❖ Consolation for the Bereaved: Patience and Recitation of إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون ❖
✍️ Written by: Imran Ayub Lahori
❀ It is Obligatory Upon the Relatives of the Deceased to Be Patient and Recite: إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون ❀
➊ Divine Command from the Qur’an:
وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ الْخَوْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَنْفُسِ وَالثَّمَرَاتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّـهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
[Al-Baqarah: 100–106]
“We shall certainly test you with something of fear and hunger and loss of wealth, lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to those who remain patient—those who, when afflicted with calamity, say: Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rājiʿūn (Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we shall return).”
➋ Prophetic Teaching on Patience at the Time of Loss:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, upon seeing a woman crying near a grave, said:
“اتقي الله واصبري“
“Fear Allah and be patient.”
And he also said:
“إنما الصبر عند الصدمة الأولى“
“Indeed, true patience is at the first strike of calamity.”
➤ [Bukhari: 1283, Kitab al-Jana’iz: Chapter on Visiting Graves; Muslim: 1534]
✔ Recommended Supplication Along with إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون:
اللهم أجرني في مصيبتي واخلف لي خيرًا منها
“O Allah! Reward me in my affliction and replace it for me with something better.”
➤ [Muslim: 1525, Kitab al-Jana’iz: Chapter on What to Say at the Time of Calamity]
