95. Hopelessness and Frustration

عن أَنَسِ بن مَالِكٍ رضي الله عنه قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لَا يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أحدكم الْمَوْتَ من ضُرٍّ أَصَابَهُ فَإِنْ كان لَا بُدَّ فَاعِلًا فَلْيَقُلْ اللهم أَحْيِنِي ما كانت الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لي وَتَوَفَّنِي إذا كانت الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لي

Anas ibn Malik (rta) reported that the Prophet (sws) said: “No one among you should desire death if some suffering afflicts him. And if he cannot but help do something, he should say: ‘God! Grant me life as long as life is better for me and give me death when death is better for me.”[1]

[1]. Ibid., vol. 5, 2146, (no. 5347).