Islamic Prayers – Golden Article

Islamic Supplications for Guidance

Muslims can turn to Allah -the Exalted- with specific supplications that aid in seeking guidance. These include:

(O Allah, I ask You for guidance, piety, chastity, and wealth).
(My Lord, assist me and do not let me be assisted against. Grant me victory and do not grant victory over me. Scheme for me and do not let them scheme against me. Guide me and ease guidance for me. Support me against whoever transgresses against me. O Lord, make me grateful to You, constantly remembering You, fearful of You, compliant to You, humble, repentant, and returning to You. Accept my repentance, cleanse my sin, answer my call, strengthen my argument, guide my heart, make my tongue steadfast, and remove any ill feelings from my heart).
O Allah, guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom You have favored – the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. O Allah, grant us success in following Your guidance and make our actions pleasing to You.
O Allah, show us the truth as truth and grant us the ability to follow it. Show us falsehood as falsehood and help us to avoid it. Bestow upon us Your guidance and satisfaction.
O Allah, Turner of hearts, turn our hearts to Your religion. Guide us, establish us, grant us health, and forgive us.
O Allah, I ask You to provide me with guidance and correctness, and to keep me away from misguidance and confusion.
O Allah, aid me in managing my soul; grant it guidance and piety, and purify it, for You are the best to purify it.
O Allah, decree guidance for me in all my affairs and make me compassionate, generous, gentle, and kind.
O Allah, You are the One who created me and know me better than I know myself. I ask You, my God, to guide me along the straight path and inspire me towards righteousness.
(My Lord, assist me and do not assist against me, grant me victory and do not grant victory over me, scheme for me and do not let them scheme against me. Guide me and ease guidance for me, and support me against whoever transgresses against me. O Lord, make me grateful to You, constantly remembering You, fearful of You, compliant to You, humble, repentant, and returning to You. Accept my repentance, cleanse my sin, answer my call, strengthen my argument, guide my heart, make my tongue steadfast, and remove any ill feelings from my heart).

Islamic Supplications for Forgiveness of Sins

There are certain supplications that assist Muslims in seeking forgiveness for their sins and acceptance of their repentance, including:

(Our Lord, forgive us our sins, and expiate our misdeeds, and grant us a goodly death among the righteous).
(Our Lord, indeed we have heard a caller calling to faith, saying: “Believe in your Lord,” and we have believed. Our Lord, forgive us our sins, and expiate our misdeeds, and let us die amongst the righteous).
(Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith, and let not in our hearts any resentfulness toward those who have believed. Our Lord, indeed You are Kind and Merciful).
(O Allah, You are my Lord; there is no deity except You. You created me, and I am Your servant, and I am steadfast in my covenant with You as much as I can. I seek refuge in You from the evil of that which I have done. I acknowledge Your favors upon me, and I confess my sins. So forgive me; for none forgives sins except You).
(My Lord, forgive me my error and ignorance, and my excesses in my affairs, and that which You know better than I. O Allah, forgive my mistakes, my intentional and unintentional sins, and all of that which is before me and after me, that which I conceal and that which I reveal. You are the Promoter and You are the Deferrer, and You have power over all things).
(O Allah, I have wronged myself a great deal, and none forgives sins except You, so grant me forgiveness from Yourself and have mercy on me, for You are the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful).
(O Allah, forgive me what I have advanced and what I have deferred, what I have kept secret and what I have disclosed, and that which I have transgressed beyond, and that which You know better than I. You are the Promoter and You are the Deferrer; there is no deity except You).
(O Allah, I ask You, O Allah, that You are the One, the Only, the Eternal, who has not begotten nor was born; there is none comparable to You, to forgive me my sins; You are the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful).
(O Allah, we ask You for the causes of Your mercy, the firm resolutions of Your forgiveness, safety from every sin, profit from every good, entry into Paradise, and rescue from the Fire).
O Allah, I ask You, O Allah, that You are the One, the Only, who has not begotten nor was born, and there is none comparable to You, to forgive me my sins; You are the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
O Allah, overlook our faults and forgive our slips, and expiate our sins.
Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers, and overlook our mistakes; indeed, You are the Generous, the Most Generous.

