Rabbi A’inni Wala Tu’in ‘Alayya Meaning & Arabic Text

Rabbi a’inni wala tu’in ‘alayya is a tremendous Dua asking Allah for twenty two things. Here is the full Dua in Arabic text, meaning in English, transliteration, Hadith, benefits and explanation of the supplication.

Rabbi A’inni Wala Tu’in ‘Alayya Meaning in English

Rabbi A’inni Wala Tu’in means O Lord! Help me and do not help others against me, support me and do not support others against me, plan for me and do not plan against me, guide me and make guidance easy for me, and help me against those who wrong me. O Lord! Make me grateful to You, make me remember You much, make me fearful of You, obedient to You, humble before You and turning to You. O Lord! Accept my repentance and wash away my sins, answer my supplication, make my proof firm, guide my heart, make my tongue speak the truth, and remove resentment from my heart.

Rabbi A’inni Wala Tu’in ‘Alayya in Arabic Text

Here is the Dua in Arabic:

رَبِّ أَعِنِّي وَلَا تُعِنْ عَلَيَّ، وَانْصُرْنِي وَلَا تَنْصُرْ عَلَيَّ، وَامْكُرْ لِي وَلَا تَمْكُرْ عَلَيَّ، وَاهْدِنِي وَيَسِّرِ الهُدَى إِلَيَّ، وَانْصُرْنِي عَلَى مَنْ بَغَى عَلَيَّ، رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي لَكَ شَكَّارًا، لَكَ ذَكَّارًا، لَكَ رَهَّابًا، لَكَ مِطْوَاعًا، إِلَيْكَ مُخْبِتًا أَوَّاهاً مُنِيبًا، رَبِّ تَقَبَّلْ تَوْبَتِي، وَاغْسِلْ حَوْبَتِي، وَأَجِبْ دَعْوَتِي، وَثَبِّتْ حُجَّتِي، وَاهْدِ قَلْبِي، وَسَدِّدْ لِسَانِي، وَاسْلُلْ سَخِيمَةَ قَلْبِي

Transliteration

The supplication is transliterated as Rabbi a’inni wa la tu’in ‘alayya, wansurni wa la tansur ‘alayya, wamkurli wa la tamkur ‘alayya, wahdini wa yassiril-huda ilayya, wansurni ‘ala man bagha ‘alayya. Rabbij’alni laka shakkaran laka dhakkaran, laka rahhaban, laka mitwa’an, ‘ilayka mukhbitan, aw-wahan muniba. Rabbi taqabbal tawbati, waghsil hawbati wa ajib da’wati, wa thabbit hujjati, wahdi qalbi, wa saddid lisani, waslul sakhimata qalbi.

Hadith

On the authority of Ibn ʿAbbas (رضي الله عنه) who said, “I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) supplicating with the above dua. (One of the narrators) Abul-Hasan At-Tanafisi said: “I said to Waki’: ‘Shall I say it in the Qunut of Witr?’ He said: ‘Yes.’”

Recorded by al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad 664 & 665, Abu Dawud 1510, at-Tirmidhi 3551, Ibn Majah 3830

Note: It is a general dua which can be said anytime.

This is a tremendous supplication which contains 22 pleas, all of which are among the most important things for which a slave can ask his Lord.

They are also a means to his rectification, happiness and success in this life and the next.

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Explanation of Hadith

This magnificent supplication is comprised of twenty-two requests and pursuits. These are among the most important pursuits or requests of the servant (of Allah) and the most important means to achieve his Salāh (righteousness) and Sa’adah (happiness and felicity) in the Dunya (worldly life) and the Akhirah (hereafter).

The first of these requests is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘My Lord, help me…’ and this is a request for ‘Awn (help and assistance) from Allah, meaning: Grant me the success to remember You, be thankful to You and to worship You in the best manner; and in the face of the enemy, support me with assistance from You and success from You.

The second request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and do not help (anyone) against me…’ – meaning: Do not let anyone get the upper hand over me which will prevent me from being obedient to You, whether it be the lower self, which commands one with evil, or the devils from among the human beings and jinn (creatures created from fire).

The third request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and grant me victory…’ and this is a request for Nasr (victory), meaning: Make me overcome the disbelievers who are my enemies and the enemies of Your Deen (al-Islām).

It has also been said (that its meaning is); Grant me victory over my own lower self which commands me to do evil, since it is my arch enemy.

The fourth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and do not grant (anyone) victory over me…’ – meaning: Do not give anyone of your creatures mastery over me.

The fifth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘… and make a plan on my behalf …’ – meaning: Cause your plan to overtake my enemies and grant me a safe stratagem, and a correct opinion to achieve safety from their evil and to repulse their traps

– in such a way that the enemy will not even be aware of that which You have guided me to among the ways of repulsing their traps and their aggression.

