8.

2 MASNOON
DUAS

8.2.1 MASNOON
DUAS BY ASMA
HUDA

O Allah! Grant us understanding of Deen. (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

2


O Allah! Grant me an easy reckoning. (Al-Hakim)

O Allah! The One who turns the hearts, make my heart steadfast and firm upon Your Deen. (AtTirmidhi)

4






O Allah! The One who turns the hearts, turn my heart towards Your obedience. (Sahih Muslim)

5

O Allah! Inspire my heart to guidance and save me from the evil of my nafs (soul). (At-Tirmidhi)

O Allah! Help us in the severity and swoon of death. (Al-Tirmidhi)

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O Allah! You are the One who pardons (overlooks), You love to pardon, so pardon me. (Al-Tirmidhi)

8


O Allah! Indeed I, I ask of You, guidance and piety and chastity and to be free of depending on
anyone (except you). (Sahih Muslim)

9

O Allah! I ask you for beneficial knowledge, pure provision and acceptable deeds. (Mishkat)

10

O Allah! Expand for me Your provision till my old age and till the end of my life. (Al-Hakim)

11

O Allah! Make sufficient for me what is halal (lawful) and keep me away from what is haram
(unlawful) and enrich me with Your Favours so that I am dependent upon no one but You. (AtTirmidhi)

12

O Allah benefit me through what you teach me and teach me what is beneficial for me and increase
me in knowledge. (Ibn-Majah)

13

O Allah! Indeed I, I seek refuge in You from a bad character (and manners) and from disliked deeds,
desires and illnesses. (At-Tirmidhi)

14

O Allah! Keep me alive (in a state of) humbleness and grant me death in (a state of) humbleness
and gather (resurrect) me in the company of the humble ones. (Ibn Abi Shebah)

15




O Allah! Grant my nafs (soul) piety and purify it, for You are The Best of the ones to purify it (as) You
are its Guardian and Master. (Sahih Muslim)

16

O Allah! Make me content upon what you have granted me and Bless me in it; and be The Best
Protector (and Guardian) for me (in my absence) of whatever is hidden from me. (Al-Hakim)

17

O Allah! I ask of You Your love, the love of whoever loves You and the love of the deed which will
draw me in attaining Your love. (At-Tirmidhi)

18

O Allah! Indeed I ask You of sound health, chastity, trustworthiness, good character and
contentment on whatever is decreed. (Mishkat)

19

O Allah! Indeed I, I seek refuge in You from poverty, any lessening in my means, and from
humiliation; and I seek refuge in You that I wrong anyone or am wronged. (An-Nasa'i)

20



O Allah! Indeed I seek refuge in You from severe trials and hardships, to be overtaken by
wretchedness, and bad fate and the rejoicing of enemies. (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

21

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the decline of Your blessings, the changing of my state of wellbeing, the suddenness of Your punishment and any kind of displeasure from You. (Sahih Muslim)

22

O Allah! I hope for Your mercy, so don not entrust me to myself (nafs) even for a moment, and
rectify all my affairs. There is no God but You.(Abu-Dawud)

23

O Allah! I seek Your protection from knowledge that is not beneficial, and from a heart that does not
fear, and from a soul that is not satiated and from a prayer that is not answered. (Sahih Muslim)

24

O Allah! Make me one who is most patient and grateful; and make me small in my own eyes but
great in the eyes of others. (Hisn-e-Haseen)

25







O Allah! Indeed I, I seek refuge in You from an evil day, an evil night, an evil moment, an evil
companion and from an evil neighbour (in the place of residence). (At-Tabarani)

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O Allah! Forgive me my faults, my ignorance, and exceeding in my matters and (forgiveness) in that
which You have more knowledge of than me. O Allah! Forgive me my sins done in jest, those done
knowingly, those done mistakenly, those done intentionally and all those (shortcomings) that are
within me. (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

27




O Allah! Indeed I ask You of every kind of good, the hastened one (of the world) and the delayed
one (of the hereafter) from that which I know and that I do not know; and I seek refuge in You from
every kind of evil the hastened one (of the world) and the delayed one (of the hereafter) from that
which I know and that I do not know. (Ibn Majah)

28





O Allah! Purify my heart from hypocrisy, my deeds from any kind of Ria (show off), my tongue from
lying and my eye from treachery. For indeed only You know the treachery of the eyes and what lays
hidden in the breasts. (Al-Baihaqi)

29

O Allah! Indeed I ask You of Paradise and of that deed or speech that will be a means of drawing
near to it; and I seek refuge in You from the fire and from that deed or speech that will be a means
of drawing near to it; and I ask You that You make whatever You have decreed for me a means of
good. (Al-Hakim)

30






O Allah! Grant me Your love, and the love of a person whom my loving him will be of benefit to me
near You. O Allah! Whatever You have granted me from what I love, make it a means of strength for
me to use in the way You love. O Allah! Whatever love (of things) You have removed from me then
Grant in its place the love (of things) that You love. (At-Tirmidhi)

31

O Allah! Make my love for You transcend the love of all other things and make my fear of You be
more than the fear of all others things, and make my desire to meet You over ride all the desires of
this world. And when the eyes of the worldly people are cooled and comforted by the world make
the coolness and enjoyment of my eyes lie in Your worship.

