Praying for parents is a form of being kind to them and being kind to them, and a form of maintaining ties of kinship, which is considered one of the reasons for abundant livelihood. It has been proven in Sahih Al-Bukhari on the authority of Anas bin Malik - may God be pleased with him - that the Prophet - peace and blessings be upon him - said: “Whoever loves to be extended His livelihood, and his trail will be extended to him, so may he maintain his ties of kinship.”[1][2]
A prayer for living parents from the Qur’an
“Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers on the Day when reckoning is established.” [Surat Ibrahim, verse 41]
“My Lord, have mercy on them as they raised me when I was young.” [Surat Al-Isra, verse: 24]
“My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house as a believer, and the believing men and believing women, and do not increase the wrongdoers except the righteous.” [Surat Nuh, verse: 28]
A prayer for the living parents for health and long life
“O God, forgive my parents and have mercy on them just as they raised me when I was young. O God, O Extender of Hands with gifts, extend upon my parents your great bounty, your vast presence, with which you expand their hearts to worship and obey You, to make them feel comfortable with You, and to work with what pleases You. And prolong their lives, good health and religion, and make, O God, their last words in this world: There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.
“O God, O Possessor of Majesty and Honor, O Ever-Living, O Ever-Living, we call upon You by Your greatest name, by which when you are called upon, you respond, by extending Your blessings, mercy, and provision to my parents. O God, clothe them with well-being, and seal for them forgiveness so that sins do not harm them. O God, protect them from every horror short of Paradise, with Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.” .
“O God, grant my parents a stable life, a home, and righteous deeds. O God, grant them Paradise and whatever words or deeds will bring them closer to it, and keep them away from Hell and whatever words or deeds will bring them closer to it.”
“Oh God, make them among those who remember you, those who are thankful to you, and those who obey you. Oh God, make them happy with your piety.”
“O God, make their times filled with your remembrance. O God, accept their repentance and answer their prayers. O God, we seek refuge in You to return them to the most miserable age. O God, complete their deeds with good deeds. O God, make my mother and father among the seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without judgment or torment.”
“Oh God, protect my mother and father for me and do not let me see anything bad about them.”
“Oh God, increase their life and well-being, keep them away from the troubles of the world, and do not make them taste tears of distress. Oh God, with the size of your sky, comfort their hearts and make them happy with happiness that does not fade away.”
“Oh God, I entrust you with my father’s smile and my mother’s heart and their joy. Oh God, I entrust you with the most precious things I have, so protect them with your eyes that never sleep. Oh God, keep the weight and bitterness of life away from my parents. Oh God, my mother and father, and what is less than that is easy.”
“Oh God, protect their hearts, their health, and their well-being, prolong their lives, and protect them, O Lord, with your eyes that never sleep.”
“O God, increase my mother and father’s status when they bow, increase their love when they rise, increase their sincerity when they prostrate, increase their success and ease, and do not deprive them of Your Paradise.”
“Oh God, protect my mother and father for me wherever their steps take. Oh God, I entrust their lives, health, and happiness to you, for with you, O Lord, do not waste deposits.”
“Oh God, I entrust you with those who are dearer to me than myself. Oh God, protect my mother and father for me and grant them life beyond their age and well-being beyond their well-being.”
“Oh God, I entrust my mother’s heart and my father’s heart to you from every ounce of pain.”
“Oh God, comfort and happiness touch my mother’s heart, and mercy and forgiveness touch my father’s soul.”
A prayer for living parents for forgiveness
“O God, You are Most Merciful and You love forgiveness, so forgive my parents.”
“O God, forgive my parents for all their past sins, protect them for the remainder of their lives, and grant them pure deeds that will please them.”
“O God, do not make for them a sin except that You forgive it, nor make a concern except that You relieve it, and do not make any of the needs of the world for them a good thing except that You fulfill it.”
“O God, forgive my parents and have mercy on them, and forgive them. O God, make us among the most beloved people to them, and among the closest children to them, and honor us by asking well for them and taking care of them. O God, do not distract us from them, neither with money, nor with wives, nor with children. O God, grant us righteousness for them during their lives and after their death.”
“Oh God, do not deprive them of the breadth of your mercy, the comprehensiveness of your well-being, and the abundance of your giving, and do not withhold your talents from them because of the bad they have, and do not turn away your generous face from them with your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“O God, forgive our parents and have mercy on them, and pardon the living and the dead.”
“O God, forgive them, pardon them, pardon them, and purify them from sins and transgressions, just as a white garment is purified from filth.”
“O God, reward them for doing good with kindness, and for doing wrong with forgiveness and pardon.”
“O Living, O Ever-Living, O Light, O Holy, O Living, O God, O Most Merciful, forgive them the sins that cause vengeance, and forgive them the sins that cause remorse, and forgive them the sins that withhold an oath, and forgive them the sins that violate their integrity, and forgive them the sins that Hope is cut off, and forgive them the sins that hasten annihilation, and forgive them the sins that reject supplication, and forgive them the sins that hold back the rain from the sky, and forgive them the sins that darken the air, and forgive them the sins that reveal the cover, Oh God, I ask you, O reliever of worries, O revealer of grief. “He who responds to the prayer of the needy, Most Merciful and Most Merciful of this world and the Hereafter. I ask You to have mercy on them with a mercy from You that enriches them from the mercy of anyone else.”
A prayer for the living parents to relieve their worries
“Oh God, do not place even an atom’s weight of sadness and worry in my parents’ hearts. My Lord, make their hearts happy so that my heart may be happy, O Generous One, O God.”
“O reliever of anxiety, O remover of grief, relieve their worries and ease their affairs, and have mercy on their weakness and lack of resourcefulness, and provide for them, O Lord of the worlds, O Friendly, O Generous, O Mighty of the heavens and the earth, O Guide of hearts, guide their hearts, O Helper, help them, O Helper, help them. Help us, help them. Oh God, help us to be kind to them until they are satisfied with us and you will be satisfied. Oh God, help us to be kind to them in their old age.”
“Oh God, whoever of my parents is worried, relieve his worry, whoever is in debt, relieve his debt, and whoever is sick, restore his health. Oh God, make my father among the happiest of happy people.”
“Oh God, do not combine the sadness of this world with the misery of the afterlife for them, with your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful. Oh God, have mercy on you, O God, have mercy on you. Oh God, grant us and them a good ending.”
“O God, protect them from what worries them, O God, provide them with piety, forgive them their sins, and direct them to goodness wherever they turn, O God, ease them into ease, and spare them hardships, O God, make for them from everything that worries them and distresses them from the affairs of this world and the hereafter, a relief and a way out, and provide for them and forgive them their sins.”
“O God, remove from them every affliction, O Knower of every hidden thing, O remover of every affliction, help them, be kind to them, and correct them with Your help.”
“O God, relieve my parents of everything that their hearts were distressed by, their patience with, their resourcefulness diminished, and their strength weakened.”
“O God, O God, in whose hand is the relief of every hardship, and in whose hand is the fulfillment of promises and threats, and every day is a new matter and matter. I ask you, O God, to bring them out of distress and distress to the widest path and path, and I ask you to repel from them what they cannot bear.”