Ramadan and fasting

Dua for Laylat al-Qadr

The selected Laylat al-Qadr prayer asks for Allah’s pardon. It comes from Aishah’s question about what to say if she encountered that night, as reported in Sunan Ibn Majah.

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For pardon on Laylat al-Qadrhadith
اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي
Transliteration

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

English meaning

O Allah, You pardon and love pardon, so pardon me.

The source and central request

Sunan Ibn Majah 3850 records the question and response. The card follows this source’s wording, which asks for pardon by recognising that Allah pardons and loves pardon.

The simplicity is part of its usefulness: a short text can be understood and learned without turning the night into a search for the longest circulating script.

Keeping wording variants separate

The selected record does not contain the added word “Karim” familiar from some versions. A different version needs its own textual reference rather than being silently inserted under this source.

Differences should be checked calmly and accurately. The aim is to preserve attribution, not to argue over a graphic or assume that a familiar addition appears in every narration.

Preparing for worship

Learn the meaning and pronunciation before the nights you hope to spend in worship. Make a realistic plan that respects your health, household responsibilities and the guidance you follow.

This page’s report supplies a supplication, not a method for proving the date of Laylat al-Qadr or a required total of repetitions. Do not attach a numerical target or a promise about every personal ambition to the quotation.

Common questions

Is the request mainly about worldly success? Its direct theme is pardon. Must I add Karim to this quotation? It is not in this selected source wording. Does the page identify the night with certainty? No; that question needs its separate evidence. Can I make other personal prayers? Keep them distinct from this reported teaching and its exact attribution.