Family, Marriage & Children

Rabbanā wajʿalnā muslimayni laka wa min dhurriyyatinā ummatan muslimatan lak, wa arinā manāsikanā wa tub ʿalaynā, innaka Antat-Tawwābur-Raḥīm.

Our Lord, make us both submissive to You, and from our descendants a nation submissive to You. Show us our rites and accept our repentance. Indeed, You are the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful.

Said by Prophets Ibrahim and Ismaʿil ﷺ

[ Surah Al-Baqara 2:128 ]

Rabbi innī nadhartu laka mā fī baṭnī muḥarraran fataqabbal minnī, innaka Antas-Samīʿul-ʿAlīm.

My Lord, I have pledged to You what is in my womb, dedicated to Your service, so accept this from me. Indeed, You are the Hearing, the Knowing.

Said by The wife of ʿImran

[ Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:35 ]

Rabbi hab lī min ladunka dhurriyyatan ṭayyibah, innaka Samīʿud-duʿā'.

My Lord, grant me from Yourself good offspring. Indeed, You are the Hearer of supplication.

Said by Prophet Zakariyya ﷺ

[ Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:38 ]

Rabbighfir lī wa li'akhī wa adkhilnā fī raḥmatik, wa Anta arḥamur-rāḥimīn.

My Lord, forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your mercy, for You are the most merciful of the merciful.

Said by Prophet Musa ﷺ

[ Surah Al-A'raaf 7:151 ]

Rabbij-ʿal hādhal-balada āminan wajnubnī wa baniyya an naʿbudal-aṣnām.

My Lord, make this city secure and keep me and my sons away from worshipping idols.

Said by Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ

[ Surah Ibrahim 14:35 ]

Rabbij-ʿalnī muqīmaṣ-ṣalāti wa min dhurriyyatī, Rabbanā wa taqabbal duʿā'.

My Lord, make me an establisher of prayer, and from my descendants as well. Our Lord, and accept my supplication.

Said by Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ

[ Surah Ibrahim 14:40 ]

Rabbi innī wahanal-ʿaẓmu minnī washtaʿalar-ra'su shayban wa lam akun biduʿā'ika Rabbi shaqiyyā. Wa innī khiftul-mawāliya min warā'ī wa kānatimra'atī ʿāqiran fahab lī min ladunka waliyyā. Yarithunī wa yarithu min āli Yaʿqūb, wajʿalhu Rabbi raḍiyyā.

My Lord, my bones have weakened and my head has filled with white hair, and never have I been unanswered in my supplication to You, my Lord. And I fear my relatives after me, and my wife is barren, so grant me from Yourself an heir who will inherit from me and inherit from the family of Yaʿqub. And make him, my Lord, pleasing to You.

Said by Prophet Zakariyya ﷺ

[ Surah Maryam 19:4-6 ]

Rabbi lā tadharnī fardan wa Anta khayrul-wārithīn.

My Lord, do not leave me alone, and You are the best of inheritors.

Said by Prophet Zakariyya ﷺ

[ Surah Al-Anbiyaa 21:89 ]

Rabbanā hab lanā min azwājinā wa dhurriyyātinā qurrata aʿyunin wajʿalnā lil-muttaqīna imāmā.

Our Lord, grant us from among our spouses and offspring comfort to our eyes, and make us a leader for the righteous.

[ Surah Al-Furqaan 25:74 ]

Rabbi najjinī wa ahlī mimmā yaʿmalūn.

My Lord, save me and my family from what they do.

Said by Prophet Lut ﷺ

[ Surah Ash-Shu'araa 26:169 ]

Rabbi hab lī minaṣ-ṣāliḥīn.

My Lord, grant me a child from among the righteous.

