Chapter 92

What to say when afflicted with loneliness

Remembrance 1
WE RELATE FROM Ibn as-Sunnī from Walīd ibn Walīd Honorific symbol who said: “Messenger of Allah, I suffer from loneliness.” He Honorific symbol said: “When you go to bed, say: I seek protection in the perfect words of Allah from His wrath and His punishment, the evil of His servants, and the suggestions of the shayṭāns and from them appearing to me, [1].for then it will not harm you” (or, “it will not approach you”).
Arabic text from the source edition
A‘ūdhu bi-kalimāti-llāhi-t-tāmmāti min ghaḍabihi wa ‘iqābihi wa sharri ‘ibādih, wa min hamazāti-sh-shayāṭīn, wa an yaḥḍurūn.
Remembrance 2
We relate in Ibn as-Sunnī from al-Barā’ ibn ‘Āzib Honorific symbol, that a man came to the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol and complained of loneliness. He Honorific symbol said : “Make sure you say in abundance: Peerless is the King, the Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit (Rūḥ). You have made the heavens and the earth majestic with might, the Jabarūt (Supraformal Realm). The man said this and the loneliness disappeared”.
Arabic text from the source edition
Subḥāna-l-Maliki-l-Quddūs, Rabbi-l-malā’ikati wa-r-rūḥ, jallalta-s-samāwāti wa-l-arḍa bi-l-‘izzati wa-l-Jabarūt.

References

[1] Ibn as-Sunnī (643).