1. Supplication of Submission
اللهم أَسْلَمْتُ وَجْهِي إِلَيْكَ وَفَوَّضْتُ أَمْرِي إِلَيْكَ وَأَلْجَأْتُ ظَهْرِي إِلَيْكَ رَغْبَةً وَرَهْبَةً إِلَيْكَ لَا مَلْجَأَ ولا منجی مِنْكَ إلا إِلَيْكَ اللهم آمَنْتُ بِكِتَابِكَ الذي أَنْزَلْتَ وَبِنَبِيِّكَ الذي أَرْسَلْتَ
O God! I have consigned myself to You and submitted my affairs to You and rested my back against You while fearing Your might and while moving towards You with fondness. There is no refuge and resting place after running away from You, and if ever there is, then it is with You. Lord! I professed faith in the Book that You have revealed and professed faith in the Prophet whom You have sent as a Messenger.1
2. Supplication for God’s Mercy
اللهم رَحْمَتَكَ أَرْجُو فلا تَكِلْنِي إلی نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ وَأَصْلِحْ لي شَأْنِي كُلَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إلا أنت
O God! I am hopeful of Your mercy. Please do not consign me to my base desires for even a moment and reform all my affairs. Lord! There is no deity except You.2
3. Supplication for a Deep Relationship with the Qur’an
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي عَبْدُكَ وَابْنُ عَبْدِكَ وَابْنُ أَمَتِكَ نَاصِيَتِي بِيَدِكَ مَاضٍ فِيَّ حُكْمُكَ عَدْلٌ فِيَّ قَضَاؤُكَ أَسْأَلُكَ بِكُلِّ اسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ سَمَّيْتَ بِهِ نَفْسَكَ أَوْ عَلَّمْتَهُ أَحَدًا مِنْ خَلْقِكَ أَوْ أَنْزَلْتَهُ فِي كِتَابِكَ أَوْ اسْتَأْثَرْتَ بِهِ فِي عِلْمِ الْغَيْبِ عِنْدَكَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ الْقُرْآنَ رَبِيعَ قَلْبِي وَنُورَ صَدْرِي وَجِلَاءَ حُزْنِي وَذَهَابَ هَمِّي
O God! I am Your servant, the son of Your male servant and maid servant. My forehead is in Your hands. Your commands are implemented on me. Your decision about me is correct. By means of every name of Yours by which You have called Yourself or revealed in Your Book or taught to any of Your creations or adopted in knowledge specific to You, I request You to make the Qur’an the season of spring for my heart, the radiance of my chest, the remedy of my sorrow and the solution of my difficulties.3
4. Supplication for Help
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ الْهَمِّ وَالْحَزَنِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالْكَسَلِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَالْجُبْنِ وَضَلَعِ الدَّيْنِ وَغَلَبَةِ الرِّجَالِ
O God! I seek refuge with You from sorrow, distress, meekness, laziness, stinginess, cowardice, and from the burden of debt and from the dominance of people.4
5. Supplication of Istikharah
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْعَظِيمِ فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلَا أَقْدِرُ وَتَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ خَيْرٌ لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاقْدُرْهُ لِي وَ يَسِّرْهُ لِي ثُمَّ بَارِكْ لِيْ فِيْهِ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ شَرٌّ لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ وَاقْدُرْ لِي الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ ثُمَّ رَضِّنِي بِهِ
O God! I seek goodness through Your
knowledge and through Your might I seek strength, and I
request from You Your great blessings, because You have the
might and I do not have the might. You know everything and I
do not know, and You have knowledge of the unseen. God! If in
Your knowledge this action [which I intend to do] is better
with regard to my religion, my life and my fate, then destine
it for me and make it easy for me and then add blessings to it
for me. God! In Your knowledge if this action is evil for me,
for my religion and for my fate, then turn it away from me and
[God!] whatever is better for me, ordain that for me wherever
it is, and then make me satisfied with it.5
6. Supplication when Waking Up
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَحْيَانَا بَعْدَ
مَا أَمَاتَنَا وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُورُ
Gratitude is for God alone who gave us life after death and
one day towards Him shall be the return.6
7. Supplications for Forgiveness
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي ظُلْمًا
كَثِيرًا وَلَا يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ فَاغْفِرْ لِي
مَغْفِرَةً مِنْ عِنْدِكَ وَارْحَمْنِي إِنَّك أَنْتَ الْغَفُورُ
الرَّحِيمُ