32

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, and I seek refuge in Your from helplessness and
laziness, and from miserliness and cowardice, and I seek refuge in You from the over powering of
debt and domination of others. (Mishkat)

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O Allah! Indeed I, I seek refuge in You from dying by falling from above, or being buried under
debris, and by drowning and by burning; and I seek refuge in You that Shaytan should confound me
near death and that I am killed in Your way while turning my back (fleeing); and I seek refuge in You
that I die from a bite of a venomous animal. (Abu-Dawud)

34







O Allah! Rectify for me my Deen which is a means of guarding my matters and my world which is a
means of my livelihood, and make good my hereafter in which is my returning, and make my life a
means of abundance of all good and my death a means of comfort and peace free from all bad.
(Sahih Muslim)

35

O Allah! Indeed I seek refuge in You from inaction, laziness, cowardice, miserliness, extreme old
age, hardness of heart, heedlessness, need, humiliation and destitution, and I seek refuge in you
from poverty, disbelief, disobedience, opposition, hypocrisy, a bad reputation and showing off, and I
seek refuge in You from deafness, dumbness, insanity, leprosy, leucoderma, and from all bad
diseases. (Al-Hakim)

36

O Allah! Indeed I am your servant, the son of Your bondman, son of Your bondwoman my fore look
is in Your Hand; Your command is in my favour, and Your decree based on justice. I ask You with
every name of Yours that You have named for Yourself, or revealed in Your Book or taught anyone
of Your creation, or kept hidden with Yourself. (I ask) that you make the Quran the delight of my
heart, the light of my chest, and the means of removing my grief and sorrow and worries. (MusnadAhmed)

37








O Allah! Put light in my heart, and light in my sight, and light in my hearing, and light to my right and
light to my left, and light below me, and light above me, and light before me and light behind me,
and make light for me; and light in my tongue and light in my muscles and light in my flesh, and light
in my blood, and light in my hair, and light in my body and light in my soul; and magnify the light for
me. O Allah! Bestow me with light. (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

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O My Lord! Help me and do not help (others) against me, help me to overpower (them) and do not
let them overpower me, plan in my favour and do not plan against me, guide me and make the
Guidance easy for me, and help me against whoever oppresses me; O my Lord! Make me one most
grateful to You, one who mentions Your name greatly, one who fears You greatly, one who obeys
You greatly, one turning greatly towards You in submission and humility; O my Lord! Accept my
repentance, wash away my sins, accept my invocations, keep me firm on my proof, guide my heart,
make my tongue to utter what is correct (and true), and remove any ill feeling (and rancour) from my
heart. (Abu-Dawud)

39

O Allah! By Your knowledge of the unseen, and by your power over your creation, keep me alive as
long as you know that alive is good for me, and grant me death when you know that death is best
for me. O Allah! Indeed I ask You of having Your fear when hidden and seen (by others) and I ask
You of speaking the truth when pleased and when angry and I ask You for moderation in wealth and
in poverty and never-ending blessings, and I ask You unceasing coolness of the eyes; and I ask You
for contentment on Your decree and the pleasure of life after death and I ask You for the delight of
gazing at Your Countenance and the eagerness of meeting that my mislead. O Allah! Adorn us with
the beauty of Iman and make us a guides of the one who are guided. (Al-Nasa'i)

40

Allah! Indeed I ask of You the best appeal and the best of invocation, and the best salvatation and
the best deed, and the best recompense and the best life and the best death and make me
steadfast (on Deen) and make heavy my scale (of good deeds) and make my faith a reality and
elevate my ranks and accept my prayers and forgive my mistakes, And I ask You for the highest
levels of paradise. O Allah! Indeed I ask You for the opening of good and it's completion of all kinds
of good, and it's first and it's last and it's apparent and it's hidden and I ask You for the highest levels
of paradise. Aameen O Allah! Indeed I ask You that You elevate my remembrance (of you) and You
unload my burden (of sins, work, unwanted things) and reform my condition and You purify my heart
(from enmity, jealousy, cowardice, laziness, miserliness and all bad) and You safeguard my private
parts and You illuminate my heart and You forgive my sins and I ask You for the highest levels of
paradise. Aameen. O Allah! Indeed I ask You that You bless myself (nafs), and my hearing and in
my sight and my soul and my (physical) form and my character and my family and my life, and my
death, and my deeds and accept my good deeds and I ask You for the highest levels of Paradise.
Aameen. (Al-Hakim)

