It is the right of parents over their children to honor them and be kind to them during their lives and after their death, and supplicating and asking for forgiveness for them is among the matters that are certain and desirable by law, for it benefits them and raises their ranks. The Almighty said: {And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy, and say, “My Lord, have mercy upon them They raised me Small},[1] There is no greater righteousness than their righteousness after their death, and continuing to pray for them. On the authority of Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, he said: (If a person dies, his deeds are cut off except for three: except ongoing charity, or beneficial knowledge Through it, or a child A righteous person who prays for him).[2][3]
Prayers for deceased parents from the Qur’an and Sunnah
{Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers on the Day when reckoning is established}. [Surat Ibrahim, verse: 41]
{My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house as a believer and the believing men and believing women}. [Surat Nuh, verse: 28]
{My Lord, have mercy on them as they raised me when I was a child}. [Surat Al-Isra, verse: 24]
(O God, bless him, forgive him, have mercy on him, treat him well, pardon him, wash him with water, ice, and hail, and purify him of sins and sins as a white garment is purified of filth, and replace him with his home, a home better than his home, and a family better than his family, and protect him The temptation of the grave and the torment of the Fire.) [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Ibn Majah, On the authority of Awf bin Malik Al-Ashja’i, page or number: 1228, authentic.]
(O God, so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, is under Your protection, the jurisprudence of the temptation of the grave). [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Abi Dawud, on the authority of Wa’ila bin Asqa’ Al-Laithi Abu Fasila, page or number: 3202, authentic.]
(O God, your servant and the son of your servant bore witness that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is your servant and your messenger, and you know him better than me. If he is a doer of good, then increase his good deeds, and if he is an offender, forgive him and do not deprive us of his reward and do not test us after him.) [Narrated by Ibn Hibban, in Sahih Ibn Hibban, On the authority of Abu Hurairah, page or number: 3073, included in his Sahih.]
(O God, forgive our living and our dead, our young and our old, our males and our females, those who are present and those who are absent. O God, whoever of us You have brought to life, grant him life to follow faith, and whoever of us You have caused to die, cause him to die in Islam. O God, do not deprive us of his reward and do not lead us astray after him [Narrated by Al-Albani, in Sahih Abi Dawud, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, page or number: 3201, correct.]
Various prayers for deceased parents
“O God, have mercy on our parents and forgive them, O God, and be pleased with them, bestowing upon them the fullness of Your satisfaction, and making them the abode of Your dignity and security, and the places of Your pardon and forgiveness, and bestowing on them the abundance of Your blessings and benevolence.”
“Oh God, You are their Lord, You created them, You guided them to Islam, You took their souls, You know best their secrets and their openness. We have come as intercessors, so forgive them.”
“O God, forgive them with a comprehensive forgiveness that erases their previous burdens and the evil of their persistence. O God, have mercy on them with a mercy that illuminates for them the resting place in their graves, and secures them with it on the day of terror when they rise up. O God, be compassionate to their weakness as they were compassionate to our weakness, and have mercy on their separation from you as they were to us in the event that we were separated.” Have mercy on them, O God, and be compassionate to them as they were compassionate to us when we were young. O God, preserve for them the affection that filled their hearts, the tenderness with which you filled their chests, and the kindness with which you filled their senses. O God, reward them for that striving with which they sought us, and for the shepherding with which they were our shepherds. The best of what You have rewarded the righteous messengers and the sincere shepherds. O God, honor them many times more than they used to honor us. O God, look at them with eyes of mercy as they used to look at us. O God, grant them what they have neglected of the right to your lordship due to what they occupied themselves with in the right to raise us. O God, forgive them what they have fallen short of in the right to serve you. For what they favored us with in serving us, O God, pardon them for the suspicions they committed for the sake of what they gained for our sake. O God, do not hold them accountable for what the fever led them to do out of passion, because their love for us prevailed in their hearts.”
“Oh God, be kind to them in their beds of calamity with a kindness that exceeds their kindness to us during the days of their lives.”
“Oh God, they are your servants. They have become poor to your mercy, and you are free from their torment. If they are pure, purify them, and if they are wrong, forgive them. Oh God, do not deprive us of their reward and do not lead us astray after them.”
“O God, O tenderness, O manan, O vast forgiveness, forgive them, have mercy on them, pardon them, honor them, honor their hostel, widen their entrance, wash them with water, snow, and hail, and purify them from sins and transgressions just as a white garment is purified from filth.”
“O God, replace them with a better home than their home, and a better family than their family, and admit them to Paradise, and protect them from the torment of the grave, and from the torment of the Fire.”
