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In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. Praise is for Allah, Lord of the worlds, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, Master of the Day of Recompense. You alone we worship, and You alone we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those You have favoured, not of those who earned anger, nor of those who went astray.

Bismi-llāhi-r-raḥmāni-r-raḥīm. Al-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi-l-ʿālamīn. Ar-raḥmāni-r-raḥīm. Māliki yawmi-d-dīn. Iyyāka naʿbudu wa-iyyāka nastaʿīn. Ihdinā-ṣ-ṣirāṭa-l-mustaqīm. Ṣirāṭa-lladhīna anʿamta ʿalayhim ghayri-l-maghḍūbi ʿalayhim wa-lā-ḍ-ḍāllīn.

My Lord, I am truly in need of whatever good You send down to me.

Rabbi innī li-mā anzalta ilayya min khayrin faqīr

Our Lord, grant us mercy from Yourself, and prepare for us right guidance in our affair.

Rabbanā ātinā min ladunka raḥmatan wa-hayyiʾ lanā min amrinā rashadā

O Allah, make our end good in all matters, and protect us from disgrace in this world and from the punishment of the Hereafter.

Allāhumma aḥsin ʿāqibatanā fi-l-umūri kullihā wa-ajirnā min khizyi-d-dunyā wa-ʿadhābi-l-ākhirah.

O Allah, I ask You for steadfastness in the matter and resolve upon right guidance. I ask You for what makes Your mercy certain and for the firm means of Your forgiveness. I ask You for gratitude for Your favour and excellence in worshipping You. I ask You for a sound heart and a truthful tongue. I ask You for some of the good that You know, I seek refuge in You from the evil that You know, and I seek Your forgiveness for what You know. Truly, You are the Knower of the unseen.

Allāhumma innī asʾaluka-th-thabāta fi-l-amri wa-l-ʿazīmata ʿalā-r-rushdi, wa-asʾaluka mūjibāti raḥmatika wa-ʿazāʾima maghfiratika, wa-asʾaluka shukra niʿmatika wa-ḥusna ʿibādatika, wa-asʾaluka qalban salīman wa-lisānan ṣādiqan, wa-asʾaluka min khayri mā taʿlamu, wa-aʿūdhu bika min sharri mā taʿlamu, wa-astaghfiruka limā taʿlamu, innaka anta ʿallāmu-l-ghuyūb.

O Allah, I ask You for all good, what comes soon and what comes later, what I know of it and what I do not know. I seek refuge in You from all evil, what comes soon and what comes later, what I know of it and what I do not know. O Allah, I ask You for the best of what Your servant and Your Prophet asked You for, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of what Your servant and Your Prophet sought refuge from. O Allah, I ask You for Paradise and whatever brings one closer to it, in word or deed, and I seek refuge in You from the Fire and whatever brings one closer to it, in word or deed. And I ask You to make every decree You have decreed for me good.

Allāhumma innī asʾaluka mina-l-khayri kullihi ʿājilihi wa-ājilihi, mā ʿalimtu minhu wa-mā lam aʿlam, wa-aʿūdhu bika mina-sh-sharri kullihi ʿājilihi wa-ājilihi, mā ʿalimtu minhu wa-mā lam aʿlam. Allāhumma innī asʾaluka min khayri mā saʾalaka ʿabduka wa-nabiyyuka, wa-aʿūdhu bika min sharri mā ʿādha minhu ʿabduka wa-nabiyyuka. Allāhumma innī asʾaluka-l-jannata wa-mā qarraba ilayhā min qawlin aw ʿamalin, wa-aʿūdhu bika mina-n-nāri wa-mā qarraba ilayhā min qawlin aw ʿamalin, wa-asʾaluka an tajʿala kulla qaḍāʾin qaḍaytahu lī khayrā

O Allah, Lord of Jibrāʾīl, Mīkāʾīl and Isrāfīl, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, You judge between Your servants in what they used to differ over. Guide me, by Your permission, to the truth in that over which there is difference. Indeed, You guide whom You will to a straight path.

