Prayers for a Righteous Wife from the Sunnah
While the Sunnah does not specify a particular prayer for a wife, there are numerous general prayers that can be beneficial. Here are some of the most beautiful supplications:
- (O Allah, unify our hearts, mend our relationship, guide us to the paths of peace, and save us from darkness into light. Keep us safe from immorality, both openly and secretly. Bless our hearing, sight, hearts, spouses, and offspring. Accept our repentance, as You are the Most Accepting, Most Merciful. Make us grateful for Your blessings, acknowledging them as You desire, and complete them upon us.)
- (O Allah, I ask You for her goodness and the goodness of that which You have created her with, and I seek refuge in You from her evil and the evil of that which You have created her with.)
Prayers of Love and Affection for Your Wife
Here are some supplications that a husband may recite to foster love and closeness between him and his wife:
- O Almighty, unmatched in Your greatness, O Merciful, unmatched in Your compassion, O Powerful, unmatched in Your ability, I ask You through Your grace to instill love in my wife’s heart. O Allah, unite our hearts, make me loving towards her, and make her loving towards me, O Generous.
- O Allah, I ask You to distance us from Satan and grant us love, affection, and honesty between one another. O Allah, bless us with righteous offspring, and we ask for Your mercy and generosity to honor us and guide us towards each other.
- O Allah, grant us the love that brings us joy. Make our hearts rejoice in loving one another. Please do not show me any harm in her, O Generous. I entreat You to protect my wife and safeguard her heart and affection for me, O Generous.
- O Allah, You are One, the Unique, the Eternal, the Great. Make my wife’s love a blessing for me. beautify me in her eyes, conceal my flaws from her sight, and cloaked her imperfections from my view. Show us each other’s virtues and attributes.
- O Allah, ease all our affairs, divert any negativity from her, let me find joy in her presence, and allow her to find joy in mine. Help us find solace in one another, and grant me contentment with what You have bestowed upon me. Bless our union, O Allah.
- O Allah, bless me through my wife and instill love and mercy between us. Let her be the dearest of Your creations to me, success her in what pleases You. O Allah, make me joyful in her company and unite us in Your highest paradise alongside the Prophets and the righteous.
- O Allah, fill her heart with Your love, ease her path, shield her from envy, and protect her with Your watchful eye that never sleeps. O Allah, rectify our relationship and remove Satan from within it. This house has been established upon obedience to You; therefore, guard it against all harm.
Prayers for Success for Your Wife
A husband can also pray for his wife’s success, prosperity, and triumph with the following supplications:
- O Lord, grant success to my wife; be with her. I entrust her future to You; make it better than she desires, and write goodness in all her forthcoming affairs.
- O Allah, unite me and my wife in all that is good. Make me the comfort of her eyes and her the comfort of mine, and bless us in all our endeavors.
- O Allah, make me to my wife as she loves, and her to me as I love. Unite us in adherence to what You desire, and grant us righteous offspring according to our wishes and Your liking.
- O Allah, appoint for my wife success, guidance, abundance, and dignity. Preserve me for her and her for me, and let us inhabit wellness as our home; do not separate us, O Lord.
- O Allah, I beseech You to grant my wife success, provision, blessings, health, and a long life in obedience to You, O Lord.
- O Allah, do not let my wife’s efforts go to waste, nor demolish her dreams or ambitions. Grant her success, for success comes from You, and facilitate her affairs, for facilitation is in Your hands.
- O Allah, I ask for success and guidance for my wife in all her matters, O Lord of the worlds.
- O Allah, bless my wife, open doors for her, facilitate her affairs, and guide her in every facet of her life, granting her the highest ranks and rewards. O Allah, please satisfy her desires and fulfill her needs.
Prayers for an Expectant Wife
A husband can support his wife during pregnancy by praying for her with the following supplications:
- O Allah, grant us joy by allowing us to see our child safe and sound between our arms. Protect my wife, O Lord.
- O Allah, grant me pious offspring through my wife. Help her through her pregnancy, ease her burdens, and alleviate her pain and effort. O Allah, You are the Forbearing, the Generous, the Responsive, provide my wife with what she desires and bring goodness and obedience to both of us.
- O Allah, ease what remains of my wife’s pregnancy and facilitate her delivery. Bless us with a child of good character and upbringing.
- O Allah, help my wife through this pregnancy and ease her delivery, enabling us to embrace our child with joy, O Lord of the worlds.
- O Allah, grant me piety through my wife, with blessings and righteousness revolving around our lives.
- O Allah, make the remainder of my wife’s pregnancy easy for her, alleviate her delivery pains, and grant us the joy of holding our newborn, O Lord of the worlds.
Prayers for a Sick Wife
A husband stands by his wife during her moments of vulnerability and illness by praying for her healing with the following supplications:
- (Remove the affliction, O Lord of mankind, and heal her. You are the Healer, and there is no healing except Your healing—healing that leaves no trace of illness.)
- O Allah, bless the life of my wife, clothe her in health, and heal her from every ailment and distress. O Allah, may I be reunited with her in the highest paradise, filled with Your glory. Grant my wife joy and relief, security, and faith in every blink of the eye and every heartbeat.
- O Allah, You restore the sick to health and respond to the prayer of the distressed. Heal her and alleviate her suffering, returning her to health. O Allah, heal my wife and all sick Muslims.
- O Allah, the Healer, grant my wife healing, a healing that leaves no trace. Keep her free from all pain and suffering, O Lord.
