DUAS

FORGIVENESS

O Allah! We ask You to forgive our sins before we leave this place. Let our
good efforts be met with Your gratitude, our good deeds be profitable, and our
deeds successful. O You The Most Merciful. (1)
O Allah! Make my efforts worthy of acceptance, and my sins forgiven, my
deeds accepted, and my flaws concealed. O The Best of those who hear. (2)
O Allah! Forgive me because You love forgiveness and You are All Forgiving.
(3).
My Lord, grant me forgiveness and turn towards me. You are indeed The OftReturning, Most Merciful. (4)
O Allah I am asking You - O Allah, The One. The Eternal Absolute and The
One Who begets not and Who is not begotten, there is none like unto You to
forgive my sins, verily You are Most Forgiving, Most Merciful. (5)
O Allah! You are my Lord, there is no deity worthy of worship but You. You
created me and I am Your servant, and I am faithful to my covenant and my
promise (to You) as much as I can. I seek refuge in You from all the evil I have
done. I acknowledge before You all the blessings You have bestowed upon me,
and I confess to You all my sins. Grant me forgiveness for nobody can forgive
sins except You. (6)
O Allah! Forgive my past and future sins and whatever I have done in secret,

and whatever I have done in public. You are The One Who brings forward
and Who delays, there is no deity worthy of worship but You. (7)
O Allah! I have done great injustice to myself. No one forgives sin but You, so
grant me forgiveness from Your Presence, and show mercy upon me; You are
indeed The Oft-Forgiving. (8)

O Allah! Cleanse my heart with water of snow and hail, and cleanse my heart
from all sins as a white cloth is cleansed from dirt. Distance me and my sins as
You have distanced the East from the West. (9)
O Allah! I seek refuge in You from knowingly (or unknowingly) associating
anything unto You, and ask Your forgiveness for what I do not know. (10)
O Allah! Grant me forgiveness and show mercy on me. Grant me well-being,
and grant me provision. (11)

THE QURAN
O Allah! Make the Holy Quran the delight of my heart, the light of my soul
and the relief of my sorrow and grief. (12)
O Allah! Help us to recite the Holy Quran all day and night in the way that
pleases Your Lordship.
O Allah! Let it be a cure for our hearts and a remedy for our diseases and let it
be our saviour from the Fire. (1)
O Allah! Let us be amongst the people of the Quran who are the closest people
to You. O You The Merciful of all. (1)
O Allah! Let us be of those who do Halaal things mentioned in the Quran and
avoid Haraam things mentioned in it. Let us be of those who recite it well and
understand its clear meanings, as well as the hidden ones. (1)
O Allah! Make victorious Your religion, Your Book (the Quran) and the

Sunnah of Your Prophet Muhammad. (1)

O Allah! Take me closer towards Your pleasure, and keep me away from Your
anger and punishment. Grant me the opportunity to recite Your verses (of the
Quran), by Your Mercy, O The Most Merciful. (2)

THIS LIFE / THE HEREAFTER

O Allah! We ask You for everything that is good, in this life and the Hereafter,
whether we know it or not; and we seek Your protection from everything that
is bad, in this world or the Hereafter, whether we know it or not. (1)
O Allah, by Your Mercy! Make things easy for us and help us do anything that
pleases you and is good for us in this world and the Hereafter. (1)
O Allah! Set right our religion that guards our souls from sins, make this world
where we live better for us and make the Hereafter to where we return better
for us. Let life be a cause for more good, and let death put an end to any evil
that may befall on us. (1)
O Allah! Make our last days better in all aspects, and spare us from
humiliation in this world and punishment in the Hereafter. (1)
O Allah! Keep us firm with the word that stands firm in this world and in the
Hereafter, and make us of the saved ones. (1)

