Everyday Supplications

Text and Translation

Ibn Babawayh reports Imam al-Sadiq (a) as saying: any servant who repeats the following seven times every day, the Fire will ask Almighty Allah to protect him against it:

اَسْئَلُ اللّٰهَ الْجَنَّةَ وَ اَعُوْذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ النَّارِ

ASALUL LAAHAL JANNATA WA A-U'ZU BILLAAHI MINAN NAAR

I ask Allah for Paradise, and I seek refuge in Allah from the Fire.

Through another valid chain, Imam al-Sadiq (a) is reported to have said: Allah will forgive any believer who commits forty grave sins every day and night but then feels remorse and prays for forgiveness with these words:

اَسْتَغْفِرُ اللّٰهَ الَّذِىْ لَاۤ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَ الْحَىُّ الْقَيُّوْمُ بَدِيْعُ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْاَرْضِ ذُوالْجَلَالِ وَالْاِكْرَامِ وَ اَسْئَلُهُ اَنْ يَّتُوْبَ عَلَىَّ

ASTAGHFIRUL LAAHAL LAZEE LAA ILAAHA ILLAA HUWAL HAYYUL QAYYOOM BADEE-U'S SAMAAWAATI WAL ARDI ZUL JALAALI WAL IKRAAM WA AS-ALUHU AY YATOOBA A'LAYYA

I seek the forgiveness of Allah, besides Whom there is no god, the Ever-living, the Self-subsisting, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Possessor of Majesty and Honor, and I ask Him to accept my repentance.

Through another valid chain, Imam al-Sadiq (a) is reported to have said: whoever repeats the following doxology seven times every day has thanked Almighty Allah as is due for past and future graces:

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ عَلٰى كُلِّ نِعْمَةٍ كَانَتْ اَوْ هِىَ كَاۤئِنَةٌ

ALHAMDU LILLAAHI A'LAA KULLI NI'MATIN KAANAT AW HIYA KAAA-INAH

Praise be to Allah for every blessing that has been, or that is to be.

Through another valid chain, Imam al-Sadiq (a) is reported to have said: whoever repeats the following twenty-five times every day, Allah will record for him rewards as many as the number of all believers past and future, erase from him that same number of sins, and raise him that many ranks:

اَللّٰهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ وَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَالْمُسْلِمِيْنَ وَ الْمُسْلِمَاتِ

ALLAAHUMMAGH FIR LIL MU'MINEENA WAL MU'MINAATI WAL MUSLIMEENA WAL MUSLIMAAT

O Allah, forgive the believing men and women, and the Muslim men and women.

Through another valid chain, Imam al-Sadiq (a) is reported to have said: whoever repeats the following litany ten times every day, Allah will ward off from him seventy kinds of tribulation, the easiest of which is distress — according to another narration, he will never be afflicted with poverty:

لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ اِلَّا بِاللهِ

LAA HAWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLAA BILLAAH

There is no power and no strength except with Allah.

Al-Kulayni, al-Tabrisi, and other scholars report through several chains, some acceptable (hasan) and others valid, that Imam al-Sadiq (a) said the Holy Prophet (s) used to repeat the following seventy times:

اَسْتَغْفِرُ اللهَ اَتُوْبُ اِلَى اللهِ

ASTAGHFIRUL LAAHA ATOOBU ILAL LAAH

I seek Allah's forgiveness; I repent to Allah.

In Kashf al-Ghummah and al-Amali by Shaykh al-Tusi, it is reported through a valid chain that the Holy Prophet (s) said: whoever repeats the following one hundred times every day will be secured against poverty and loneliness in the grave, granted richness, and will find the doors of Paradise opened before him:

لَاۤ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللهُ الْمَلِكُ الْحَقُّ الْمُبِيْنُ

LAA ILAAHA ILLAL LAAHUL MALIKUL HAQQUL MUBEEN

There is no god but Allah, the King, the Manifest Truth.

According to the narration in Thawab al-A'mal and al-Mahasin, this statement is instead repeated thirty times.