- O Lord of mankind, remove the affliction and heal, for there is no healing except Your healing. Heal my wife promptly and completely, and restore her to health with haste, O Lord.
- My Lord, adversity has touched my wife, and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful. Heal her, pardon her, and let her illness count among her good deeds, O You Who are the Most Merciful of the merciful.
- O Allah, what the doctors cannot accomplish, You are the Lord of doctors and nothing is beyond Your capability. Heal my wife, and all who have tasted pain or illness, and grant them swift healing, for You are the Most Merciful of the merciful.
Prayers for a Deceased Wife
Faithfulness is a beautiful trait that defines the marital relationship. This fidelity persists even after one spouse has passed away, allowing a husband to pray for his deceased wife with the following supplications:
- (O Allah, forgive our living and our dead, our young and our old, our male and female, our present and our absent. O Allah, whoever among us You keep alive, let them live in faith; and whoever You take from us, take them in a state of Islam.)
- O Allah, feed her from Paradise, provide for her from Paradise, show her her place in Paradise, and say to her, “Enter from any door you wish,” O Lord of the worlds.
- O Allah, forgive her, have mercy on her, grant her wellness, pardon her, honor her resting place, enlarge her entrance, and wash her with water, snow, and hail, purifying her from sins as a white garment is purified from dirt. O Allah, return her soul to You, pleased and pleasing, and admit her into Your gardens with Your righteous servants.
- O Allah, she is in Your protection and the security of Your abode, shield her from the trials of the grave and the torment of the Fire. You are the Supplier of promises; forgive her and have mercy on her, indeed, You are the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
- O Allah, take her from the tight graves and from the lairs of the worms into Your gardens of eternity, for there is no deity but You, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Embrace her in Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful. If she was among the good-doers, increase her good deeds, and if she was among the wrongdoers, overlook her misdeeds.
Prayers for Your Wife on Friday
Friday is a day blessed with a moment when no prayer goes unanswered. A husband should seize this opportunity to pray for his wife with the following supplications:
- O Allah, on this blessed day, I ask You to make my wife obedient to me, keep her steadfast in our companionship, and let her assist me in obeying You. Let me be a source of support for her in worship, and make her a righteous wife for me.
- O Allah, on this blessed Friday, unite my wife and me in goodness, and merge our hearts. Grant us contentment and peace of mind, and keep us away from worry, laziness, and sorrow. O Allah, let me be to her a father, a brother, and let her be for me a wife, a mother, a sister, and a refuge from all evil.
- O Allah, I ask You on this blessed day to bless our offspring as You blessed the lineage of Ibrahim (peace be upon him). Grant my wife patience in her duties and make her a source of comfort to me, just as You made the fire a comfort to Ibrahim (peace be upon him), and remove Satan from between us.
- O Allah, on this blessed Friday, grant my wife the life of the righteous and the companionship of the good. Keep her away from bad company and protect her from every evil eye. Assist her in her worship and improve her acts of devotion, multiply her good deeds, ignore her faults, and protect her as You protect Your faithful servants.
Prayers for Your Wife in Ramadan and on Laylat al-Qadr
Ramadan is a season of immense goodness when sins are forgiven, needs are met, and supplications are answered. A husband may pray for his wife during Ramadan and on Laylat al-Qadr with the following supplications:
- My Lord, let the month of Ramadan arrive for my wife while You are pleased with her. Make it a month where her sins transform into good deeds and her worries into joys. O Allah, give her what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor has any heart conceived, O Lord.
- O Allah, You are the Pardoning One who loves forgiveness; pardon my wife and grant her Laylat al-Qadr, making her among those freed from the Fire. May You protect her and bless her in Ramadan, allowing her to gain health, well-being, and a long life.
- My Lord, do not let Ramadan leave until You have improved my wife’s condition, filling her life with happiness and tranquility, achieving all that she desires, for You hold all good in Your hands, and You are capable of everything.
- O Lord, she is my wife and beloved; bless her in the last ten nights of Ramadan and write her name among those saved from the Fire, and may she be, O Allah, among the inhabitants of Paradise.
Prayers for Your Wife on the Day of Arafah
The Day of Arafah is a blessed day with immense merit, making it appropriate for Muslims to pray for themselves and those close to them during this time, including their wives. A husband can pray for her with the following supplications on this auspicious day:
- O Allah, on this blessed day, make my wife among Your righteous servants who adhere to Your commands and follow the Sunnah of Your Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). O Allah, forgive her sins and purify her heart. Beautify me in her sight and her in mine. O Allah, do not separate us, and preserve her for me, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of Glory and Honor.
- My Lord, on this blessed day, bring my wife closer to You, instill honesty in her words, and guide her in the paths that please You. O Allah, overlook her faults, fill her life with happiness, and keep sadness and worry away from her. Let her avoid everything that disturbs her peace.
- O Allah, I ask You by Your greatest name on the Day of Arafah to guide me, guide my wife and children, and make us of Your righteous servants. Grant us a good ending and shade us under Your Throne on the Day when there is no shade except Yours. Bestow upon us love and affection for each other, and bless us with mutual compassion and devotion.
- O Allah, on this blessed day, I entrust You with my wife’s heart and sight. You are the One who never loses a trust; protect them for me as You safeguard Your righteous servants. O Allah, grant her joy in my presence, and let me find happiness in her companionship in this world and the Hereafter. I ask for Your mercy upon us, O Most Merciful of the merciful.