A Helpful Guide to Perform Duas for Your Parents

Showing love and respect for your parents is a central part of being a faithful Muslim.^{[1]
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Belal Elkadri
Islam Education Expert & Motivational Speaker

Expert Interview} Saying a dua for your parents is a thoughtful way to both honor and pray for them. Ahead you’ll find 10 duas you can say for the health and happiness of your parents, plus ones that ask for forgiveness or pray for them if they’re deceased.

Dua for Mercy for Parents

Perform this dua for your parents by reciting the following: “My Lord, have mercy upon them (parents) as they brought me up [when I was] small." The dua asks for your parents’ well-being and is pronounced “Rabbi irhamhuma kama rabbayani sagheera” in Arabic (رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا).

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Dua For Parents’ Happiness, Health, And Long Life

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The rub of mankind! Remove this disease and cure (him or her)! You are the great curer. There is no cure but through You, which leaves behind no disease.
- Pronunciation: Allahumma Rabban-nasi, adhhibil-ba’sa, washfi, Antash-Shafi, la shifa’a illa shifa’uka, shifaan la yughadiru saqaman.
- ‏اللهم رب الناس، أذهب البأس، واشف، أنت الشافي لا شفاء إلا شفاؤك، شفاءً لا يغادر سقماً.
- Benefits: This dua is a way you can feel closer to Allah by praying for your parents to continually enjoy good health and happiness in their lives.^{[2]
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Dua For Forgiveness For Parents

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Forgive me, my parents, and the believers on the day when the judgment will come to pass.
- Pronunciation: Rabbighfirli Waliwalidayya Walil Mumineen Yauma Yaqoomul Hisab.
- رَبَّنَا ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلْحِسَابُ.
- Benefits: Showing love and appreciation to your parents in Islam also means asking Allah to forgive them. You’re also seeking mercy and pardon for them at the same time.^{[3]
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Dua For Mercy For Parents

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My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small.
- Pronunciation: Rabbi irhamhuma kama rabbayani sagheera.
- رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا.
- Benefits: This dua seeks mercy from Allah for your parents. It prays for their well-being, and for them to experience comfort and ease in every part of their lives.^{[4]
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Dua To Shower Blessings on Parents

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Lord, inspire me to be thankful for the blessings You have granted me and my parents and to do good deeds that please You; admit me by Your grace into the ranks of Your righteous servants.
- Pronunciation: Rabbi awzi’ni an ashkura ni’matikal-latee an’amta ‘alayya wa ‘ala waalidayya wa an a’mala salihan tardhaahu wa adkhilnee birahmatika fee ‘ibaadikas-saliheen.
- رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَيَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَدْخِلْنِي بِرَحْمَتِكَ فِي عِبَادِكَ الصَّالِحِينَ.
- Benefits: This dua not only seeks blessings for your parents to enjoy but also asks Allah to help you become thankful for them and all your blessings.^{[5]
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Dua For Parents to Inspire Gratitude

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Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.
- Pronunciation: Rabbi awzi’ni an ashkura ni’matikal-latee an’amta ‘alayya wa ‘ala waalidayya wa an a’mala salihan tardhaahu wa aslih lee fee dhurriyyathee innee thubthu ilayka wa innee min-almuslimeen.
- رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَى وَالِدَيَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِي فِي ذُرِّيَّتِي إِنِّي تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ وَإِنِّي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ.
- Benefits: This dua is all about asking Allah to inspire you to have gratitude for your parents. It also focuses on being thankful for all your blessings in life, including the children you can one day have.^{[6]
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Dua For Parents and the Entire Ummah

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Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers the day the account is established.
- Pronunciation: Rabbanagh fir lee wa liwaalidaiya wa lilmu’mineena Yawma yaqoomul hisaab.
- رَبَّنَا ٱغۡفِرۡ لِي وَلِوَٰلِدَيَّ وَلِلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ يَوۡمَ يَقُومُ ٱلۡحِسَابُ.
- Benefits: This dua for forgiveness asks Allah to forgive you, your parents, and all Muslims on the day of judgment when all acts will be accounted for.^{[7]
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Dua from Parents to Recover from an Illness

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I ask Allah the mighty, Lord of the mighty throne, to cure you.
- Pronunciation: As’alullaha al-‘azeema rabbal ‘arshil ‘azeem an yashfiyaka.
- أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ.
- Benefits: This dua asks Allah to help your parents through an illness or assist in their recovery and healing.^{[8]
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Dua For Parents’ Protection and Health

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O Allah, grant healing to Your servant (name of the person) a healing that leaves no trace of illness.
- Pronunciation: Allahumma ashfi ‘abdaka (Name) shifaan laa yughadiru saqaman.
- اللَّهُمَّ أَشْفِ عَبْدَكَ (اسم الشخص) شِفَاءً لَا يُغَادِرُ سَقَمًا.
- Benefits: This dua for protection asks Allah to protect your parents so they stay safe from harm or illness.^{[9]
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Dua For Deceased Parents

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Forgive our living and our deceased, our present and our absent, our young and our old, our male and our female. O Allah, to whomsoever of us You givest life grant him life as a believer, and whomsoever of us You takest in death take him in death as a follower of Islam. O Allah, do not withhold from us the reward (of faith), and do not lead us astray after his death.
- Pronunciation: Allāhammaghfir li hayyinā wa mayyittinā, wa shāhidinā wa ghā ibinā, wa saghīrinā wa kabīrinā, wa dhakarinā wa unthanā. Allāhumma man ahyaitahū minnā, fa ahyihī ‘alal islām, wa man tawaffaitahū minnā, fatawaffahū ‘alal īman.
- اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِحَيِّنَا وَمَيِّتِنَا وَشَاهِدِنَا وَغَائِبِنَا وَصَغِيرِنَا وَكَبِيرِنَا وَذَكَرِنَا وَأُنْثَانَا اللَّهُمَّ مَنْ أَحْيَيْتَهُ مِنَّا فَأَحْيِهِ عَلَى الإِسْلاَمِ وَمَنْ تَوَفَّيْتَهُ مِنَّا فَتَوَفَّهُ عَلَى الإِيمَانِ ‏.
- Benefits: This dua helps you remember your parents who have passed away by showing them love and respect. It’s one of the ways you can ask dua by seeking Allah’s mercy and forgiveness for your parents, which helps honor their memory.^{[10]
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Dua For Parents To Enter Jannah

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And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction.
- Pronunciation: Rabbigh fir lee wa liwaa lidaiya wa liman dakhala baitiya mu’minanw wa lil mu’mineena wal mu’minaati wa laa tazidiz zaalimeena illaa tabaaraa.
- رَّبِّ ٱغۡفِرۡ لِي وَلِوَٰلِدَيَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيۡتِيَ مُؤۡمِنٗا وَلِلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ وَٱلۡمُؤۡمِنَٰتِۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارَۢا.
- Benefits: This dua asks that your deceased parents enter Jannah, or paradise, as a reward. You’re praying for your parents to be granted entry into Jannah for their good deeds during life.^{[11]
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