O God! I have wronged my soul a lot and none except You can
forgive my sins. So forgive me through Your compassion and
have mercy on me. Indeed, You are Forgiving and Ever Merciful.7
اللَّهُمَّ اغْسِلْ خَطَايَايَ بِمَاءِ
الثَّلْجِ وَالْبَرَدِ وَنَقِّ قَلْبِي مِنْ الْخَطَايَا كَمَا
يُنَقَّی الثَّوْبُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنْ الدَّنَسِ وَبَاعِدْ
بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ خَطَايَايَ كَمَا بَاعَدْتَ بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ
وَالْمَغْرِبِ
O God! Wash my sins with water of snow and hail and cleanse my
heart of sins the way a white cloth is cleansed of dirt and
distance me from my sins the way you have distanced the East
and the West from one another.8
اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِي خَطِيئَتِي وَجَهْلِي
وَإِسْرَافِي فِي أَمْرِي وَمَا أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِ مِنِّي
اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْلِي جِدِّي وَهَزْلِي وَخَطَئِی وَعَمْدِي
وَكُلُّ ذَلِكَ عِنْدِي اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِي مَا قَدَّمْتُ
وَمَا أَخَّرْتُ وَمَا أَسْرَرْتُ وَمَا أَعْلَنْتُ وَمَا أَنْتَ
أَعْلَمُ بِهِ مِنِّي أَنْتَ الْمُقَدِّمُ وَأَنْتَ الْمُؤَخِّرُ
وَأَنْتَ عَلَی كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
O God! Forgive my mistakes and foolishness and my excesses I
commit in my affairs and all those things which You are more
aware of than me. O God! Forgive whatever I have done with
seriousness and whatever I have done in jest, whatever I have
done intentionally and whatever I have done un-intentionally.
All this is from me. O God! Forgive whatever I have sent
forward and whatever I have left behind and whatever I have
concealed and whatever I have done openly and that also which
You know more than me. It is You Who sends forward and it is
You Who relegates backwards and You have power over all
things.9
8. Supplication for Embarking on Journey
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَذَا وَمَا
كُنَّا لَهُ مُقْرِنِينَ وَإِنَّا إِلَی رَبِّنَا
لَمُنْقَلِبُونَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّا نَسْأَلُكَ فِي سَفَرِنَا
هَذَا الْبِرَّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَمِنْ الْعَمَلِ مَا تَرْضَی
اللَّهُمَّ هَوِّنْ عَلَيْنَا سَفَرَنَا هَذَا وَاطْوِ عَنَّا
بُعْدَهُ اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ الصّاحِبُ فِي السَّفَرِ
وَالْخَلِيفَةُ فِي الْأَهْلِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ
مِنْ وَعْثَاءِ السَّفَرِ وَكَآبَةِ الْمَنْظَرِ وَسُوءِ
الْمُنْقَلَبِ فِي الْمَالِ وَالْأَهْلِ
Glory be to He Who has made this [means of] transport
subservient to us otherwise we would not have been able to
make it subservient to us, and in indeed we are to return to
our Lord. O God! We ask from You piety and virtue in this
journey of ours and ask from You [to make us do] deeds which
please You. Lord! Make this journey of ours easy for us and
shorten its length. O God! You are the companion in this
journey and the guardian for the family left behind. O God! I
seek refuge with You from the hardships of this journey and
from any evil sight that I may see and from any evil which may
await me when I return to my family and my wealth.10
9. Supplication at Tahajjud Time
عن أبي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيْ الله عَنْهُ أَنَّ
رَسُوْلَ الله صَلَّي الله عليه وَسَلَّمَ قال يَنْزِلُ رَبُّنَا
تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ إلی السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا
حين يَبْقَی ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ الْآخِرُ يقول من يَدْعُونِي
فَأَسْتَجِيبَ له من يَسْأَلُنِي فَأُعْطِيَهُ من
يَسْتَغْفِرُنِي فَأَغْفِرَ له
Abu Hurayrah reports that God’s Messenger said: “Every night,
the Almighty directs His attention at our sky when one-third
of the night remains, saying: ‘Who is there to supplicate
before me that I can respond to him; who is it that can ask
from Me so that I grant him; who is it that seeks mercy so
that I forgive him.’”11
10. Supplications at Funerals
اللهم اغْفِرْ له وَارْحَمْهُ وَعَافِهِ
وَاعْفُ عنه وَاَكْرِمْ نُزُلَهُ وَوَسِّعْ مُدْخَلَهُ
وَاغْسِلْهُ بِالْمَاءِ وَالثَّلْجِ وَالْبَرَدِ وَنَقِّهِ من
الْخَطَايَا كما نَقَّيْتَ الثَّوْبَ الْأَبْيَضَ من الدَّنَسِ
وَاَبْدِلْهُ دَارًا خَيْرًا من دَارِهِ وَاَهْلًا خَيْرًا من
اَهْلِهِ وَزَوْجًا خَيْرًا من زَوْجِهِ وَاَدْخِلْهُ الْجَنَّةَ
