Prayers for Expanding Livelihood in the New Year
Muslims are encouraged to seek God’s mercy through prayer for their needs. Here are some recommended prayers for increasing sustenance as the new year begins:
- O Allah, I ask You to make this year one of goodness and abundance. Grant us blessings within it and bestow upon us generous provisions. Make it a year of relief for all and a time of prosperity. O Most Merciful, pour out Your blessings upon us abundantly and enrich us with Your grace beyond our desires.
- O Allah, I beseech You for Your immense bounty. Grant me sustenance and blessing; provide for me abundantly and richly. Bestow upon me wealth, guidance, dignity, and piety. O Allah, You ordained my provision before my creation, so expand it for me, bless it, and make me among those who are blessed.
- O Allah, make my livelihood spacious, plentiful, and blessed. Let this year be a joyful start for me, assist me in earning lawful income, and prepare the means for it. Indeed, You are the One who can accomplish all this.
- O Allah, I ask for a year where circumstances improve for the better. Grant me guidance and wealth. If my sustenance is on earth, bring it forth; if it is in the heavens, let it descend, and if it is distant, draw it near and bless it, O Generous and Merciful.
Prayers for Easing Affairs in the New Year
Here are some prayers that Muslims can recite at the start of the new year to facilitate their affairs:
- O Allah, You have honored us with a new year. Let it be a beginning that eases our challenges, conceals our faults, and forgives our sins. Assist us in our obedience to You this year and make it a blessed, smooth year full of goodness, O Generous and Noble.
- O Allah, make every good easy for me this year and remove every evil away from me. Determine good for me wherever it may be and make me content with it, O Lord of the worlds. Guide me towards goodness, aid me in recognizing its path, and distance me from misguidance, as I have no strength or power except in You.
- O Allah, You are the Controller of affairs and the Ruler of this magnificent universe. Ease my matters and open my chest; I rely on You this year and entrust You with all my affairs, for You are the best of protectors.
- O Allah, I ask You to facilitate every difficulty we may face and remove every obstacle in our way. Make us among those who depend on You and find sufficiency in You. Verily, You do not reject the supplication of Your servants, so answer our prayers and rectify our conditions, O All-Knowing, O All-Powerful.
Prayers for Relieving Worries in the New Year
Here are some effective prayers for relieving worries as the new year approaches:
- O Allah, a year of our lives has passed, and a new one is upon us. Make this year a time when worries disperse, hardships are lifted, and doors are opened. Grant it blessings, ample provisions, and joy, and prevent it from being a year of hardship. You know our conditions, and You are free from our pleas. Make us among those who rejoice in Your mercy after suffering affliction, and let us share in every joy, for You are the Most Generous and Powerful.
- O Allah, we are burdened by worries that have narrowed our livelihoods, and all relief comes from You. Bestow relief upon us, just as You answered Noah’s prayer and listened to Jonah’s call. O Allah, relieve my distress, for You are the One who removed afflictions from Job and returned Joseph to Jacob after a long separation. Lessen our troubles and meet our needs, showing us compassion, O Most Merciful of the merciful.
- O Allah, relieve us from every worry and sorrow. Open our hearts and purify our souls. Make our hearts filled with Your remembrance, and our comfort found in Your closeness. Draw us near to You and help us attain Your pleasure. Let this year pass without complaints of worry or distress, by Your mercy and favor and Your infinite power.
- O Allah, your relief is near, and Your grace is vast. You know the conditions of Your servants. Bring us closer to every relief, joy, and ease. Alleviate our worries, facilitate our affairs, and be pleased with us. Change our situations for the better.
Prayers for Protecting the Family in the New Year
Muslims can recite the following prayers for safeguarding their families in the new year:
- O Allah, my family is dearer to me than anyone else; protect them with Your guardianship and envelop them with Your care. Take care of them with Your generosity and bounty. Facilitate their affairs, forgive their sins, conceal their flaws, and bring joy to their hearts. May they be happy, safe, and blessed this year, and heal the sick among them, provide for those facing hardships, guide those who are lost, and relieve the burdens of the distressed. Make them the best of people in this world and the Hereafter.