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O Allah! Put affection amongst our hearts, set right our matters between ourselves, guide us to the
ways of peace, save us from darkness towards light, save us from all kinds of indecency; the
apparent as well as the hidden, and bless our hearing, our seeing, our hearts, our spouses and our
children, and turn in mercy upon us. Indeed Your are the One who greatly Accepts repentance, One
who is repeatedly Merciful. (Al-Hakim)

42

O Allah! Grant a good end to all our matters and save us from humiliation in the world and the
punishment of the Hereafter. (Musnad Ahmed)

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)

O Allah! Indeed we ask you of all good that Your Prophet Muhammad (saw) asked You of, and we
seek refuge in You from all evil that Your Prophet Muhammad (saw) sought refuge from. You are
The One whose Help is sought and The One to make it reach (us); there is no Power and Strength
except with Allah. (Al-Tirmidhi)

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O Allah distribute amongst us such awe and fear of You that will be a means of intervening between
us and Your disobedience; and grant us such obedience to You that will enable us to reach Your
Paradise; and such conviction which will ease out upon us the afflictions of the world. O Allah! As
long as You keep us alive, benefit us by means of our hearing, our sight and our bodily strengths /
faculties and make each one of them our inheritor; and avenge for us those who wronged us and
help us against our enemies; and do not place any difficulties in our deen, nor make the world the
greatest of our sorrows nor the limit of the source of our knowledge; and do not impose upon us one
who has no mercy for us. (Al-Tirmidhi)

8.2.2 MASNOON DUAS

BY FARHAT HASHMI

1




How perfect Allah is and I praise Him by the number of His Creation and as much as His pleasure,
and by the weight of His throne, and the ink of His words. (Sahih Muslim)

2


O Allah! Send prayers and peace upon our prophet, Muhammad (saw).

O Allah! Grant us understanding of Deen. (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

4


O Allah! Grant me an easy reckoning. (Musnad Ahmed)

(O Allah!) O one who turns the hearts makes my heart steadfast upon Your Deen. (At-Tirmidhi)

O Allah! The One who turns the hearts, turn my heart towards Your obedience. (Sahih Muslim)

7

O Allah! Bestow on me my rectitude and save me from the evil of my soul (nafs). (At-Tirmidhi)

8




O Allah! Help us in the severity and swoon of death.

9


O Allah! Indeed You are the One Who forgives; You love to forgive so forgive me. (At-Tirmidhi)

10


O Allah! Indeed I ask You for guidance, Allah consciousness, chastity and contentment. (Sahih
Muslim)

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O Allah! Expand for me Your provision till my old age and till the end of my life. (al-Jami' as-Saghir)

12

O Allah! Suffice me with Your halal (lawful) and (save me) from Your haram (unlawful), and enrich
me with Your favors so that I am not dependent upon anyone except You. (At-Tirmidhi)

13

O Allah! I ask You for beneficial knowledge, pure provision and acceptable deeds. (Ibn-Majah)

14

O Allah! Benefit me through what You taught me and teach me what is beneficial for me and
increase me in knowledge. (Ibn-Majah)

15



O Allah! I seek refuge in You from a bad character and bad actions and bad desires. (At-Tirmidhi)

16

O Allah! Keep me alive (in a state of) humbleness and grant me death in (a state of) humbleness
and resurrect me in the company of the humble ones. (Ibn-Majah)

17




O Allah! Grant piety to my soul (nafs) and purify it, You are the Best of the ones to purify it; You are
its Guardian and Patron. (Sahih Muslim)

18

O Allah! Make me content upon whatever (blessings) You have granted me and bless me in it and
compensate me with goodness for all that is out of sight. (Al-Hakim)

19

O Allaah! I ask of You Your love, the love of whoever loves You and the love of that deed which
would draw me to attaining Your love. (At-Tirmidhi)

20

O Allah! Indeed I ask You of sound health, chastity, trustworthiness, good character and
contentment on whatever is decreed. (Mishkat)

21

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from poverty, deficiency and humiliation and I seek refuge in You that I
wrong others or that I am wronged. (Abu-Dawud)

