- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:� The best supplication for seeking forgiveness is to say: Allahuma anta Rabi la ilaha illa anta, khalaqtani wa ana abduka, wa ana ala ahdika wa wa'dika mastata'tu A udhu bika min sharri ma sana'tu, abu'u laka bini'matika alaiya, wa abu'u bidhanbi faghfirli fa innahu la yaghfiru adh dhunuba illa anta.�. O Allah you are my Lord! None has the right to be worshipped but You. You created me and I am Your slave, and I am faithful to my covenant and my promise as much as I can. I seek refuge with You from all the evil I have done. I acknowledge before You all the blessings You have bestowed upon me, and I confess to You all my sins. So I entreat You to forgive my sins, for nobody can forgive sins except You. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) added:� If somebody recites it during the day with firm faith in it, and dies on the same day before evening he will be from the people of Paradise. And if somebody recites it at night with firm faith in it, and dies before morning, he will be from the people of Paradise.� [Reported by Al-Bukhari]
- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:� Oh people, repent unto Allah for I repent to Allah one hundred times every day� [Reported by Muslim]. Repenting to Allah by saying "Atubu illa Allah" I repent to Allah.
- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:� If a Muslim asks Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) with the supplication of Prophet Yunus (Jonah), he will be responded to.� [Reported by Ahmed]. The supplication is "La illaha illa anta subhanak ini kuntu mena ad-dalimean" Means There is no God but You; Glory be to You, Verily I was one of the transgressors.
- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) heard someone Supplicating Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) by these words:� Allahumma iny asa aluka bi'ani as-shadu anaka anta Allah la illaha ila anta al ahado assamad alathy lam yalid walam youlad walam yakun lahu kuffuan ahad (O Allah, I ask You by my testimony that You are Allah and that there is no God other than You. You are the Self-Sufficient Who neither begets nor was begotten and to Whom there is none equal). Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Him whose my soul is in His hand, he has asked (the supplicant) Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) by His supreme name. Allah will surely answer when one asks Him by His supreme name.� [Reported by Ahmed and Abu Dawud]. This means, when someone is supplicating Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala), he should ask Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) with these words by saying the words above then say his supplication.
- Narrated Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him); The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to invoke Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) at the time of distress, saying:� La ilaha illa Allah'u alAdearn al-Halim, La illaha illa Allah RabbulArsh il Adeem La illaha illa Allah Rabbus-samawti wa Rabbul-ardi wa Rabbul-arshil Karim.� [Reported by Al-Bukhari]. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, the Majestic, the Most Forbearing. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, the Lord of the Tremendous Throne. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, the Lord of the heaven and the Lord of the earth and the Lord of the Honorable Throne.
- Whenever the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) paid a visit to a patient, or a patient was brought to him, he used to invoke Allah, saying:� Ethhib al-bass Rab-Annas eshfi wa anta a'shafy la shifa'a illa shifa'oak shfa'an la yughadiru saqama.� [Reported by Al-Bukhari]. Take away the disease, O the Lord of the people! Cure him as You are the One Who cures. There is no cure but Yours, a cure that leaves no disease.
- Narrated Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him), Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:� Whoever says: 'Subhan allahi Wa bihamdihi' (I glorify Allah's Praises) one hundred times a day, will be forgiven all his sins even if they were as much as the foam of the sea.� [Reported by Al-Bukhari].
- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) ordered for the following statement:� O Allah! I seek refuge with You from miserliness; and I seek refuge with You from cowardice; and I seek refuge with You from being sent back to geriatric old age; and I seek refuge with You from fitnah (trial) of this world; and I seek refuge with You from punishment in the grave.� [Reported by Al-Bukhari].
