Dua for Strength & Protection

Full Hadith

Suhaib reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: There lived a king before you and he had a court magician. As he (the magician) grew old, he said to the king: I have grown old, so send some young boy to me so that I should teach him magic. He (the king) sent to him a young man so that he should train him (in magic). And on his way (to the magician), he (the young man) found a monk sitting there. He (the young man) listened to his (the monk's) talk and was impressed by it. It became his habit that on his way to the magician he met the monk and sat there, and he came to the magician late. He (the magician) beat him because of the delay. He made a complaint about that to the monk and he said to him: When you feel afraid of the magician, say: Members of my family had detained me. And when you feel afraid of your family, you should say: The magician had detained me. It so happened that there came a huge beast (of prey) and it blocked the way of the people, and he (the young boy) said: I will come to know today whether the magician is superior or the monk is superior. He picked up a stone and said: O Allah, if the affair of the monk is dearer to Thee than the affair of the magician, cause death to this animal so that the people should be able to move about freely. He threw that stone towards it and killed it, and the people began to move about freely on the path. He (the young man) then came to that monk and informed him, and the monk said: My son, today you are superior to me. Your affair has come to a stage where I find that you would soon be put to a trial, and in case you are put to a trial, do not give my clue. That young man began to treat the blind and those suffering from leprosy, and he began to cure people from all kinds of illness. When a companion of the king who had gone blind heard about him, he came to him with numerous gifts and said: If you cure me, all these things collected here would be yours. He said: I myself do not cure anyone. It is Allah Who cures, and if you affirm faith in Allah, I shall supplicate Allah to cure you. He affirmed his faith in Allah and Allah cured him, and he came to the king and sat by his side as he used to sit before. The king said to him: Who restored your eyesight? He said: My Lord. Thereupon he said: It means that you have a lord besides me. He said: My Lord and your Lord is Allah. So he (the king) took hold of him and tormented him till he gave a clue about that boy. The young man was thus summoned and the king said to him: O boy, it has been conveyed to me that you have become so proficient in your magic that you cure the blind and those suffering from leprosy and you do such and such things. Thereupon he said: I do not cure anyone; it is Allah Who cures. So he (the king) took hold of him and began to torment him, and he gave a clue about the monk. The monk was thus summoned and it was said to him: You should turn back from your religion. He, however, refused to do so. He ordered a saw to be brought, and when it was done, he (the king) placed it in the middle of his head and tore it into two parts till a part fell down. Then the courtier of the king was brought and it was said to him: Turn back from your religion. And he refused to do so, and the saw was placed in the middle of his head and it was torn till a part fell down. Then that young boy was brought and it was said to him: Turn back from your religion. He refused to do so and he was handed over to a group of his courtiers. And he said to them: Take him to such and such a mountain; make him climb up that mountain and when you reach its top, ask him to renounce his faith, but if he refuses to do so, then throw him down the mountain. So they took him and made him climb up the mountain and he said: O Allah, save me from them in any way Thou likest. And the mountain began to quake and they all fell down, and that person came walking to the king. The king said to him: What has happened to your companions? He said: Allah has saved me from them. He again handed him over to some of his courtiers and said: Take him and carry him in a small boat and when you reach the middle of the ocean, ask him to renounce his religion, but if he does not renounce his religion, throw him into the water. So they took him and he said: O Allah, save me from them and from what they want to do. Soon the boat turned over and they were drowned, and he came walking to the king. The king said to him: What has happened to your companions? He said: Allah has saved me from them. And he said to the king: You cannot kill me until you do what I ask you to do. And he said: What is that? He said: You should gather the people in a plain and hang me by the trunk of a tree. Then take hold of an arrow from the quiver and say: In the name of Allah, the Lord of the young boy; then shoot the arrow, and if you do that, then you will be able to kill me. So he (the king) gathered the people in an open plain and tied him (the boy) to the trunk of a tree. Then he took hold of an arrow from his quiver and placed the arrow in the bow and said: In the name of Allah, the Lord of the young boy. He then shot the arrow and it struck his temple. He (the boy) placed his hands upon the temple where the arrow had struck him and he died. And the people said: We affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man, we affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man, we affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man. The courtiers came to the king and it was said to him: Do you see that Allah has actually done what you aimed at averting? The people have affirmed their faith in their Lord. He (the king) commanded that ditches be dug at important points in the path. When these ditches were dug and the fire was lit in them, it was said to the people: He who would not turn back from his religion would be thrown into the fire, or it would be said to them to jump into it. The people courted death but did not renounce their religion, till a woman came with her child and she felt hesitant about jumping into the fire, and the child said to her: O mother, endure this ordeal, for it is the truth.