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SUPPLICATION WHEN YOU ARE UNABLE TO FULFIL YOUR OBLIGATION

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“A slave had settled the terms of his freedom with his master and came to Ali and told him, ‘I am unable to discharge my repayments according to the agreement and I ask you to help me.’ Ali said to him, ‘Shall I teach you a supplication which the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, taught me whereby Allah will pay your debt even if it were as heavy as a mountain?’ Supplicate saying: 'O Allah, make that which is lawful sufficient for me so as to make me independent of that which is unlawful and from Your Grace give me a sufficiency which would make me independent of all except You.'"

Tirmidhi with a chain up to Ali, may Allah honor is face who related that the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, said this.