to avert the harsher pain. Allah alone is the One whose help is sought.

Benefit
The Exalted says: “And Job, when he called upon his Lord, ‘Indeed, adversity has touched me, and You are the Most Merciful of those who show mercy’ (83).” ⦗al-Anbiya 21:83⦘
In this supplication Job combined: the very essence of tawḥīd (pure monotheism); an overt confession of poverty and need before his Lord; the sweetness of love tasted in humble entreaty; acknowledgment of the divine attribute of mercy—that He is the Most Merciful of the merciful; seeking His favor by means of His own attributes; and a candid avowal of personal destitution and dire need. Whenever one who is tried attains this state, his affliction is removed. It has been repeatedly experienced that whoever recites it seven times—especially with such understanding—Allah lifts his hardship.

Benefit
Concerning His prophet Joseph, Allah relates that he said: “You are my Protector in this world and the Hereafter; let me die as a Muslim and join me with the righteous” (101). ⦗Yusuf 12:101⦘
This prayer gathers together: an acknowledgment of tawḥīd; submission to the Lord; a display of dependence upon Him; disavowal of allegiance to anyone besides Him, exalted is He; the realisation that dying upon Islam is the servant’s loftiest aim; the recognition that this lies in Allah’s hand, not the servant’s; affirmation of the Resurrection; and the request to be in the company of the blessed.

Benefit
The Almighty says: “There is nothing except that with Us are its treasuries” ⦗al-Hijr 15:21⦘—a verse that contains a priceless treasure: nothing should be sought except from the One with whom its treasuries reside, whose hands hold the keys to those treasuries, and seeking it from anyone else is to ask one who possesses neither the