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What are the supplications you recommend for dealing with a harmful neighbor who does not stop hurting us, knowing that she is afflicted with calamities because of people's prayers against her, and we do not want to pray against her or be held accountable with her on the Day of Resurrection?

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Islam encourages good treatment of neighbors, and this includes treating them well through gifts, loans, greetings, cheerfulness, helping them, congratulating them, and offering condolences, in addition to refraining from harming them and enduring any harm from them. Many prophetic supplications (du'as) have also been reported for relief from distress and sorrow, among them: "O Allah, I am Your servant, son of Your servant, son of Your maidservant. My forelock is in Your hand. Your judgment upon me is assured, and Your decree concerning me is just. I ask You by every name belonging to You, by which You have named Yourself, or revealed in Your Book, or taught to any of Your creation, or kept hidden in the knowledge of the unseen with You, that You make the Qur'an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the remover of my sadness, and the dispeller of my worries," and the supplication of Yunus (peace be upon him): "There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I was of the wrongdoers."

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