DEATH
O Allah! We ask you for full Eeman (faith), true conviction, acceptable deeds
and true repentance before death; rest and ease on death; and forgiveness and
mercy after death. (1)
O Allah! Purify our hearts, cover our defects, forgive our sins and let the last of
our deeds be the best.
best O Lord of the worlds. (1)
O Allah! Let our last days be the best days of our life, and our last deeds be the
best of our deeds. And the best day, the day we meet You. (1)
O Allah! You are our refuge when all doors are closed in our face. You are our
hope when we become separated from our loved ones and left alone to face
our fate after death. Where no good deeds can be accepted any more. (1)
O Allah! Make the agony of death easy for us and take our souls while You are
pleased with us. (1)
O Allah! Let us live as Muslims and die as Muslims without disgracing or
subjecting us to temptations. (1)
O Allah! Cleanse my heart from the sickness of arrogance and pride, and let
me die as a sincere, humble Muslim. (2)
O Allah! Keep me alive in humility, and cause me to die in humility, and raise
me amongst those who are humble. (13)

THE GRAVE / JUDGEMENT DAY

O Allah! Let the grave be our best home after death, make its narrow vaults wide and
spacious.
O Allah! Have mercy on us when we stand humble on the Day of Judgement, make
our feet go steady on the narrow path of Siraat, save us from the agonies of the Day
of Judgement and make our faces white when the faces of the criminals and
disbelievers become black.
O Allah! Let us have an ever quenching drink from the Haud (pool) of Your Prophet
Muhammad. (1)
O Allah! Light the graves of Muslims who have died, and be merciful and make life
easier for those who are still alive. (1)
O Allah! Have Mercy on those Muslims who have died believing that there is no god
other than You, and that Prophet Muhammad is Your Messenger.
O Allah! Have mercy on them and forgive their sins, make them right and cast Your
pardon upon them. Let them rest in peace, make their access wide enough and wash
them with rain water, snow and ice; clean them from sins as a white dress is cleaned
from dirt. (1)
O Allah! Let their graves be spacious and full of light and joy so they rest in peace till
they are raised up secured on the day of Resurrection. We ask You to have Mercy on
us too when we will become like them under earth..lonely and helpless, as no
more deeds are allowed. (1)
O Allah! Let my account be taken by an easy reckoning. (14)
O Allah! I seek refuge with You from the punishment of the Fire, the afflictions of the
grave, the punishment of the grave, the evil of the affliction of poverty and from the
evil of the affliction caused by Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal. (15)
O Allah! Deliver me from Your punishment the Day You raise Your servants. (16)

HELL/PARADISE
O Allah! We ask You to be pleased with us, reward us with Paradise and we
seek Your refuge from Your anger and the punishment of the Fire. (1)
O Allah! We ask You for Paradise, and to bring us closer to it by any act or
saying; and protect us from the Fire and from any act or saying that brings us
closer to it. (1)
O Allah! You hear our supplications even before we utter them as You can
cover the dry bones with flesh. We call You to spare our necks, and those of
our parents, and of all Muslims from the fire of Hell. (1)
O Allah! On this day, open for me the doors of the Heavens, and lock the doors
of Hell from me. Help me to recite the Quran, O The One Who sends down
tranquility into the hearts of the believers. (2)
O Allah! I am asking You, for to You belongs all praise, there is none worthy of
worship but You, You are One, there is no partner unto You, The Benefactor, O
Majesty, Honour and Bounty, The Living, the Self-Subsisting, I am asking You
(for) Paradise and seek refuge from Hell. (17)
O Allah! I ask You for all the good that is near and that which is far, the one of
which I know of and the one I do not.
O Allah! I ask You for the good of what Your Prophet and Servant asked of,
and I seek refuge in You from the evils of which Your Prophet and Servant
asked of.
O Allah! I ask You for Paradise and for such deeds and sayings that will bring
me closer to it, and I seek refuge in You from the deeds and sayings which
would take me further from it. I ask You to make all decisions good for me.
(18)

