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Rabbana atina: the dua for good in this life and the next
The dua Rabbana atina fid-dunya hasanatan wa fil-akhirati hasanatan wa qina 'adhaban-nar, “Our Lord, give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire,” is from the Qur'an, Surah al-Baqarah (Qur'an 2:201).
رَبَّنَآ ءَاتِنَا فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ﴿٢٠١﴾
Transliteration
Rabbana atina fid-dunya hasanatan wa fil-akhirati hasanatan wa qina 'adhaban-nar
Meaning
Our Lord, give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.
Urdu meaning
اے ہمارے رب! ہمیں دنیا میں نیکی دے اور آخرت میں بھی بھلائی عطا فرما اور ہمیں عذاب جہنم سے نجات دے
Urdu meaning from the translation by Maulana Muhammad Junagarhi.
Qur'an 2:201 Qur'anArabic text: Tanzil Project, tanzil.net (CC BY 3.0), used verbatim.
Where this dua comes from
In the Qur'an this is the prayer of those who ask Allah for the good of both lives. Anas reported that it was the dua the Prophet ﷺ made most often (Sahih al-Bukhari 6389), and 'Abdullah ibn as-Sa'ib heard him say it between the two corners of the Ka'bah (Sunan Abi Dawud 1892).
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