Allāhumma rabba Jibrāʾīla wa-Mīkāʾīla wa-Isrāfīla, fāṭira-s-samāwāti wa-l-arḍi, ʿālima-l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādati, anta taḥkumu bayna ʿibādika fīmā kānū fīhi yakhtalifūna, ihdinī limā-khtulifa fīhi mina-l-ḥaqqi bi-idhnika, innaka tahdī man tashāʾu ilā ṣirāṭin mustaqīm.

O Allah, guide me and keep me on the right course. O Allah, I ask You for guidance and for rightness.

Allāhumma-hdinī wa-saddidnī, Allāhumma innī asʾaluka-l-hudā wa-s-sadād.

O Allah, I seek Your choice through Your knowledge, I ask You to give me ability through Your power, and I ask You of Your great bounty. for You are able and I am not; You know and I do not; and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if You know that this matter (here he names his need) is good for me in my religion, my livelihood and the outcome of my affair, then decree it for me, make it easy for me, and then bless me in it. And if You know that this matter (here he names his need) is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood and the outcome of my affair, then turn it away from me and turn me away from it, and decree what is good for me wherever it may be, and then make me content with it.

Allāhumma innī astakhīruka bi-ʿilmika, wa astaqdiruka bi-qudratika, wa asʾaluka min faḍlika-l-ʿaẓīm, fa-innaka taqdiru wa lā aqdir, wa taʿlamu wa lā aʿlam, wa anta ʿallāmu-l-ghuyūb. Allāhumma in kunta taʿlamu anna hādha-l-amra (wa yusammī ḥājatahu) khayrun lī fī dīnī wa maʿāshī wa ʿāqibati amrī, fa-qdurhu lī wa yassirhu lī thumma bārik lī fīh, wa in kunta taʿlamu anna hādha-l-amra (wa yusammī ḥājatahu) sharrun lī fī dīnī wa maʿāshī wa ʿāqibati amrī, fa-ṣrifhu ʿannī wa-ṣrifnī ʿanhu, wa-qdur liya-l-khayra ḥaythu kāna thumma arḍinī bih.

O Allah, Lord of Jibrāʾīl, Mīkāʾīl and Isrāfīl, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen, You judge between Your servants in what they used to differ about. Guide me, by Your permission, to the truth in what has been disputed. You guide whom You will to a straight path.

Allāhumma rabba Jibrāʾīla wa-Mīkāʾīla wa-Isrāfīl, fāṭira-s-samāwāti wa-l-arḍ, ʿālima-l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādah, anta taḥkumu bayna ʿibādika fīmā kānū fīhi yakhtalifūn, ihdinī lima-khtulifa fīhi mina-l-ḥaqqi bi-idhnik, innaka tahdī man tashāʾu ilā ṣirāṭin mustaqīm

My Lord, cause me to enter a sound entrance and cause me to exit a sound exit, and grant me from Yourself a supporting authority.

Rabbi adkhilnī mudkhala ṣidqin wa akhrijnī mukhraja ṣidqin wa-jʿal lī mil-ladunka sulṭānan naṣīrā.

Perhaps my Lord will guide me to the right path.

ʿAsā rabbī an yahdiyanī sawāʾa-s-sabīl.

I seek refuge with Allah from being among the ignorant.

Aʿūdhu bi-llāhi an akūna mina-l-jāhilīn.

O Allah, I ask You to guide me to the most right of my affairs, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of my own self.

Allāhumma innī astahdīka li-arshadi amrī, wa aʿūdhu bika min sharri nafsī.

O Allah, I ask You to guide me to the most upright of my affairs, and I seek Your protection from the evil of my own self.

Allāhumma innī astahdīka li-arshadi umūrī, wa astajīruka min sharri nafsī.

O Allah, choose what is best for me and choose for me.

Allāhumma khir lī wa-khtar lī

Perhaps my Lord will guide me to something nearer to right guidance than this.

ʿasā an yahdiyani rabbī li-aqraba min hādhā rashadā

O Allah, keep me on the right course and guide me.

Allāhumma saddidnī wa-hdinī