Islamic Supplications for Success

Muslims can turn to Allah -the Exalted- with special prayers that help them succeed in their academic and professional lives, including:

(O Allah, I ask You for all good, immediate and delayed, that I know of and that which I do not. I seek refuge in You from all evil, immediate and delayed, that I know of and that which I do not. O Allah, I ask You for the best of that which Your servant and Your Prophet have asked You, and I seek refuge in You from the worst of that which Your servant and Your Prophet have sought refuge from. O Allah, I ask You for Paradise and for whatever brings me closer to it in word or deed, and I seek refuge in You from the Fire and what brings me closer to it in word or deed. I ask You to make every decree You have decreed for me good).
O Allah, I ask You to grant me success in all my affairs and to write for me righteousness, guidance, and success.
O Allah, I ask You for success in this world and salvation in the Hereafter.
O Allah, grant me success in all my matters and rectify my condition, and guide my steps.
O Allah, provide me with success from You and bless my work and my time, and make the outcome of my affairs good.
O Allah, I ask You for righteousness, salvation, support, guidance, and success in every matter, big and small.

Islamic Supplications for Facilitation

There are supplications that Muslims utilize to ease their affairs and increase blessings in them, including:

(O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, with Your mercy, I seek help. Rectify all my affairs, and do not leave me to myself even for the blink of an eye).
(O Allah, rectify for me my religion, which is my safeguard for all my affairs, rectify for me my worldly life, in which is my livelihood, and rectify for me my Hereafter, in which is my return. Make this life an increase for me in every good, and make death a relief for me from every evil).
(O Allah, there is no ease except that You make it easy, and You make sorrow easy whenever You will).
O Allah, ease all my matters and rectify me, and guide me to what is best for me, O my God and my Master, and O Owner of Glory and Honour.
O Allah, decree ease for my life, and keep all hardship away from me; You are the Most High, the Omnipotent.
O Allah, guide us to righteousness and piety, and ease for us the work that You love and are pleased with.

Islamic Supplications for Relief from Worries

There are numerous supplications that help in relieving hardships and removing worries. These include those derived from the noble prophetic traditions, as well as those commonly used among Muslims:

(There is no deity except You; You are Glorified; indeed, I have been among the wrongdoers).
(O Allah, indeed I am Your servant, the son of Your servant, the son of Your maidservant. My forelock is in Your hand. Your decree upon me is continuous, and Your judgment upon me is just. I ask You by every name You have, that You named Yourself with or that You have revealed in Your Book, or taught to any of Your creation, or kept to Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen with You, to make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the removal of my sorrow, and the departure of my worry).
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and sorrow, weakness and laziness, cowardice and miserliness, the burden of debts, and the dominance of men).
(There is no deity except Allah, the Mighty, the Forbearing. There is no deity except Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, the Lord of the Glorious Throne. There is no deity except Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and the Lord of the mighty Throne).
(O Allah, I hope for Your mercy, so do not leave me to myself for the blink of an eye and rectify all my affairs; there is no deity except You).
O Allah, I ask You to relieve my worry and remove my distress and turn away from me that which grieves me.
O Allah, keep worries away from me and turn away from me sorrows, and let me pass away while You are pleased with me.
O Allah, grant me happiness and joy in this world and the Hereafter, and be pleased with me, and admit me by Your mercy among Your righteous servants, and keep away from me what harms me and occupies my mind, saddens my heart, and constricts my chest.

Short Religious Supplications

Below are some short, authentic supplications from the noble prophetic tradition:

(O Allah, Turner of hearts, turn our hearts towards Your obedience).
(O Allah, I have wronged myself much, and none forgives sins except You, so forgive me from Yourself with forgiveness; indeed, You are the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful).
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and sorrow, and I seek refuge in You from weakness and laziness, and I seek refuge in You from cowardice and miserliness, and I seek refuge in You from the burden of debts and the oppression of men).
(My Lord, forgive me my sins on the Day of Judgment).
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evil of my hearing, the evil of my sight, the evil of my tongue, the evil of my heart, and the evil of my desires).
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evils of morals, actions, desires, and afflictions).
(O Allah, benefit me with what You have taught me, teach me what benefits me, and increase me in knowledge).
(O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, guide me, and provide for me).
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evil of what I have done and the evil of what I have not done).
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the removal of Your blessings, the change of Your health, the suddenness of Your punishment, and all of Your wrath).
(O Allah, guide me and make me steadfast).
(O Allah, I ask You for guidance, piety, chastity, and wealth).
(The Messenger of Allah -peace be upon him- used to seek refuge from the severity of calamity, the bitterness of distress, the evil of judgment, and the rejoicing of enemies).
(O Allah, indeed I seek refuge in You from inability and laziness, cowardice and miserliness, and old age, and I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, and I seek refuge in You from the trials of life and death).
(O Allah, grant us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire).