Prayers After Studying
Prayer holds a significant place in a Muslim’s life, offering vast opportunities for supplication. Each individual may pray using their own phrases and words. Below are some suggested prayers that can be recited after studying, among other occasions:
- (O my Lord, expand my chest for me, make my task easy for me, and remove the knot from my tongue so they may understand my speech).
- O Allah, I entrust to You all that I have read, memorized, and learned. I ask You to return it to me when I need it, for You are capable of all things.
- O Lord of the worlds, I place my trust in You and submit all my affairs to You. There is no refuge and no escape from You except to You.
- O Allah, nothing is easy except what You have made easy; make the difficult easy for me.
- O Allah, remind me of what I have forgotten, for there is no power and no strength except with Allah, the Most High, the Great.
- O Allah, I seek refuge in You from going astray or leading others astray in my studies, from slipping or causing others to slip, from wronging or being wronged, and from ignorance or being treated ignorantly.
- O Allah, do not let me return defeated, and do not let me leave empty-handed from Your abundant grace.
- O Allah, I ask You by every name that You have named Yourself or taught to any of Your servants to grant me success and provide for my achievements.
- O Allah, I entrust to You what I have read, memorized, and understood.
- O Allah, ease my exam for me, O Lord.
Prayers Before Studying
Here are some general prayers that can be recited, along with others:
- O Allah, I ask You to make my memorization swift, bless my efforts and time, and ensure that my labors do not go in vain. Grant me success and ease my affairs.
- O Allah, bless me with a strong memory, swift retention, sharp intellect, and heightened ambition and determination.
- O Allah, assist me in my studies and guide me towards what is in the best interest of my affairs in this world and the Hereafter.
- O Allah, grant me quick memorization, strength in retention, and the ability to study under all circumstances.
- O Allah, benefit me with what You have taught me, and increase me in knowledge.
- O Allah, grant me a radiant mind and an open heart that eagerly seeks knowledge and academic achievement with desire and love.
- Make me, O my Lord, quick in memorization and sharp in intellect.
- O Allah, make what You have bestowed upon me in knowledge a proof for me and not against me, O Generous Lord.
- My Lord, increase me in knowledge, wisdom, patience, and understanding, and keep me away from forgetfulness and distraction.
- O Allah, grant me a strong memory, an aware mind, and an alert intellect.
- O Allah, distance me from sins and protect me from tribulations, both apparent and hidden.
- O Allah, You are my Lord, You are my God, and You are my Protector. Embrace me with Your mercy and guide me on the straight path.
- O Allah, grant me knowledge that pleases You.
- O Allah, bestow upon me swift memorization so that I do not forget what I retain nor be ignorant of what I understand.
Varied Prayers for Studying
Here are additional general prayers that one may find beneficial:
- O Allah, I put my trust in You and submit my affairs to You; there is no refuge and no escape from You except with You.
- My Lord, grant me a sincere entrance and a sincere exit, and provide for me a supportive authority from You.
- There is no deity but You, Glory be to You; indeed, I have been among the wrongdoers. O Living, O Sustainer, in Your mercy do I seek help.
- O Allah, I ask You to bestow upon me beneficial knowledge.
- O Allah, O Gatherer of people for a day of which there is no doubt, gather for me what I have lost.
- Praise be to Allah, who has guided us to this, and we would never have been guided had it not been for Allah’s guidance.
- O Allah, grant us success in all matters, fulfill all our aims, and elevate us to the highest ranks of knowledge.