RAMADHAAN
O Allah! Let us complete the month of ramadhaan in such a manner that will
meet Your satisfaction; spare us from Your punishment and from the Fire of
Hell and let our final abode be in Your Paradise. (1)
O Allah! Let us live to fast Ramadhaan for many years to come and many times
to elapse. (1)
O Allah! Accept our fasting and prayers during the Holy Month; forgive our
mistakes and sins, and help us to observe Your commands to enable us to be
prepared for what is to come. (1)
O Allah! Let us be steadfast on the right path all the time, whether during
Ramadhaan or other than Ramadhaan. (1)

FOR OURSELVES
O Allah! Give us piety and purify our souls. You are The Master and Lord of
the souls. O Allah! We seek Your guard from vain knowledge, lack of fearing
You, and from having an unsatisfied soul, and an unanswered supplication.
(19)
O Allah! Let us be satisfied with the Halaal (permissible) and separate us from
the Haraam (prohibited). Enrich us with Your favours so that we wont be in
need of anyone else. (1)
O Allah! We ask You that we may do charitable (good) works and avoid
objectionable deeds. We ask for Your forgiveness and blessings. O Allah! If
You want to test our Faith, it is better for us to die than to fail the test.
test (1)
O Allah! Guide us to the best of manners and deeds. You are the only One who
guides best; and keep us away from the worst of deeds.. no one can avert
these from us than You. (1)
O Allah! Relieve us from all distress, alleviate all our worries and cure all our
illnesses. (1)
O Allah! We ask You to grant us from Your great favors, and not to deprive us
from Your endless bounties.
O Allah! Give us and do not forbid us. Give us more and do not decrease it.
Keep us related toYou and not cut off. Lead us to the right path and make it
easy for us. (1)
O Allah! Let us be among those who called You and had their calls answered;
those who asked for Your guidance and were guided; who sought Your victory
and were given; who relied on You and were
were satisfied; and those who repented
and got their repentance accepted. (1)

O Allah! Purify our souls from hypocrisy, our tongues from lying and our eyes
from treachery. You know the treacherous eyes and what is buried in the
hearts. (1)
O Allah! We ask You for guidance, piety, virtuousness and affluence. (1)
O Allah! Guard us with Islam all the time, whether we are standing, sitting or
lying. Protect us from the malicious acts of the enemy and the envious. (1)
O Allah! You control all the hearts so make our belief in Islam steadfast, give
us strength to overcome our weaknesses and be our Guardian, release our
captives, heal our fractures, and let our bodies be prohibited to the Fire. (1)
O Allah! Save us from disease, agony, enemys satire, and ill-fate. Let us live a
happy and healthy life, and enjoin upon us the same abode of martyrs and the
neighbourhood of Prophets.
O Allah! Give us patience to face difficult times and to win against our
enemies. (1)
O Allah! Help me to remember, praise and worship You well. (20)
O Allah! Teach us what is useful and let us benefit from what You have taught
us. (1)
O Allah! Let us love Eeman (faith) and make it nice to our hearts and let us
hate disbelief, blasphemy and disobedience, and make us among those guided
by You. (1)
O Allah! We seek Your pleasure to guard us against Your anger, and Your
mercy to guard us against Your punishment. However much we try to praise
You, we cannot praise You as much as You have praised Yourself. (21)

O Allah! Do not condemn me for slips, make me decrease mistakes and errors.
Do not make me a target for afflictions and troubles, by Your Honour, O The
Honour of the Muslims. (2)
O Allah! Purify me from uncleanliness and dirt. Make me patient over events
that are decreed, grant me the ability to be pious, and keep company with the
good, by Your Help, O The Beloved of the destitute. (2)
O Allah! Do not let me degrade myself by incurring Your disobedience, and do
not strike me with the whip of Your punishment. Keep me away from the
causes of Your anger, by Your Kindness and Your Power, O The Ultimate wish
of those who desire. (2)
O Allah! Keep me away from mistakes and sins of the day, and grant me that I
remember You continuously throughout the day and night. (2)
O Allah! Change my affairs from (being) difficult to (being) easy, accept my
apologies, and decrease for me (my) sins and burdens, O The Compassionate
with His righteous servants. (2)
O Allah! Let me love You as You deserve to be loved, and let me fear You as
You deserve to be feared, and let me leave this world serving Your Ummah. (2)
O Allah! Turner of the heart, establish my heart on Your religion. (22)
O Allah! Turner of the heart, move my heart to obey You. (23)
O Allah! I seek refuge with You from cowardice, and seek refuge with You
from miserliness, and seek refuge with You from reaching a degraded geriatric
old age, and seek refuge with You from the afflictions of the world, and from
the punishment in the grave. (24)

