Adhkār
Marriage & family
10 supplications
بَارَكَ اللَّهُ لَكَ، وَبَارَكَ عَلَيْكَ، وَجَمَعَ بَيْنَكُمَا فِي خَيْرٍ
Bāraka llāhu lak, wa bāraka ʿalayk, wa jamaʿa baynakumā fī khayr
May Allah bless you, send His blessing upon you, and join you both in goodness. (Congratulating the newly married.)
Abū Dāwūd 2130, at-Tirmidhī 1091اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ خَيْرَهَا وَخَيْرَ مَا جَبَلْتَهَا عَلَيْهِ، وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّهَا وَشَرِّ مَا جَبَلْتَهَا عَلَيْهِ
Allāhumma innī asʾaluka khayrahā wa khayra mā jabaltahā ʿalayh, wa aʿūdhu bika min sharrihā wa sharri mā jabaltahā ʿalayh
O Allah, I ask You for the good in her and the good of the nature You gave her, and I seek refuge in You from her evil and the evil of the nature You gave her. (Said on marrying, placing one's hand on the spouse's head.)
Abū Dāwūd 2160, Ibn Mājah 1918بِسْمِ اللَّهِ، اللَّهُمَّ جَنِّبْنَا الشَّيْطَانَ وَجَنِّبِ الشَّيْطَانَ مَا رَزَقْتَنَا
Bismillāh, Allāhumma jannibnā sh-shayṭāna wa jannibi sh-shayṭāna mā razaqtanā
In the name of Allah. O Allah, keep Satan away from us, and keep Satan away from what You grant us. (Said before marital intimacy.)
al-Bukhārī 141, Muslim 1434رَبِّ هَبْ لِي مِنْ لَدُنْكَ ذُرِّيَّةً طَيِّبَةً إِنَّكَ سَمِيعُ الدُّعَاءِ
Rabbi hab lī min ladunka dhurriyyatan ṭayyibah, innaka samīʿu d-duʿāʾ
My Lord, grant me from Yourself good offspring. You are indeed the Hearer of supplication.
Qur'an 3:38رَبِّ هَبْ لِي مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
Rabbi hab lī mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīn
My Lord, grant me one of the righteous. (The supplication of Ibrāhīm ﷺ for offspring.)
Qur'an 37:100رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا
Rabbanā hab lanā min azwājinā wa dhurriyyātinā qurrata aʿyunin wa-jʿalnā li-l-muttaqīna imāmā
Our Lord, grant us from among our spouses and offspring comfort to our eyes, and make us a model for the God-fearing.
Qur'an 25:74بَارَكَ اللَّهُ لَكَ فِي الْمَوْهُوبِ لَكَ، وَشَكَرْتَ الْوَاهِبَ، وَبَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُ، وَرُزِقْتَ بِرَّهُ
Bāraka llāhu laka fī l-mawhūbi lak, wa shakarta l-wāhib, wa balagha ashuddah, wa ruziqta birrah
May Allah bless you in the gift given to you; may you give thanks to the Giver, may the child reach full maturity, and may you be granted its devotion. (Congratulating a new parent.)
an-Nawawī: al-Adhkārأُعِيذُكُمَا بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ، مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ وَهَامَّةٍ، وَمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لَامَّةٍ
Uʿīdhukumā bi-kalimāti llāhi t-tāmmah, min kulli shayṭānin wa hāmmah, wa min kulli ʿaynin lāmmah
I seek protection for you both in the perfect words of Allah, from every devil and vermin, and from every evil eye. (The Prophet ﷺ said this over al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn — the du'ā said over one's children.)
al-Bukhārī 3371رَبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا
Rabbi-rḥamhumā kamā rabbayānī ṣaghīrā
My Lord, have mercy on them both as they raised me when I was small. (A supplication for one's parents.)
Qur'an 17:24جَزَاكَ اللَّهُ خَيْرًا
Jazāka llāhu khayrā
May Allah reward you with good. (Said to someone who has done you a kindness — whoever says it has given praise in full.)
at-Tirmidhī 2035