“O God, whatever good deeds You have guided us to do, and good deeds You have facilitated for us, and granted us success in supplications, and granted us nearness to Him, we ask You, O God, to grant them a share and a share, and the bad deeds we have committed, the sins we have acquired, and the consequences we have endured, so do not burden them with this as a burden from us.” And do not burden them with any of our sins. O God, just as You pleased them with us in life, make them pleased with us after death.”
“O God, treat them with what you deserve, and do not treat them with what they deserve, and admit them to Paradise without discussion of account, and without precedent of punishment.”
“Oh God, make them forget their loneliness, make them feel lonely, make them feel happy in their estrangement, and send them down to a blessed home, and you are the best of both. Oh God, send them down to the homes of the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous, and be a good companion to those.”
“O God, O Possessor of Majesty and Honor, O Ever-Living, O Ever-Living, we call upon You by Your greatest name, by which if you are called upon, you answer, that You bestow upon my parents of Your blessings, Your mercy, and Your provision. O God, dress them in the garment of well-being so that they may be happy with their lives, and seal them with forgiveness so that sins will not harm them. O God, protect them.” Every horror short of Paradise, until You bring it to them by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“O God, please their souls with our deeds in the meeting place of souls, if the people of righteousness are pleased with the children of righteousness, O God, and the recitation we recited, you made it pure, and the prayer we prayed, and you accepted it, and the charity you gave us, so it increased, and the good deeds we did that you imposed, so we ask you, O God, to make their share of it greater than Our share of it, and their share of it is more abundant than our share, and their share of reward is more abundant than our arrows, for you have commanded us to be righteous to them, and encouraged us to thank them, and you are more deserving of righteousness than the righteous, and more deserving of connection than those entrusted with it.”
“O God, make their graves one of the gardens of Paradise, and do not make it one of the pits of fire, and make their graves spacious for them as far as their sight can go, and spread their graves from the bed of Paradise, and fill their graves with contentment, light, spaciousness, and pleasure.”
“O God, grant their book, ease their reckoning, heavy their scales with good deeds, make their feet firm on the path, and make them dwell in the highest gardens, in the vicinity of your Prophet and your chosen one.”
“O God, protect them from the terror of the Day of Resurrection, and from the terror of the Day of Resurrection, and make their souls safe and reassured, and teach them their proof.”
“O God, make light on their right hand, light on their left hand, light in front of them, light behind them, light above them, and light beneath them, so that you may send them safe and secure in a light of your light, and look at them with a look of contentment and never torture them.”
“O God, they were praying to You, so make them steadfast on the path on the day the feet would slip. O God, they were fasting for You, so admit them to Paradise from the gate of Rayyan. O God, they were following Your Book, so intercede for them in the Qur’an, and have mercy on them from the flames, and make them, O Most Merciful, rise in Paradise to the last verse they recited, and the last letter.” “Recite it.”
“O God, You are pardoning and love to pardon, so forgive them. O God, place them in Your security, security, and benevolence.”
“O God, make my mother and father masters of Paradise, and make the basin a resource for them, and the Messenger an intercessor for them, and make your shadow a shade for them, and the silk a garment for them, O God, Amen. O God, they have been good to me from the day of my birth until the day of their separation, so O God, for the sake of this benevolence, have mercy on them, and forgive And admit them into Paradise without judgment or punishment, with Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful.”
“O God, help us to be kind to them until they are satisfied with us and you will be satisfied. O God, help us to be kind to them in their old age. O 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, and treat them with your kindness, your presence, and your benevolence.” "And your generosity."
“O God, raise their ranks among the Mahdi, and leave them behind in their successors among those who are left behind, and forgive us and them, O God, and make their graves clear for them, and enlighten them in it. O God, have mercy on them above the earth, and have mercy on them under the earth, and have mercy on them on the day they are presented to you, O God, protect them from your torment on the day you resurrect your servants, O God. Send down a light of Your light upon them. Oh God, illuminate their graves, comfort their loneliness, and widen their entrance. Oh God, have mercy on their alienation, and have mercy on their gray hairs.
“O God, my mother and father are under your protection. O God, feed them from Paradise, show them their place in Paradise, and tell them to enter through any gates of Paradise you wish. O God, they are in your deposits. O God, O Lover of the righteous, and O Forgiver of the sins of the repentant, O Merciful, have mercy on them, and O Generous, honor them.” In their love, O God, build homes for them in Paradise, compensate them for the torments of this world, and protect them with my prayers from the evil of temptation that lurks in their graves, O God, and gather me in Paradise with them.”
“O God, make us the apple of their eye on the day the witnesses stand, and make them hear one of the sweetest calls on the Day of Calling, and make them among us among the most detested of fathers with children, until you gather us, them, and all Muslims in the abode of Your honor, the abode of Your mercy, and the place of Your saints, with those whom You have bestowed, among the prophets, the truthful ones, and the martyrs. And the righteous, and those are good companions.”