🤍 Islamic Duas for Forgiveness — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
Below are 8 supplications for Forgiveness, presented with vowelized Arabic script, easy-to-read Latin transliteration, English translation, and explicit source & grading references.
Allahumma anta Rabbi, la ilaha illa anta, khalaqtani wa ana abduk, wa ana ala ahdika wa wa’dika mastata’t, a’udhu bika min sharri ma sana’t, abu’u laka bi-ni’matika alayya wa abu’u bi-dhanbi, faghfir li fa-innahu la yaghfirudh-dhunuba illa ant
O Allah, You are my Lord. There is no god but You. You created me and I am Your servant. I keep Your covenant and Your promise as much as I can. I seek refuge in You from the evil I have done. I acknowledge Your favour upon me and I confess my sin. So forgive me, for none forgives sins but You.
Reported Context & Reflection: Narrated by Shaddād ibn Aws. In al-Adhkār, an-Nawawī places this supplication ahead of every other request for forgiveness — hence its name “Sayyid”, the master, the chief of them. It holds everything a supplication needs, in exactly this order: testimony, covenant, refuge, gratitude, and confession.
Reported Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever says it during the day with firm conviction and dies that day before evening is among the people of Paradise; and whoever says it at night with firm conviction and dies before morning is among the people of Paradise.”
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6306, Kitāb ad-Daʿawāt · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Der Herr der Vergebungsbitten
Rabbana zalamna anfusana wa in lam taghfir lana wa tarhamna lanakunanna minal-khasirin
Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves. If You do not forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall surely be among the losers.
Reported Context & Reflection: Both Iblīs and Ādam erred. The difference is not in the error but in what followed: Iblīs laid the blame on Allah (“because You led me astray”), while Ādam took it upon himself. These few words are why humankind carried on.
Rabbi-ghfir li wa li-walidayya wa liman dakhala baytiya mu’minan wa lil-mu’minina wal-mu’minat
My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer, and the believing men and women.
Reported Context & Reflection: It is Nūḥ’s last recorded request after 950 years of calling that almost no one answered. At the end he widens it from himself to his parents, to the guests of his house, and finally to all believers of every age — including those he will never see.
📚 Koran, Sūrat Nūḥ 71:28
A Hundred Times of Forgiveness a Day
Sahih (Authentic)
أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ
Astaghfirullaha wa atubu ilayh
I seek Allah’s forgiveness and turn to Him in repentance.
Reported Context & Reflection: It is the man whose past and future faults were forgiven who asks forgiveness a hundred times a day. The number therefore marks not guilt but nearness.
Reported Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said: “At times a veil comes over my heart, and I seek Allah’s forgiveness a hundred times a day.”
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Kitāb adh-Dhikr (von al-Agharr al-Muzanī / Abū Hurayra) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Der Vorzug der Vergebungsbitte
Rabbana la tu’akhidhna in nasina aw akhta’na. Rabbana wa la tahmil alayna isran kama hamaltahu alal-ladhina min qablina. Rabbana wa la tuhammilna ma la taqata lana bih. Wa’fu anna waghfir lana warhamna, anta Mawlana fansurna alal-qawmil-kafirin
Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake. Our Lord, do not lay upon us a burden like the one You laid upon those before us. Our Lord, do not load us with what we have no strength for. Pardon us, forgive us and have mercy on us. You are our Protector, so help us against the disbelieving people.
Reported Virtue: Muslim narrates: to each one of these requests Allah said “I have done so” (qad faʿalt).
Rabbana innana amanna faghfir lana dhunubana wa qina adhaban-nar
Our Lord, we have believed — so forgive us our sins and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.
Reported Context & Reflection: The verse that follows describes who speaks this way: the patient, the truthful, the obedient, those who spend — and those who seek forgiveness in the last hours of the night.
Rabbana-ghfir lana wa li-ikhwaninal-ladhina sabaquna bil-iman, wa la taj’al fi qulubina ghillan lil-ladhina amanu, Rabbana innaka Ra’ufun Rahim
Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith, and put no rancour in our hearts toward those who have believed. Our Lord, You are indeed Compassionate, Merciful.
Reported Context & Reflection: The verse closes a passage about the distribution of spoils — that is, about money, the most common occasion for rancour among believers. The request is aimed not at enemies but at what grows in one’s own heart against one’s own people.
My Lord, forgive and have mercy, and You are the best of those who show mercy.
Reported Context & Reflection: The last verse of Sūrat al-Muʾminūn, which opens with “Successful indeed are the believers.” After everything said about them in between, it ends in four words: forgive, have mercy.
📚 Koran, Sūrat al-Muʾminūn 23:118
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How many duas for Forgiveness are included on this page?
This collection includes 8 curated supplications for Forgiveness, 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-Nawawī’s al-Adhkār.
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