About
A reference for the supplications the Prophets made — 63 of them, from 15 prophets, with the Arabic, how to say it, what it means, and the occasion it was said on.
Finding something
There are two ways in. By need — sixteen situations, if you are looking for words for something in particular. Or by prophet, in the order they came. Each prophet's page carries all of his supplications in full, so you can read straight through without opening anything.
Search works in Arabic without diacritics, in transliteration without the dots and macrons, and in English or Turkish.
Settings — in the top corner — controls the interface language, which translations appear, text size, light or dark, and whether transliteration shows. Your choices are remembered on your own device and nowhere else. There are no accounts and nothing is tracked.
After your first visit the whole site works without a connection.
Where the text comes from
The Arabic is fetched from a published edition of the muṣḥaf and checked against a checksum every time the site is built. It is never typed by hand — not in an entry, not in a heading, not anywhere. If a single character changed, the site would fail to build.
Translations are Marmaduke Pickthall's in English and Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır's in Turkish. Both are out of copyright, and both are taken āyah by āyah, so the translation always covers exactly the same words as the Arabic beside it. Every translation on the site names its translator.
Commentary is Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, by al-Maḥallī (d. 1459) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 1505), in Feras Hamza's translation for the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute, published at altafsir.com.
Where a supplication is an excerpt from a longer āyah, the whole āyah is shown with the supplication in full ink and the surrounding narrative dimmed, and the page says so. You can always tell a complete verse from part of one.
Two things to know
The 5 supplications from the Sunnah are the one place the Arabic is entered by hand, because no published ḥadīth edition can be checked automatically the way the Qurʾān can. Each names its collection, number and grading. Their reference numbers have not yet been checked against a printed edition, and each page says so.
One entry — a psalm attributed to Dāwūd — comes from outside the Qurʾān and the Sunnah. It is kept separate, labelled on its own page, and is not presented as revelation. It is there because the Qurʾān records that he sought forgiveness without quoting his words.
What you will not find here
No claims that reciting a particular duʿāʾ a particular number of times brings a particular result. Where such a promise has a sound, graded narration behind it, it belongs on a site like this — but none has been written here, and writing one without a source would be inventing something about scripture.
Where this site offers its own thought on using a duʿāʾ, it is set apart and labelled an editorial note, so it is never mistaken for something transmitted.
If something is wrong
A site that quotes scripture needs a way to be told it has made a mistake. If you find one — in the Arabic, a reference, a translation, a grading, or an explanation — please tell us. Errors in the text itself are fixed before anything else.
You do not need to know how to fix it. Saying what looks wrong is enough.
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