– ʿāfinī (grant me well-being): bestow upon me safety and soundness—purity in my religion from sins and doubts; health in my body from illnesses and ailments; and clarity in my mind, free from feeblemindedness or insanity. The gravest diseases are those of the heart, born either of misguiding doubts or ruinous desires, and such sickness is the cause of everlasting misery—Allah’s protection is sought.

Yet despite this, people, in their heedlessness, crowd hospitals and clinics to treat bodily illnesses, while they rarely turn to the scholars, the gatherings of remembrance, and the doors of the mosques to cure the diseases of the heart. This betrays a weakness of intellect, a weakness of certainty, a reversal in thinking, and an inability to distinguish realities.

– arzuqnī (provide for me): grant me sustenance that spares me in this worldly life from needing Your creation, and grant me ample provision in the Hereafter, like what You have prepared for the servants upon whom You have bestowed Your favor.

According to Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamāʿah, rizq (provision) encompasses both the lawful and the unlawful; nevertheless, the context of this supplication is to ask for lawful provision in this world.