🧭 Islamic Duas for Guidance — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
Below are 5 supplications for Guidance, presented with vowelized Arabic script, easy-to-read Latin transliteration, English translation, and explicit source & grading references.
Reported Context & Reflection: The Prophet ﷺ taught these words to ʿAlī and said: “By guidance, keep in mind being guided on a road; and by sadād, the straightening of an arrow.” An arrow off by a single degree misses by further the longer the distance.
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Kitāb adh-Dhikr wa d-Duʿāʾ · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Bittgebete um Rechtleitung
Rabbana la tuzigh qulubana ba’da idh hadaytana wa hab lana min ladunka rahmah, innaka antal-Wahhab
Our Lord, let not our hearts deviate after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from Yourself. You are indeed the Bestower.
Reported Context & Reflection: Umm Salama reported that the Prophet ﷺ often swore: “By the One who turns the hearts.” She asked him about it; he answered that there is no heart which is not between two fingers of the Most Merciful. This supplication is the consequence: guidance is not something you receive once and then own.
Allahumma inni astakhiruka bi-ilmik, wa astaqdiruka bi-qudratik, wa as’aluka min fadlikal-azim, fa-innaka taqdiru wa la aqdir, wa ta’lamu wa la a’lam, wa anta allamul-ghuyub
O Allah, I seek Your choice by Your knowledge, and Your power by Your might, and I ask You of Your immense bounty. For You are able and I am not; You know and I do not; and You are the Knower of all that is hidden.
Reported Context & Reflection: Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh said: the Prophet ﷺ taught us istikhāra for all matters as he taught us a chapter of the Qurʾān. One first prays two voluntary units, then says this supplication, naming the specific matter within it.
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1166, Kitāb at-Tahajjud (von Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Das Istikhāra-Gebet
Rabbana atina min ladunka rahmatan wa hayyi’ lana min amrina rashada
Our Lord, give us mercy from Yourself and prepare for us right guidance in our affair.
Reported Context & Reflection: Young men who had to flee a ruler because they believed in one God, and withdrew into a cave. They had no plan for what came next — which is exactly what the request says: “prepare for us right guidance in our affair”. They slept three hundred and nine years.
Our Lord, we believe in what You have sent down and we follow the Messenger. So write us among the witnesses.
Reported Context & Reflection: The request of ʿĪsā’s disciples after declaring themselves his helpers. “Write us” is a request to be entered on a list — not to be seen, but to be recorded.
📚 Koran, Sūrat Āl ʿImrān 3:53
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How many duas for Guidance are included on this page?
This collection includes 5 curated supplications for Guidance, 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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