22




O Allah! Indeed I seek refuge in You from severe trials and hardships, being overtaken by
misfortune, a bad fate and the rejoicing of enemies. (Sahih Al-Bukhari,)

23

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the decline of Your blessings, the changing of my state of wellbeing, the suddenness of Your punishment and any kind of displeasure from You. (Sahih Muslim)

24

O Allah! I hope for Your mercy, so do not entrust me to myself for the twinkling of an eye and set all
my affairs straight, there is no deity except You. (Abu-Dawud)

25

O Allah! I seek Your protection from knowledge that is not beneficial, and from a heart that does not
fear, and from a soul that is not satiated and from a prayer that is not answered. (Sahih Muslim)

26





O Allah! Make me one who is most patient and grateful; and make me small in my own eyes but
great in the eyes of others. (Hisn-e-Haseen)

27

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from an evil day, an evil night, an evil moment, and evil companion and
from an evil neighbor at the place of staying. )At-Tabarani(

28





O Allah! Forgive my faults, my ignorance, exceeding in my matters and all that which You know
better than me. O Allah! Forgive my sins done in jest, knowingly, mistakenly and those done
intentionally and all these are in me. (Al-Bukhari)

29




O Allah! Indeed I ask You for all the goodness of the hastened one (this world) and of the delayed one (the
Hereafter), from what I know and what I do not know. O Allah! I seek refuge in You from all the evil of the hastened
one (this world) and of the delayed one (the Hereafter), from what I know and what I do not know. (Ibn-Majah)

30

O Allah! Purify my heart from hypocrisy and my actions from showing off (riya) and my tongue from
lying and my eyes from treachery. Indeed You know the treachery of the eyes and what is hidden in
the chests.

31

O Allah! I ask You of Paradise and those words and actions that will draw me near to it. I seek
refuge in You from the Fire and from those words and actions that will draw me near to it. I ask You
that You make, whatever You have decreed (for me), and a mean of goodness for me.(Ibn-Majah)

32

O Allah! Grant me Your love and the love of those whose love will help me draw nearer to You. O
Allah! Whatever You have provided me of that which I love, then make it a means to strengthen me
for that which You love. O Allah! And what You have kept from me of that which I love then make it a
means for me to be free for that which You love. (At-Tirmidhi)

33

O Allah! Increase Your love for me over the love of all other things, exceed Your fear over the fear of
all other things and exceed my eagerness to meet You over all the worldly desires, And when the
eyes of the people of the world are cooled by their world, place the coolness of my eyes in Your
worship.

34

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, and I seek refuge in Your from helplessness and
laziness, and from miserliness and cowardice, and I seek refuge in You from the over powering of
debt and domination of others. (Mishkat)

35

O Allah! I seek refuge in You from falling from above and to be buried beneath debris and drowning
and burning and I seek refuge in You from being led astray by the Satan at the time of death and I
seek refuge in You from turning my back and fleeing from the battlefield and I seek refuge in You
that I die from the bite (of a venomous animal). (An-Nasa'i)

36







O Allah! Rectify for me my Deen which is a means of guarding my matters and my world which is a
means of my livelihood, and make good my hereafter in which is my returning, and make my life a
means of abundance of all good and my death a means of comfort and peace free from all bad.
(Sahih Muslim)

37

O Allah! Indeed I seek refuge in You from inaction, laziness, cowardice, miserliness, extreme old
age, hardness of heart, heedlessness, need, humiliation and destitution, and I seek refuge in you
from poverty, disbelief, disobedience, opposition, hypocrisy, a bad reputation and showing off, and I
seek refuge in You from deafness, dumbness, insanity, leprosy, leucoderma, and from all bad
diseases. (Al-Hakim)

38

O Allah! Indeed I am your servant, the son of Your bondman, son of Your bondwoman, my fore look
is in Your Hand; Your command is in my favour, and Your decree based on justice. I ask You with
every name of Yours that You have named for Yourself, or revealed in Your Book or taught anyone
of Your creation, or kept hidden with Yourself. (I ask) that you make the Quran the delight of my
heart, the light of my chest, and the means of removing my grief and sorrow and worries. (MusnadAhmed)

39








O Allah! Make light in my heart, light in my sight and light in my hearing, light to my right and light to
my left, light above me and light below me, light before me and light behind me, let there be light for
me, light in my tongue, light in my muscles, light in my flesh, light in my blood, light in my hair, light.
(Sahih-Bukhari)

