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Dua for Laylat al-Qadr

'A'ishah asked the Prophet ﷺ: 'If I knew which night was Laylat al-Qadr, what should I say in it?' He said: 'Say: O Allah, You are Pardoning and love to pardon, so pardon me.'

Consider it: she asked about a night better than a thousand months, and the answer was a handful of words asking for neither wealth nor children nor health — but pardon. Whoever is pardoned is saved, and whoever is saved has won.

The night lies in the last ten nights of Ramadan, most likely the odd ones, and most likely the twenty-seventh. Seek it across all ten: its concealment is deliberate, so that people strive through all of them.

اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي

Allahumma innaka 'afuwwun tuhibbul-'afwa fa'fu 'anni.

O Allah, You are Pardoning and love to pardon, so pardon me.

Plain text (no diacritics)

اللهم إنك عفو تحب العفو فاعف عني

Source: at-Tirmidhi 3513 • Ibn Majah 3850 Sahih

When is it said?

Two companions keeping each other to prayer

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Common questions

What is the dua for Laylat al-Qadr?

'Allahumma innaka 'afuwwun tuhibbul-'afwa fa'fu 'anni' — 'O Allah, You are Pardoning and love to pardon, so pardon me' (at-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah).

Is the wording 'afuwwun karim'?

The preserved wording is 'afuwwun tuhibbul-'afw'. The addition of 'karim' appears in some chains and is not established; keeping to the preserved wording is safer.