O Allah! Your Mercy I do desire, so do not forsake me nor entrust me to myself

even for the blinking of an eye. Facilitate all my affairs, there is no deity
worthy of worship but You. (25)
O Living, O Self-Subsisting, in Your Mercy do I seek help. (26)
O Allah! Cast light in my heart, light on my tongue, light in my eyes, light in
my ears, light on my right, light on my left, light above me, light before me,
light behind me, and cast light in my soul. And give me immense light. (27)
O Allah! Set right my religion which is the basis of my affairs, set right my
world which is my subsistence, set right my Hereafter to which I shall return,
and make my life the source of abundance in every good thing, and make
death a comfort for me from every evil. (28)
O Allah! I seek refuge in You from poverty, from want, from humiliation, and I
seek refuge in You from wronging another or being wronged. (29)
O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the evil of my hearing; the evil of my sight;
the evil of my tongue; and from the evil of my heart. (30)
O Allah! I seek refuge in You from a heart which is not humble; from dua
what is not answered; from a soul which is not satisfied; and from knowledge
that is of no benefit. I seek refuge in You from all these four. (31)
O Allah! I seek refuge in You from appalling character; deeds; desires; and
diseases. (32)
O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the bad day; from the bad night; from the
bad hour; from the bad companion; and from the bad neighbour of the house
of abode. (33)

FOR THE UMMAH

O Allah! Relieve the distressed ones of their worries and the oppressed ones of their
troubles. Settle the debts for the indebted persons and give cure to the sick, whether
they are blood brothers or brothers in Islam. (1)
O Allah! Guide the Muslim Youth to the right path, let them be obedient and help
them to avoid the causes of Your wrath. Preserve them as a treasure for Islam and
Muslims. (1)
O Allah! Guide the Muslim Scholars, help them enforce good conduct and stand
against bad conduct. Preserve them as a treasure for Islam and Muslims. (1)
O Allah! Guide the Muslim rulers and let them have good support/staff who will
show and give them the right advice, and that will show and help them to do right.
And keep them away from bad support/staff. O Lord of the worlds! (1)
O Allah! Guide the Muslim women and protect them from displaying their charms
and beauties, and guard them against the misleading disbelievers and corrupted
persons. (1)
O Allah! Help our brothers everywhere to gain victory over Your enemy and theirs.
O Allah! They are barefooted, naked and hungry. So dress and feed them; they are
poor and need Your compassion. So cast Your mercy on them. O You Most
Compassionate to the poor and Victory Giver to the weak. (1)
O Allah! All of our brothers and sisters who are suffering around the world for Your
sake through torture, violence, imprisoned, etc, forgive their sins and grant them
Paradise. Make it easy on them and their families. (2)
O Allah! Let me have mercy on the orphans; feed the hungry, spread peace; and keep
company with the noble-minded, O The Shelter of the hopeful. (2)

GENERAL
O Allah! It is You we worship, and unto You we pray and prostrate, and
towards You we hasten and You we serve. We hope for Your Mercy and fear
Your punishment, verily Your punishment will fall upon the disbelievers.
O Allah! We seek Your aid and ask Your pardon, we praise You with all good
and do not disbelieve in You. We believe in You and submit unto You, and we
disown and reject those who disbelieve in You. (34)
O Allah! Guide us with those whom You have guided; protect us from evils
along with those whom You have protected; support us along with those
whom You have supported; bless what you have given us, protect us and avert
from us the worst things that You have judged upon us, as You judge and no
one can judge upon You. Those under Your support will never be humiliated
and those whom You have disgraced will never be honoured. (35)
O Allah! Give us a share of Your fear to prevent us from disobeying You; of
obedience to guide us to the way to Your paradise; and of certainty to relieve
us from the burdens of life.
O Allah! Let us enjoy our hearing, sight and powers throughout our life span
and make it a heritage afterwards.
Direct our revenge towards those who were unjust to us and help us against
our enemies. Let us not suffer a calamity concerning our religion and make us
not take this world as our greatest concern or a goal for our knowledge. (1)

