THE DISTRESSERAdh Dhaar is the one who causes Distress. We found in the previous article, An Nafee, that it is Allah who creates both the favourable and unfavourable conditions for profit and loss respectively. Similarly, it is Allah who causes Distress since everything in heavens and earth belong to Him as shown in the following reference from the Quran:
Why does Allah the most Merciful cause distress to His creation? Allah causes us distress in order to test our faith. Allah causes us distress in order to test our patience. Allah causes us distress in order to separate the true believer from the one who just performs lip service. Allah causes us distress in order to make us strong so that no matter what happens, we will not leave His religion. If we leave His religion then we are the ones that will be at a loss and in distress.
However, there is a very subtle lesson to be learnt. If we do not suffer distress, we cannot appreciate comfort. If we do not suffer distress, we will become weak. If we become weak, we will perish at the slightest distress or infection.
It is better to bear the distress in this world. The distress that will be caused to the disbelievers in the next world will be unbearable. At least in this world we have the opportunity to turn towards our Rabb and ask Him to remove our distress. In the next world, there is no such avenue open to us for relief from distress.
But as we are told, in the above reference (16:54) When He removes the distress from you behold, some of you attribute partners to their Rabb. How do we associate partners to our Rabb?
As it was stated in the article on An Nafee, it is Allah who creates favourable conditions for profit and it is Allah who creates unfavourable conditions for a loss. Likewise, no person, no jinn, no angel, no star, no planet can cause distress. Each of the latter act according to the will of Allah. For ordinary people, it appears that the distress is caused by a person, jinn, angel, star or planet. In reality they are all obeying what Allah has ordained for them. Therefore, relief can only come from Allah, when we turn to Him for help.
Yet when we are relieved of our distress by Allah, some of us attribute the relief to medicine, or person, or favourable stars etc. Who created the plants and herbs for the medicine? Allah !
Who created the person who came to our assistance? Allah! Who created favourable stars? Allah! We must start with the words Al Hamdu Lillah - All Praise is for Allah we feel relieved by this medicine. Al Hamdu Lillah, Allah sent such a person for my assistance.
From this Hadees we learn that whenever a believer is inflicted with distress or hurt or sadness or sorrow or disease or fatigue, Allah removes some of the sins of a believer. Allah is so generous that He is looking for an excuse to forgive us our sins. For that we have to pay a small price. That small price is in the form of distress or hurt etc. But, if Allah is so generous, why does He not forgive our sins without causing us distress?
The answer is quite simple.
It is human nature to devalue anything that is given for free.
It is human nature not to appreciate something until it is lost.
For example, good health is a gift from Allah. We cannot appreciate
good health unless we have experienced illness. However, we must
be patient under such circumstances in order to be forgiven some
of our sins and at the same time we must be thankful to Allah
in all conditions. We must praise Allah in health as well as in
sickness. It is Allah who brings about the distress and it is
only Allah who can relieve us from that distress. How do we ask
Allah to relieve us from distress? One of the best Dua or prayer
in times of distress is that of Ayub (
):
From the above reference
we can see and appreciate how Allah relieves a person from distress.
First we must call upon Allah, our Rabb. And then we must praise
Him. In this example Ayub () called
his Rabb and said to his Rabb, "Truly distress has seized
me and You are Most Merciful of those that are merciful."
All forms of distress 
are from Allah.
And only Allah 
our Rabb 
- Arham ur Rahimeen can relieve us from that
distress.
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The person who reads Ya Dhaar 1111 times everyday, Allah will protect that person from visible and invisible forms of distress, and that person will achieve nearness to his / her Rabb, Insha Allah.
Remember to recite any
Darood of your choice 11 times before and after the above Zikr
and send the Hadiya (reward) for the Darood to Allah's Rasool,
our Master, Sayyidina Muhammad
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