Said by Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ

[ Surah As-Saaffaat 37:100 ]

Rabbanā wasiʿta kulla shay'in raḥmatan wa ʿilman faghfir lilladhīna tābū wattabaʿū sabīlaka wa qihim ʿadhābal-jaḥīm. Rabbanā wa adkhilhum jannāti ʿadninil-latī waʿadtahum wa man ṣalaḥa min ābā'ihim wa azwājihim wa dhurriyyātihim, innaka Antal-ʿAzīzul-Ḥakīm.

Our Lord, You have encompassed all things in mercy and knowledge, so forgive those who have repented and followed Your way, and protect them from the punishment of Hellfire. Our Lord, and admit them to the gardens of perpetual residence which You promised them, and whoever was righteous among their forefathers, their spouses and their offspring. Indeed, it is You who is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

Said by The angels who bear the Throne

[ Surah Ghafir 40:7-8 ]

Rabbi awziʿnī an ashkura niʿmatakal-latī anʿamta ʿalayya wa ʿalā wālidayya wa an aʿmala ṣāliḥan tarḍāhu wa aṣliḥ lī fī dhurriyyatī, innī tubtu ilayka wa innī minal-muslimīn.

My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favour which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to work righteousness of which You approve, and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.

[ Surah Al-Ahqaf 46:15 ]

Rabbighfir lī wa liwālidayya wa liman dakhala baytiya mu'minan wa lil-mu'minīna wal-mu'mināt, wa lā tazidiẓ-ẓālimīna illā tabārā.

My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer, and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin.

Said by Prophet Nuh ﷺ

[ Surah Nooh 71:28 ]

Bārakallāhu laka fi ‘l-mawhūbi lak, wa shakarta ‘l-wāhib, wa balagha ashuddah, wa ruziqta birrah. The reply of the person being congratulated is to say: Bārakallahu laka wa bāraka `alayk, wa jazākallāhu khayra, wa razaqakallāhu mithlah, wa ajzala thawābak.

May Allah bless you with His gift to you, and may you (the new parent) give thanks, may the child reach the maturity of years, and may you be granted its righteousness. The reply of the person being congratulated is to say: May Allah bless you, and shower His blessings upon you, and may Allah reward you well and bestow upon you its like and reward you abundantly

[ An-Nawawi, Kitdbul-'Athkarp. 349, and Sahihul-'Athkar2/7l3 by Saleem Al-Hilali. Hisn al-Muslim 145 ]

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to seek Allah's protection for Al-Hasan and Al-Husain by saying: U`īthukumā bikalimāti ‘llāhit-tāmmati min kulli shayṭānin wa hāmmah, wa min kulli `aynin lāmmah

I seek protection for you in the Perfect Words of Allah from every devil and every beast, and from every envious blameworthy eye.

[ Al-Bukhari4/119. Hisn al-Muslim 146 ]

Bārakallāhu lak, wa bāraka `alayk, wa jama`a baynakumā fī khayr.

May Allah bless you, and shower His blessings upon you, and join you together in goodness.

[ Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah and At-Tirmidhi. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 1/316. Hisn al-Muslim 190 ]

When any of you marries a woman or purchases a maid-servant then let him say: Allāhumma innī as'aluka khayrahā wa khayra mā jabaltahā `alayh, wa a`ūdhu bika min sharrihā wa sharri mā jabaltahā `alayh.

When any of you marries a woman or purchases a maid-servant then let him say : O Allah, I ask You for the goodness of her, and the goodness upon which You have created her, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of her, and from the evil upon which You have created her. If you purchase a camel then take hold of the top of its hump and say the same.

[ Abu Dawud 2/248 and Ibn Majah 1/617. See also Al-Albani, Sahih Ibn Majah 1/324. Hisn al-Muslim 191 ]

Bismillāh. Allāhumma jannibnash-Shayṭān, wa jannibish-Shayṭāna mā razaqtanā.

With the Name of Allah. O Allah, keep the Devil away from us, and keep the Devil away from that which You provide for us.

[ Al-Bukhari 6/141, Muslim 2/1028. Hisn al-Muslim 192 ]