- O Allah, draw near to them all that is good and distance them from every evil. Make them among the happiest of Your creations and bring them closer to You. Elevate their status, ease their affairs, and pave their paths, for You are capable of all things.
- O Allah, do not turn me away as I call upon You and do not disappoint me as I seek Your favor. I ask You to protect my family from every illness and calamity, shield them from all harm, grant them health and wellness, and enduring protection in this life and the Hereafter.
- O Allah, keep them away from all harm, offenses, and misfortunes. Your truth declares that You answer the prayers of those who call. Please fulfill my prayer for my family with goodness. I pray that You enrich them with Your bounty and safeguard them in Your protection, for Your mercy and kindness are boundless. Grant them success, provision, honor, relieve their burdens, and ease their hardships. O Lord, do not separate us, and do not subject them to anyone who does not fear You, O Lord of the Worlds.
Prayers for Protecting the Children in the New Year
Here are the recommended prayers for safeguarding children as the new year commences:
- O Allah, my children are a part of my heart; protect them with Your mercy and kindness. I entrust them to You at all times. Keep them under Your guardianship, protection, and care, for You are the best of keepers.
- O Allah, guide them towards every good, ward off all evil, ease their paths, and make them satisfied with Your provision and decree. Let this year be filled with joy and bountiful blessings for them. Bestow upon them abundant goodness, let their lives be joyful, their provisions ample, and their undertakings wise. You are indeed the All-Hearing, Near, and Responsive to prayers.
- O Allah, make them among the best of Your creations. Guide them, open their hearts, and let them be upright followers of Your will, making them devoted worshippers to You. Fill their hearts with Your love, guide away their confusion, and direct them towards Your path of goodness and righteousness. Let the Quran be the spring of their hearts, illuminating their chests and comforting their worries and sadness. Keep their hearts attached to Your glorious Book, and may they be among those who crown their families with dignity in the Hereafter.
- O Allah, I ask You to grant them a prosperous life, a long life, sound judgment, and pure provisions.
- O Allah, make their hearts humble and their souls content. Teach them and increase their knowledge, and enlighten them with all that benefits them. Make them among the righteous and pious, O Mighty and Wise.
- O Allah, shower them with Your health and protection. Do not let them witness any adversity and grant them wellness in faith, this world, and the Hereafter. Keep them away from trials, both apparent and hidden.
- O Allah, distance them from disobedience as far as You distanced the east from the west. Grant them the life of the happy, and gather them with the prophets and companions of the righteous.
Prayers for Friends in the New Year
Here are some prayers Muslims can offer for their friends and loved ones as the new year begins:
- O Allah, make this year a blessed and happy one for my friends and loved ones. Let it be a year where their wishes come true and bring them closer to their happiness. Grant them joy in both this world and the Hereafter, O Lord of the Worlds. Enrich them, bless them, grant them health, guide them, and draw them closer to You, O Most Merciful of both worlds.
- O Allah, keep them away from sin and help them in attaining Your love and obedience. May this year be one of goodness for them and make them among those set free from their sins. Forgive their transgressions, lift their status, and make them among the inhabitants of paradise.
- O Allah, let their hearts be submissive to Your remembrance, and let their souls be content with Your decree. May their supplications be heard, their deeds accepted, and bless them in their wealth, lifespan, spouses, and children, and in every provision You have destined for them, O Provider, All-Knowing.
- O Allah, unite us in goodness, and let our friendship endure through obedience to You. Do not allow division between us, and keep away all harm from us while distancing us from those who wish ill upon us. Guide both me and them towards what You love and are pleased with.
- O Allah, grant us success in our lives, studies, work, and all aspects of this world, and render us among those who triumph in the Hereafter with the gardens You have promised Your righteous servants.
- O Allah, make my friends successful and fortunate. Grant them success and guide their affairs. Fulfill their aspirations and assist them in their worldly matters. Write for them prosperity in all their endeavors, and qualify them in the Hereafter to drink from the hands of Your Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and bestow upon them eternal bliss.