O Allah! There is no lord to call but You and no master to ask from but You.
Who else can we call or ask from while You are The Most Generous. (1)
O Allah! Let those who want to harm the Muslims have the same taste of what
they have been plotting returned to their own necks, and keep them busy with
their own troubles and let them destroy themselves with their own hands. (1)

O Allah! Raise the standing of Islam and Muslims and degrade the standing of

Al-Kufr and Al-Kafiruun and the shirk and Mushrikeen (who associate others
with Allah). Destroy the enemies of religion. (1)
O Allah! Make piety and this religion of truth You sent Your Messenger with,
to triumph over all other religions, despite the bad will of the disbelievers. (1)
O Allah!
Allah! You have said Call me and I will answer, and here we have called
You, so hear and answer our call.
call (1)
May the blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad
his Companions, and followers.
followers (1)

, his family,

Source:
(1) Selected Invocations (to be made during Prostration, Witr Prayer and at the end of

Quran Recitation).
Compiled by Muhammad bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Musnad.
First Edition. Published by Darussalam Publications.
(2
2) Not from Quran or Hadith and are offered to point in the right direction those who are
unsure as to where to start. They are only suggestions and can be modified accordingly by
the one supplicating.
(3) Ahmad, Ibn Majah, and Tirmidhi
(4) Tirmidhi 3:153 and sahih Ibn Maajah 2:321
(5) Ahmad 4:328 and Al-Abani [Sifah As-Salaah], Pg.204
(6) Al Bukhari: 8: 2: 318
(7) Al Bukhari: 8: 10: 329
(8) Al Bukhari: 8: 17: 338
(9) Al Bukhari: 8: 47: 388
(10) Ahmad 4:403. Sahih Al-Jami 3:233 and Sahih At-Targheeb Wa At-Tarheeb 1:19
(11) Sahih al-Jami No. 4274
(12) Ahmad 1:391 and Al-Albani declared it sahih
(13) Sahih al-Jami No1272
(14) Reported by Ahmad and hakim who declared it Authentic. Agreed by al-Dhahabi. This
is one of the supplications Muhammad (

) would say before tasleem.

(15) Al Bukhari: 8: 45: 386

(16) Al-Tirmidhi said it is a hasan sahih hadith
(17) Ahmad 1:391 and Al-Albani declared it sahih
(18) Sahih al-Jami No. 1287

(19) Muslim: 35: 98

(20) Abu Daawud 2:86 and An-Nasaaee 3:53
(21) Muslim 1:352
(22) Declared Hasan by al-Tirmidhi
(23) Muslim
(24) Al Bukhari: 8: 45: 385
(25) The Prophet (

) said this is the dua of a person in distress. Al-Albani declared it as

hasan in Al-Kalim Al-Tayyib No. 120

(26) Al-Albani declared it as hasan in Al-Kalim Al-Tayyib No. 118
(27) Al Bukhari: 8: 10: 328
(28) Muslim: 35: 95
(29) Sahih al-Jami No. 1289
(30) Sahih al-Jami No. 1303
(31) Sahih al-Jami No. 1308
(32) Sahih al-Jami No. 1309
(33) Sahih al-Jami No. 1310
(34) Al-Bayhaqee in [As-Sunan Al Kubraa] and he authenticated its chain 2:211. Al-Bani
also declared it Sahih in [Al-Irwaa] 2:170. It is the saying of Umar not the Prophet (
(35) Abu Daawud. Tirmidhi. Ibn Maajah. An-Nasaaee. Ahmad