيْنَيْكَ عَلَى خَدَّيْكَ وَ تَقَطُّعَ أَوْصَالِكَ وَ أَكْلَ الدُّودِ مِنْ لَحْمِكَ وَ بَلَاكَ وَ انْقِطَاعَكَ عَنِ الدُّنْيَا فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يَحُثُّكَ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ وَ يَرْدَعُكَ عَنْ كَثِيرٍ مِنَ الْحِرْصِ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا.
He -asws said: ‘When that were to happen from you, then remember the death, and your loneliness in your grave, and flow your eyes (tears) upon your cheeks, and cutting of your (limbs) connections, and the insects eating from your flesh, and your calamity, and your being cut off from the world, so that will urge you upon the (good) deeds, and deter you from many of the greed’s upon the world’’.
[12] وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع مَنْ وَجَدَ هَمّاً فَلَا يَدْرِي مَا هُوَ فَلْيَغْسِلْ رَأْسَهُ- And Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘O who feels worries and he does not know what it is (that worries him), let him wash his head ’. وَ قَالَ إِذَا تَوَالَتِ الْهُمُومُ فَعَلَيْكَ بِلَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ.
And he -asws said: ‘When the worries continue, upon you is with (saying), وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ بِلَا حَوْلَ ‘There is neither might nor strength except with Allah -azwj ’’. [13] الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سَعْدَانَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا صَلَّيْتَ الْمَغْرِبَ فَأَمِرَّ يَدَكَ عَلَى جَبْهَتِكَ وَ قُلْ.
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