The sixth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘….and do not make a plan (for my enemies) against me…’ – meaning: Do not guide my enemy to a way of repelling me (i.e. repelling my attack against the enemy).

The seventh request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and guide me…’ – meaning: Direct me to the doors of al-Khairat (all kinds of goodness), favor me with al-Ilm an-Nafi’ (beneficial knowledge), and enable me to see clearly the defects and shortcomings of my own self.

The eighth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and make the guidance easy for me (to follow)…’ – meaning: Make easy for me the following of the guidance and traveling along its path, make ready for me the means to doing good so that obedience (to You) will not be a burden and I will not be distracted from al-Ibadah (the worship of You).

The ninth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘….and grant me victory over those who have wronged me…’ – meaning: Grant me victory over whosoever has wronged me and transgressed against me.

This request is a form of being specific after his (ﷺ) previous request: ‘…grant me victory and do not grant (anyone) victory over me…’

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (Rahimahullah) said:

“So, his (ﷺ) saying: ‘…and grant me victory over those who have wronged me…’ is the supplication of one who is just, not the supplication of a transgressor who says: grant me victory over my enemy Mutlaqan (without exception, i.e. whether I am right or wrong).” [ar-Radd ala-l Bakree’, 1/207]

The tenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…O Allah, make me grateful to You…’ meaning: Inspire me with gratitude to You for Your blessings and favors upon me.

The eleventh request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…mindful of You…’ i.e. at all times and [in all conditions] standing, sitting and lying upon my side.

The twelfth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…in awe of You…’ – meaning: In fear of You in times of prosperity and times of adversity.

The thirteenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…devoted to Your obedience…’ i.e. doing a lot of acts of obedience, and this entails al-Inqiyad (willing submission), al-Imtithal (compliance) and at-Ta’ah (obedience).

The fourteenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…humble and submissive to You…’ – this is from the word al-Ikhbat which means: al-Khushoo’ (submissiveness), at-Tawadu’ (humility) and al-Khudoo’ (obedient). So, the intended meaning is: Make me one who is submissive, humble and obedient.

It is said: ‘He has humbly submitted to Allah’, meaning: he has calmly surrendered to Him, submitted to Him and obeyed (Him).

Its sign or indication (in a person) is that he humbles his heart in front of his Rabb (Lord, Creator, Master) due to His Majesty, in humility to Him and total surrender.

The fifteenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…a humble supplicant to You, and ever turning to You in repentance….’ al-Awwah is one who frequently supplicates, humbly begs (Allah) and cries (before Him). Al-Muneeb is the one who repents and turns back to Allah in all of his affairs.

The Prophet (ﷺ) held sufficient in his (ﷺ) saying: ‘…a humble supplicant to You, ever turning to You in repentance…’ to mention these two (characteristics) together,

since al-Inabah (turning to Allah in repentance) is inseparable from at-Ta’awwuh (humble supplication) and follows immediately behind it; it is as though the two (characteristics) are one and the same.

The sixteenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…My Lord, accept my repentance…’ i.e. by making it valid, by way of fulfilling its necessary conditions and bringing together all of its etiquette.

The seventeenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and wash away my sins…’ – meaning: wipe away my sins and my misdeeds [i.e. purify me].

The eighteenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…respond to my supplication…’ – ad-Da’wah here means Du’a (supplication, i.e. asking Allah for one’s needs, etc.).

The nineteenth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…confirm my argument/evidence…’, i.e. against Your enemies, in this world and in the next; and confirm my speech and my affirmation of the truth, in the world and at the time of being questioned by the two angels (in the grave).

The twentieth request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…guide my heart…’, i.e. to knowledge of my Rabb (Lord, Creator, Master), and knowledge of al-Haqq (the Truth) and al-Huda (the Guidance) which Allah, the Most High, has commanded us (to accept) and sent the Messengers (Alaihimus-Salam) with.

The twenty-first request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…make my tongue truthful…’ – meaning: Correct and make upright my tongue so that it does not speak with anything except truthfulness and sound speech.

The twenty-second request is the saying of the Prophet (ﷺ): ‘…and gently remove the hatred/ill will from my chest’– means: Eliminate the ill will from my chest, which includes: its Ghishsh (deceit), its Ghill (hatred, spite), its Hiqd (resentment, rancor), its Hasad (envy), and whatever is similar to this, from among those evil characteristics which come forth from the chest and reside in the heart.

With this brief explanation of what this supplication is composed of, including these significant issues and noble requests, the exalted status of this supplication becomes clear, and that it is one of those supplications which it is befitting (of a believer) to give it his utmost care and to beseech Allāh, the Most High, unceasingly by means of it.

[Taken from the book ‘Explanation of Comprehensive Supplications from the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ) (‘Fiqh al-Ad’iyah wal-Adhkār’) Shaykh Abdur-Razzāq ibn Abdul-Muhsin al-Badr]