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O My Lord! Help me and do not help (others) against me, give me supremacy and do not let them
overpower me, plan in my favour and do not plan against me and guide me and make the guidance
easy for me and help me against whoever over presses me, O My Lord! Make me one most grateful
to You, one who remember you greatly, one who fears You greatly, one who obeys You greatly, one
who exhibits humbleness greatly, one who sighs greatly and turns towards You. O My Lord! Accept
my repentance, wash away my sins and accept my supplications, keep firm my proof, keep my
tongue truthful, guide my heart and remove grudges from my heart.(At-Tirmidhi)

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O Allah! By Your knowledge of the unseen and by Your power over Your creation, keep me alive as
long as You know that being alive is best for me and grant me death when You know death is best
for me. O Allah! Indeed I ask You of Your fear in the hidden and evident; I ask of You for a truthful
speech in the state of contentment and in fury and I ask You for moderation an wealth and in
poverty and never-ending favors, I ask You unceasing coolness of the eyes, I ask You for
contentment on Your decree and the pleasure of life after death and I ask You for the delight of
looking at Your Countenance and eagerness of meeting You without undergoing any harmful
difficulty or a trail that leads astray. O Allah! Adorn us with the beauty of faith and make us a guide
of righteous people. (An-Nasa'i)

42

O Allah! Indeed I ask You that I make the best appeal and the best supplication, for the best
salvation, the best deeds, the best reward, the best life and the best death and to keep me
steadfast, and to make heavy my scale (of good deeds) and establish my faith and elevate my
ranks, accept my prayers and forgive my mistakes. I ask You for the highest levels of Paradise. O
Allah! Indeed I ask You for the onset of goodness and its completion (in goodnesses), its foremost
and its last, its apparent and its hidden, I ask You for the highest levels of Paradise. Aameen' O
Allah! I ask You for goodness of what You have given, and put goodness in whatever I will do and in
all the deeds that I will do, of what is hidden and what is evident and I ask You for the highest levels
of Paradise. 'Aameen'. O Allah! I ask You to elevate my remembrance and unload my burdens and
reform my affairs, You purify too my heart and safeguard my private parts, illuminate my heart and
forgive my sins. I ask You for the highest levels of Paradise. 'Aameen' O Allah! Indeed I ask You to
(put) blessing in myself (nafs), in my hearing and my sight and in my soul and my creation, in my
conduct and my family, in my life and my death and in my deeds, so accept my good deeds and I
ask You for the highest levels of Paradise. 'Aameen'(Al-Hakim)

43

O Allah! Put affection amongst our hearts, reform our matters within us, guide us to the path of
peace, save us from the darkness towards the light, save us from all kinds of obscenity; the
apparent as well as the hidden; bless our hearing, our sight, our hearts, our spouses and our
children, turn in mercy towards us. Indeed You are the One who greatly accepts repentance, most
Merciful. Make us the ones most grateful for Your bounties so we may compete with one another in
Praising You for these (bounties) and complete these (bounties) for us. (Al-Hakim)

44

O Allah! Grant a good end in all our matters and save us from humiliation of the world and the
torment of the Hereafter.

45

O Allah! Indeed we ask you of all good that Your Prophet Muhammad (saw) asked You of, and we
seek refuge in You from all evil that Your Prophet Muhammad (saw) sought refuge from. You are
The One whose Help is sought and The One to make it reach (us); there is no Power and Strength
except with Allah. (At-Tirmidhi)

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O Allah! Distribute amongst us such awe and fear of Yours that will be a means of intervening
between us and Your disobedience; and grant us such obedience of Yours that will enable us to
reach Your Paradise; and such conviction which will ease upon us the afflictions of the world. O
Allah! As long as You keep us alive, benefit us by means of our hearing, our sight and our bodily
strengths; make each one of them our heir; avenge for us those who wronged us; help us against
our enemies and do not place any difficulties in our Deen nor make the world the greatest of our
sorrows nor a (limited) source. Of our knowledge and do not impose upon us one who has no
mercy for us.

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O Allah! Indeed We place You before them (our enemies) and we take refuge in You from their evil.
(Abu-Dawud, Al-Hakim)

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O Allah! I complain to you of my weakness, my scarcity of resources and humiliation before the
people. O Most Merciful! The Lord of the weak and my Lord too! To whom have You entrusted me?
To one who does not care for me? Or have You appointed my enemy as master of my affairs? So as
long as You are not angry with me, I care not. Your favor is abundant for me. I seek refuge in the
light of Your Face, by which all darkness is dispelled and every affair of this world and the next is set
right, lest Your anger or your displeasure descend upon me. I desire your pleasure and satisfaction
until You are pleased. There is no power (to do good) and no might (to refrain from evil) except with
You. (Ar-Raheeq-Al-Makhtum)