Duas for Decision-Making

Allahumma inni astakhiruka bi‘ilmika wa astaqdiruka biqudratika wa as’aluka min fadlikal-‘azim, fa innaka taqdiru wa la aqdir, wa ta‘lamu wa la a‘lam, wa anta ‘allamul-ghuyub. Allahumma in kunta ta‘lamu anna hadhal-amra khayrun li fi dini wa ma‘ashi wa ‘aqibati amri faqdurhu li wa yassirhu li thumma barik li fih, wa in kunta ta‘lamu anna hadhal-amra sharrun li fi dini wa ma‘ashi wa ‘aqibati amri fasrifhu ‘anni wasrifni ‘anhu waqdur liyal-khayra haythu kana thumma raddini bih

O Allah, I seek Your choice by Your knowledge and Your power by Your power. If this matter is good for my religion, life, and outcome, decree it, ease it, and bless it for me. If it is bad, turn it away from me and turn me away from it, and decree the good for me wherever it is, then make me pleased with it.

Allahumma ihdini wa saddidni

O Allah, guide me and keep me upright and correct.

Rabbi-shrah li sadri wa yassir li amri wahlul ‘uqdatan min lisani yafqahu qawli

My Lord, expand my chest, ease my task, and untie the knot in my tongue so people understand my speech.

Ihdinaṣ-ṣirāṭal-mustaqīm. Ṣirāṭal-ladhīna anʿamta ʿalayhim ghayril-maghḍūbi ʿalayhim wa-laḍ-ḍāllīn.

Guide us to the straight path: the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have earned anger, nor of those who are astray.

Rabbi adkhilnī mudkhala ṣidqin wa-akhrijnī mukhraja ṣidqin, wajʿal lī min ladunka sulṭānan naṣīrā.

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

Rabbanā ātinā min ladunka raḥmah, wa-hayyiʾ lanā min amrinā rashadā.

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

Rabbi hab lī ḥukman wa alḥiqnī biṣ-ṣāliḥīn. Wajʿal lī lisāna ṣidqin fil-ākhirīn. Wajʿalnī min warathati jannatin-naʿīm.

My Lord, grant me wisdom and join me with the righteous. And grant me an honorable mention among later generations. And make me among the inheritors of the Garden of Delight.

Allāhumma raḥmataka arjū, fa-lā takilnī ilā nafsī ṭarfata ʿayn, wa aṣliḥ lī sha’nī kullah, lā ilāha illā ant.

“O Allah, Your mercy is what I hope for, so do not leave me to myself even for the blink of an eye. Set right for me all of my affairs. There is no god but You.”

Allāhumma-ghfir lī dhanbī wa khaṭaʾī wa ʿamdī. Allāhumma innī astahdīka li-arshadi amrī, wa aʿūdhu bika min sharri nafsī.

O Allah, forgive my sins, my unintentional mistakes and my intentional mistakes. O Allah, I ask You to guide me to the soundest course in my affairs, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of my own soul.