Among Muslims are those who live in their own countries amid harrowing turmoil, devastating wars, and severe affliction. Their enemy has overpowered them: blood has been shed among them, women have been widowed, children orphaned, and property plundered. They need prayers that Allah relieve their distress, dispel their anguish, subdue their enemy, and spread security and tranquility among them. It was the practice of the noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to offer the qunūt supplication in response to calamities befalling Muslims, praying for victory and deliverance for the Muslims and for the defeat and destruction of their enemy. It is reported in the two Sahīh collections from Abū Hurayra (may Allah be pleased with him): “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) offered qunūt in the Isha prayer for a month, saying in his qunūt, ‘O Allah, deliver al-Walīd ibn al-Walīd. O Allah, deliver Salama ibn Hishām. O Allah, deliver Ayyāsh ibn Abī Rabī'a. O Allah, deliver the oppressed believers. O Allah, bear down heavily upon Mudar. O Allah, inflict upon them years like the years of Joseph.’ Abū Hurayra said, ‘Then one morning he did not pray for them. I mentioned this to him, and he replied, “Do you not see that they have arrived?”’”1

It is also established in the Sahīh collection that Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) offered qunūt for a month, invoking Allah against Ri'l and Dhakwān and saying, ‘Usayya has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger.’”2

There was likewise the qunūt of Abū Bakr al-Siddīq (may Allah be pleased with him) when the Companions fought Musaylima the Liar, qunūt when fighting the People of the Book, and the qunūt of Umar ibn