Prayer for Seeking Knowledge, Understanding, and Memorization
This article presents a collection of prayers that assist students in seeking help from Allah Almighty in their quest for knowledge and enhancing their understanding and memorization skills. Some of these prayers include:
- Allah Almighty states: (And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge).
- Allah Almighty says: (My Lord, grant me wisdom and join me with the righteous).
- O Allah, bestow upon us beneficial knowledge that brings us closer to You, aids us in our worldly lives, and relieves our solitude.
- O Allah, teach us what we are ignorant of, remind us of what we have forgotten, and open before us the blessings of the heavens and the earth, for You are All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
- O Allah, benefit us with what You have taught us, teach us what will benefit us, and increase us in knowledge and bless us with it.
- O Allah, open for us the doors of Your wisdom, write for us from Your mercy, and bestow upon us memory and understanding. Indeed, there is no knowledge for us except what You have taught us; You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
- O Allah, O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, grant me excellent memorization and quick understanding, and bless me with wisdom, knowledge, and patience, by the right of our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
- O Allah, illuminate my sight with the Book, expand my chest with it, employ my body through it, free my tongue with it, and strengthen my resolve with Your power, for there is no strength or power except through You, O Most Merciful of the merciful.
- O Allah, O Teacher of Moses, teach us, O Inspirer of Solomon, enlighten us, and O Granter of Luqman’s wisdom, grant us understanding and eloquence.
Prayers for Seeking Knowledge for Children
This section contains prayers that parents can recite for their children, asking Allah for proper upbringing, scientific strength, and the capability to acquire beneficial knowledge. Some notable prayers include:
- O Allah, teach my children what benefits them and allow them to benefit from what I have taught them, and increase their knowledge.
- O Allah, bring my children out of the darkness of ignorance and bless them with the light of understanding. Open their hearts to the knowledge of science, refine their morals with patience, ease the doors of Your blessings for them, and shower them with Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful.
- O Allah, grant them the openings known to the aware with Your wisdom, spread Your mercy upon them, and remind them of what they have forgotten, O Lord of Glory and Honor.
- O Allah, I ask You for their good upbringing and to instill in them the love for knowledge from a young age.
- O Allah, make knowledge and learning beloved to them, and strengthen their resolve to acquire this knowledge.
- O Allah, guide them to what is best for them and do not let worldly matters and pleasures distract them from seeking and acquiring knowledge.
Prayers for Family Members from Students of Knowledge
This segment includes prayers that a mother could invoke for her family and children, seeking success and excellence in their journey of knowledge. Among these prayers are:
- O Allah, I have children in school; grant them success in what is best for them and provide them with beneficial knowledge.
- O Allah, write for my children success and excellence, ease their matters in school, and assist them in their pursuit of knowledge.
- O Allah, I ask You for beautiful sustenance for them, and designate for them university specializations that will benefit them.
- O Allah, make them a source of pride for me, and bless me with their knowledge, efforts, and grades. O Allah, make them benefit from what they have learned.
- O Allah, make them guided leaders, not misguided nor leading others astray, by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful.
- O Allah, grant them clarity of thought, good company, and ease them in acquiring knowledge that will aid them in both religious and worldly matters.
Prayers for Steadfastness in Knowledge During Exams
Below is a collection of prayers that students can recite during exams, seeking Allah’s assistance in excelling and succeeding in them. Among these supplications are:
- (My Lord, expand my chest for me, ease my task for me, and untie the knot from my tongue so that they may understand my speech).
- (O Allah, nothing is easy except what You have made easy, and You make the difficult easy if You will).
- O Allah, remind me of what I have forgotten, safeguard what I have learned, and increase my knowledge.
- O Allah, I entrust to You what I have memorized and learned; restore it to me when I need it, and do not let me forget it, O Lord of the worlds.
- O Allah, bless me with knowledge, adorn me with patience, honor me with piety, and grace me with wellness.
- O Allah, I entrust You with what I have memorized, learned, and understood; restore it to me at the hour of need, and grant me a clear opening, O Light of the heavens.
- O Allah, I seek refuge in You from a heart that does not humble itself, from a prayer that is not heard, from a soul that is never satisfied, and from knowledge that does not benefit.
- O Allah, grant me the eloquence of the Prophets, the clarity of the Messengers, the quick inspiration of the closest Angels, and teach me the secrets of Your wisdom, O Ever-Living, O Sustainer.
- O Allah, bestow upon our Prophet Muhammad peace through a prayer that honors us with the light of understanding from the darkness of doubt and misconception, clarifies for us what is obscure until it is comprehended, opens to us the doors of the aware, and makes us among the knowledgeable and sincere scholars.
- Glory be to Allah, and all praise is due to Allah; there is no deity but Allah, and Allah is the Greatest; there is no strength or power except with Allah, the Most High and Mighty.
Prayers for Seeking Knowledge Despite Challenges
This part features a set of prayers that students may call upon in facing life’s challenges. Among these supplications are:
- (O Allah, 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 ongoing, and Your judgment upon me is just. I ask You by every name that is Yours, which You have named Yourself or 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 Quran the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the cure for my sadness, and the removal of my anxiety).
- O Allah, You who said and Your word is the truth: (Call upon Me; I will respond to you), make my supplications answered, grant me the ability to acquire knowledge, teach me what benefits me, benefit me with what You have taught me, and increase me in knowledge, deeds, understanding, and sincerity in my faith.
- O Allah, I ask You for ease and facilitation, for wholesome sustenance, and for acceptable deeds.
- O Allah, make our affairs easy, our studies facilitated, our provisions blessed, and aid us in completing and attaining knowledge.
- O Allah, grant me my requests, and grant me success in what You love and are pleased with; indeed, You know the treachery of the eyes and what the hearts conceal.