๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ง Islamic Duas for Family โ Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
Below are 11 supplications for Family, presented with vowelized Arabic script, easy-to-read Latin transliteration, English translation, and explicit source & grading references.
Rabbana hab lana min azwajina wa dhurriyyatina qurrata aโyunin wajโalna lil-muttaqina imama
Our Lord, grant us from our spouses and our offspring comfort to our eyes, and make us a model for the God-conscious.
Reported Context & Reflection: The verse closes the description of โthe servants of the Most Mercifulโ: those who walk gently upon the earth, spend the night in prayer, neither waste nor kill. Their final request is not for their own rank but for their family โ and only then for responsibility over others.
My Lord, have mercy on them as they raised me when I was small.
Reported Context & Reflection: The preceding verse forbids saying even โuffโ to oneโs parents and commands lowering to them โthe wing of humility out of mercyโ. Only then does this supplication come โ asking for mercy is the last step, not the first.
Barakallahu laka fil-mawhubi lak, wa shakartal-Wahib, wa balagha ashuddahu, wa ruziqta birrah
May Allah bless what has been given to you, may you thank the Giver, may the child reach full strength, and may you be granted its devotion.
Not a prophetic saying but a statement of the successor al-แธคasan al-Baแนฃrฤซ, which an-Nawawฤซ explicitly recommends in al-Adhkฤr as a fine form of congratulation.
๐ รberliefert von al-แธคasan al-Baแนฃrฤซ ยท an-Nawawฤซ, al-Adhkฤr โ Kapitel: Der Glรผckwunsch zur Geburt eines Kindes
Bismillah. Allahumma jannibnash-shaytana wa jannibish-shaytana ma razaqtana
In the name of Allah. O Allah, keep Satan away from us and keep Satan away from what You grant us.
Reported Virtue: The Prophet ๏ทบ said: if a child is decreed for them thereby, Satan will never harm it.
๐ แนขaแธฅฤซแธฅ al-Bukhฤrฤซ, Kitฤb an-Nikฤแธฅ (von Ibn สฟAbbฤs) ยท an-Nawawฤซ, al-Adhkฤr โ Kapitel: Was man sagt, wenn man zu seiner Frau kommt
Barakallahu laka wa baraka alayka wa jamaโa baynakuma fi khayr
May Allah bless you, send blessing upon you, and join you both in good.
The pre-Islamic congratulation was โbir-rafฤสพ wal-banฤซnโ (harmony and sons). The Prophet ๏ทบ replaced it with this one โ without prescribing what the good should look like.
๐ Sunan Abฤซ Dฤwลซd & Sunan at-Tirmidhฤซ (von Abลซ Hurayra) ยท an-Nawawฤซ, al-Adhkฤr โ Kapitel: Der Glรผckwunsch zur Eheschlieรung
Allahumma inni asโaluka khayraha wa khayra ma jabaltaha alayh, wa aโudhu bika min sharriha wa sharri ma jabaltaha alayh
O Allah, I ask You for her good and the good of what You have made her disposed to, and I seek refuge in You from her ill and the ill of what You have made her disposed to.
Reported Context & Reflection: The Prophet ๏ทบ instructed that one place a hand on the wifeโs forehead and ask Allah for blessing. The supplication reckons from the outset with both โ the good and what will be hard.
๐ Sunan Abฤซ Dฤwลซd, Kitฤb an-Nikฤแธฅ (von สฟAmr ibn Shuสฟayb) ยท an-Nawawฤซ, al-Adhkฤr โ Kapitel: Was der Brรคutigam sagt
Rabbi-jโalni muqimas-salati wa min dhurriyyati, Rabbana wa taqabbal duโaโ. Rabbana-ghfir li wa li-walidayya wa lil-muโminina yawma yaqumul-hisab
My Lord, make me one who establishes the prayer, and from my offspring as well. Our Lord, accept my supplication. Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers on the Day the reckoning is established.
Reported Context & Reflection: Ibrฤhฤซm asks not to be allowed to pray but to become one who upholds the prayer โ someone in whom it stands. And he asks it as an old man to whom Ismฤสฟฤซl and Isแธฅฤq had only just been given.
Rabbi-jโal hadhal-balada aminan, wajnubni wa baniyya an naโbudal-asnam
My Lord, make this city secure, and keep me and my sons from serving idols.
Reported Context & Reflection: Ibrฤhฤซm โ the man who had smashed his peopleโs idols with an axe โ asks to be kept from serving them. As Ibrฤhฤซm ibn Adham put it: if he was not sure of himself, then who is?
Rabbi hab li min ladunka dhurriyyatan tayyibah, innaka Samiโud-duโaโ
My Lord, grant me from Yourself good offspring. You are indeed the Hearer of supplication.
Reported Context & Reflection: Zakariyyฤ came in to Maryam and found with her fruit out of season. He asked where it came from; she said: from Allah. โThere and then,โ says the Qurสพฤn, Zakariyyฤ called upon his Lord. He was old and his wife barren โ but he had just seen that the season is not an argument.
Rabbi inni nadhartu laka ma fi batni muharraran fa-taqabbal minni, innaka antas-Samiโul-Alim. Wa inni uโidhuha bika wa dhurriyyataha minash-shaytanir-rajim
My Lord, I have vowed to You what is in my womb, dedicated to You alone. So accept it from me; You are indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. And I place her and her offspring in Your protection from the accursed Satan.
Reported Context & Reflection: She had expected a son to serve in the temple; it was a girl, and she said, โand the male is not like the female.โ She keeps the vow all the same and asks for protection โ not only for the child but for her offspring. The Prophet ๏ทบ said every newborn is touched by Satan and cries for it โ except Maryam and her son. This supplication is the reason.
Rabbi awziโni an ashkura niโmatakal-lati anโamta alayya wa ala walidayya, wa an aโmala salihan tardah, wa aslih li fi dhurriyyati, inni tubtu ilayk, wa inni minal-muslimin
My Lord, dispose me to be grateful for Your favour which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do righteous work that pleases You. And make my offspring righteous for me. I turn to You in repentance, and I am one of the Muslims.
Reported Context & Reflection: The verse names the age explicitly: โuntil, when he reaches his full maturity and reaches forty years, he says โฆโ In the year of life when a person has both at once โ parents grown old and children growing up โ stands a supplication that takes in exactly those two directions.
๐ Koran, Sลซrat al-Aแธฅqฤf 46:15
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How many duas for Family are included on this page?
This collection includes 11 curated supplications for Family, each with Arabic text, transliteration, English meaning, and classical reference.
Can I recite these duas in English while learning the Arabic?
Memorizing and reciting prophetic and Quranic duas in their original Arabic carries special blessing, while pouring your heart out to Allah in your own language outside obligatory prayer postures is always welcome.
How are sources and authenticity grades displayed?
Every dua card transparently displays its classification (Quranic Verse, Sahih, Hasan, or Traditional Supplication) alongside exact citations such as Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or Imam an-Nawawฤซโs al-Adhkฤr.
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