Is there a specific dua to be read when repenting?
Is there a dua needed for repentance?
04/09/2023
(updated 08/05/2023)
Published by M
Is there a specific dua to be read when repenting?
No, but it's from sunnah and highly recommended if you want to do tawbah for major sins especially then you can recite the best dua of forgiveness too, called Syed Al istighfaar or chief of forgiveness.
There are many other Quranic and prophetic duas for forgiveness or adhkaar...but this is the best one.
(Syed-ul-Istighfar)
The Messenger of Allaah sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam said:
Indeed the major supplication for forgiveness is to say
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ رَبِّي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ خَلَقْتَنِي وَأَنَا عَبْدُكَ وَأَنَا عَلَى عَهْدِكَ وَوَعْدِكَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا صَنَعْتُ أَبُوءُ لَكَ بِذَنْبِي وَأَبُوءُ لَكَ بِنِعْمَتِكَ عَلَيَّ فَاغْفِرْ لِي فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ
O Allaah You are my Lord, there is none worthy of worship in truth except You, You created me and I am Your slave and I abide to Your covenant and promise as best as I can, I seek refuge in You from the evil that I have committed, I profess to you my sins and I acknowledge Your favour upon me, so forgive me verily no one forgives sins except you.
Allaahumma anta rabbee, la ilaha illa anta, Khalaqtanee, wa ana abduka, wa ana ala ahdika wa wa’dika mastata’tu, a’outhu bika min sharri ma sanatu, aboo’u laka bini’matika alayya, wa aboo’u bee thambee, faghfirlee fa’innahu la yaghfiru ath-thunooba ‘illa ‘anta
So if the worshipper says this when the morning arrives, truly believing in it and he dies, enters Paradise, and if he says this when the evening arrives truly believing in it enters Paradise.
Truly believing in it means that you are sincere in your remorse and repentance and regret for the major sin and have the will to not commit it again and that's why ask Allah for his repentance.
Hadeeth taken from ‘Saheeh al-Kalima at-Tayyib’
-Shaykhul Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah
And Checked by Shaykh Muhammad Nasir-rudeen al-Albani (may Allah have mercy on them all.)