وَاَعِذْهُ من عَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ او من عَذَابِ النَّارِ
O Lord! Forgive him, have mercy on him, grant him prosperity
and pardon him, and be a good host to him. Broaden his grave
and wash him with water and with snow and with hail. Cleanse
him of his sins just as a white piece of cloth is cleansed
from filth. [O Lord!] Grant him a better house in place of his
own house and a better family than his own family and a spouse
better than his own and protect him from the punishment of the
grave or the Fire.12
اللهم اغْفِرْ لِحَيِّنَا وَمَيِّتِنَا
وَشَاهِدِنَا وَغَائِبِنَا وَصَغِيرِنَا وَكَبِيرِنَا
وَذَكَرِنَا وَأُنْثَانَا اللهم من أَحْيَيْتَهُ مِنَّا
فَأَحْيِهِ علی الْإِسْلَامِ وَمَنْ تَوَفَّيْتَهُ مِنَّا
فَتَوَفَّهُ علی الْإِيمَانِ اللهم لَا تَحْرِمْنَا أَجْرَهُ ولا
تُضِلَّنَا بَعْدَهُ
O Lord! Forgive our living and our dead, those [who are]
present [here] and those who are not and forgive our young
ones and old ones, our men and our women. Lord! Whoever you
give life, give him life such that he [follows] Islam and
whoever you give death, let him die on faith. Lord! Do not
deprive us of the reward of this deceased person and do not
lead us astray after him.13
اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّ فُلَانَ بْنَ فُلَانٍ فِي
ذِمَّتِكَ وَحَبْلِ جِوَارِكَ فَقِهِ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْقَبْرِ
وَعَذَابِ النَّارِ وَأَنْتَ أَهْلُ الْوَفَاءِ وَالْحَقِّ
اللَّهُمَّ فَاغْفِرْ لَهُ وَارْحَمْهُ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ
الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ
Lord! Such-and-such a person who is the son of such-and-such a
person is in your refuge and in the covenant of your asylum.
So, protect him from the trial of the grave and the torment of
the Fire. Only You are worthy of the truth and of the
fulfillment of your promises. So, O God! Forgive him and have
mercy on him. Indeed, you are Forgiving and Ever-Merciful.14
11. Supplication for Entering and Leaving the Mosque
عن أبي أُسَيْدٍ قال قال رَسُوْلَ اللهِ
صَلَّي اللهُ عَليه وَسَلَّمَ إذا دخل أحدكم الْمَسْجِدَ
فَلْيَقُلْ اللهم افْتَحْ لي أَبْوَابَ رَحْمَتِكَ وإذا خَرَجَ
فَلْيَقُلْ اللهم إني أَسْأَلُكَ من فَضْلِكَ
Abu Usayd stated the God’s Messenger (sws) said: “When anyone
among you enters a mosque, he should say:
اللّهُمَّ افْتَحْ لِي اَبْوَابَ رَحْمَتِكَ (O God!
Open for me the doors of your mercy) and when he leaves it, he
should say: اللّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ
مِنْ فَضْلِكَ (O God! I seek from you your blessings).”15
12. Supplication of Responding to the Adhan
اللهُمَّ رَبَّ هذه الدَّعْوَةِ التَّامَّةِ
وَالصَّلَاةِ الْقَائِمَةِ آتِ مُحَمَّدًا الْوَسِيلَةَ
وَالْفَضِيلَةَ وَابْعَثْهُ مَقَامًا مَحْمُودًا الذي وَعَدْتَهُ
O Lord of this complete call and of the prayer which stands as
its result! Bless Muhammad and grant him a rank of nearness
and raise him up on the Day of Judgement in a manner that he
earns the praise of the people – something which you had
promised him.16
13. Supplication to acknowledge God’s Power
اللهم لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ ولا
مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ ولا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ
الْجَدُّ
O Lord! Whomsoever You have given, no one can stop him [from
receiving it], and no one can give the one whom You stop
giving, and the greatness and majesty of none can save him
from Your grasp.17
14. Supplication for the Holy Prophet (sws)
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَی مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَی
آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَی آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَبَارِكْ
عَلَی مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَی آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَی
آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي الْعَالَمِينَ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ
O God! Be merciful to Muhammad and his clan the way you have
been merciful to Abraham’s clan and bless Muhammad and his
clan the way you have blessed Abraham’s clan in this whole
world. Indeed, You are great and possess all worthy
attributes.18
15. A Treasury of Supplications
اللَّهُمَّ بِعِلْمِكَ الْغَيْبَ
وَقُدْرَتِكَ عَلَی الْخَلْقِ أَحْيِنِي مَا عَلِمْتَ الْحَيَاةَ
خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا عَلِمْتَ الْوَفَاةَ خَيْرًا لِي
اللَّهُمَّ وَأَسْأَلُكَ خَشْيَتَكَ فِي الْغَيْبِ
وَالشَّهَادَةِ وَأَسْأَلُكَ كَلِمَةَ الْحَقِّ فِي الرِّضَا
وَالْغَضَبِ وَأَسْأَلُكَ الْقَصْدَ فِي الْفَقْرِ وَالْغِنَی
وَأَسْأَلُكَ نَعِيمًا لَا يَنْفَدُ وَأَسْأَلُكَ قُرَّةَ عَيْنٍ
لَا تَنْقَطِعُ وَأَسْأَلُكَ الرِّضَاءَ بَعْدَ الْقَضَاءِ
وَأَسْأَلُكَ بَرْدَ الْعَيْشِ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَأَسْأَلُكَ
لَذَّةَ النَّظَرِ إِلَی وَجْهِكَ وَالشَّوْقَ إِلَی لِقَائِكَ
فِي غَيْرِ ضَرَّاءَ مُضِرَّةٍ وَلَا فِتْنَةٍ مُضِلَّةٍ
اللَّهُمَّ زَيِّنَّا بِزِينَةِ الْإِيمَانِ وَاجْعَلْنَا
هُدَاةً مُهْتَدِينَ
O God! Through the help of Your knowledge of the unknown and
Your might over Your Creation give me life till the time You
deem it appropriate for me, and give me death when You deem it
appropriate for me. O God! And I seek humility towards You in
open and in private, and want to be guided to the truth in
happiness and in sorrow and request You to make me a moderate
person between poverty and affluence and want a blessing which
will never end and the contentment of the eyes which will
never cease, and seek the courage to be happy at Your
decisions and seek the serenity of life after death, and seek
from You the fondness of meeting You and the joy of seeing You
in a manner that I do not remain in hardships which are
harmful and in a trial which leads [a person] astray. O God!
Please grant us the grace of faith, and make us such that we
ourselves remain among the guided and are a source of
providing guidance to others.19
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ
لَا يَنْفَعُ وَمِنْ قَلْبٍ لَا يَخْشَعُ وَمِنْ نَفْسٍ لَا
تَشْبَعُ وَمِنْ دَعْوَةٍ لَا يُسْتَجَابُ لَهَا
O God! I seek refuge with You from knowledge which is not
beneficial, from the heart which is devoid of humility, from
the soul whose [greed] is never quenched and from the
supplication which is never accepted.20 1. Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma‘il al-Bukhari, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, 3rd ed., vol. 1 (Beirut: Dar Ibn Kathir, 1987), 97, (no. 244). 2. Abu Da’ud Sulayman ibn al-Ash‘ath al-Sajistani, Sunan, vol. 4 (Beirut: Dar al-jil, 1992), 324, (5090). 3. Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 1 (Cairo: Mu’assasah al-Qurtubah, n.d.), 391, (no. 3712). 5. Ibid., vol. 1, 391, (no. 1109). On the authority of Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah (rta). 6. Ibid., vol. 5, 2326, (no. 5953). On the authority of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (rta). 7. Ibid., vol. 1, 286, (no. 799). On the authority of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (rta). 8. Abu al-Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri.
9. On the authority of Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari (rta).
10. Muslim, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 2, 978, (no. 1342). On the authority of ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (rta).11. Al-Bukhari, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 1, 384, (no. 1094).
12. Muslim, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 2, 662, (no. 963). On the authority of ‘Awf ibn Malik (rta).
13. Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Qazwini
ibn Majah, Sunan, vol. 1 (Beirut: Dar al-fikr, n.d), 480, (no. 1498).On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (rta). 14. Abu Da’ud, Sunan, vol. 3, 211, (no. 3202). On the authority of Wathilah ibn al-Asqa‘ (rta).15. Muslim, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 1, 494, (no. 713). On the authority of Abu Usayd (rta).
16. Al-Bukhari, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 1, 222, (no. 589). On the authority of Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah (rta). 17. Muslim, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 1, 414, (no. 593). On the authority of Mu‘awiyyah (rta). 18. Ibid.,
19. Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shu‘ayb al-Nasa’i, Sunan, 2nd ed., vol. 3 (Halab: Maktab al-matbu‘at al-islamiyyah, 1986.), 54, (no. 1305). On the authority of ‘Ammar ibn Yasir (rta).
20. Muslim, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol. 4, 2088, (no. 2722). On the authority of Zayd ibn Arqam (rta).