From Dhikr · one of thirty
Dua for old age and weakness
In old age, illness, or seasons of physical and emotional weakness.
Qala rabbi inni wahanal-'azmu minni washta'alar-ra'su shayban wa lam akun bidu'a'ika rabbi shaqiyya. Wa inni khiftul-mawaliya min wara'i wa kanatimra'ati 'aqiran fahab li min ladunka waliyyan.
He said, 'My Lord, my bones have grown weak and my head is ablaze with grey, and never, my Lord, have I been left unblessed when I called on You. I fear what my kinsmen will do after me, and my wife cannot have children; so give me, from Your own presence, an heir.'
Qur’an 19:4-5
Zakariyya was elderly and frail, yet his trust in Allah's generosity had never wavered. He laid bare his weakness, not as complaint, but as an offering of vulnerability before the Most Generous.