Istighfar — Seeking Forgiveness

1. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((وَاللَّهِ إِنِّي لأَسْتَغفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْيَوْمِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةٍ)).

   Wallahi innee la'astaghfirullaha wa atoobu ilayhi fil-yawmi akthara min sab'eena marrah

   (The Messenger of Allah said: ‘By Allah, I seek forgiveness and repent to Allah, more than seventy times a day.)

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2. وَقَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ تُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَإِنِّي أَتُوبُ فِي الْيَوْمِ إِلَيْهِ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ)).

   Ya ayyuhan-nasu tooboo ilallahi fa innee atoobu fil-yawmi ilayhi mi'ata marrah

   (He also said: ‘O People, Repent! Verily I repent to Allah, a hundred times a day.)

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3. وَقَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((مَنْ قَالَ أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ الْعَظيمَ الَّذِي لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَيُّ القَيّوُمُ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيهِ، غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ فَرَّ مِنَ الزَّحْفِ)).

   Man qala astaghfirullahal-'azeemalladhee la ilaha illa huwal-hayyul-qayyoomu wa atoobu ilayh, ghafarallahu lahu wa in kana farra minaz-zahf

   (He also said: ‘Whoever says:(I seek Allah’s forgiveness, besides whom, none has the right to be worshipped except He, The Ever Living, The Self-Subsisting and Supporter of all, and I turn to Him in repentance.) Allah would forgive him even if he was one who fled during the advance of an army.)

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4. وَقَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((أَقْرَبُ مَا يَكُونُ الرَّبُّ مِنَ الْعَبْدِ فِي جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ الآخِرِ فَإِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَكُونَ مِمَّنْ يَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ فِي تِلْكَ السَّاعَةِ فَكُنْ)).

   Aqrabu ma yakoonur-rabbu minal-'abdi fee jawfil-laylil-akhiri fa inistata'ta an takoona mimman yadhkurullaha fee tilkas-sa'ati fakun

   (He said: ‘The nearest the Lord comes to His servant is in the middle of the night, so if you are able to be of those who remember Allah at that time, then be so.)

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5. وَقَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((أَقْرَبُ مَا يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ مِنْ رَبِّهِ وَهُوَ سَاجِدٌ فَأَكثِرُوا الدُّعَاءَ)).

   Aqrabu ma yakoonul-'abdu min rabbihi wahuwa sajidun fa akthirud-du'a'

   (He also said: ‘The nearest a servant is to his Lord is when he is prostrating, so supplicate much therein.)

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6. وَقَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((إِنَّهُ لَيُغَانُ عَلَى قَلْبِي وَإِنِّي لأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فِي الْيَوْمِ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ)).

   Innahu layughanu 'ala qalbee wa innee la'astaghfirullaha fil-yawmi mi'ata marrah

   (He also said: ‘verily my heart becomes preoccupied, and verily I seek Allah’s forgiveness a hundred times a day.)(preoccupied: i.e. in a state of ‘forgetfulness’. The Prophet always used to increase in his remembrance of his Lord, in attaining a nearness to Allah and having consciousness of Allah to the extent that if this intensity lessened in anyway, he would regard it as a sin and would then race to seek forgiveness from Allah.)

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Source: Hisn al-Muslim by Saʿid ibn ʿAli ibn Wahf al-Qahtani. The Arabic is verbatim from the book; the English meaning is from the hisnmuslim.com English edition. The transliteration is generated by Waqtazan from the voweled Arabic as a reading aid — the Arabic and the recitation remain the reference. Virtues are quoted only from authentic hadith (al-Bukhari, Muslim, or graded sahih/hasan by al-Albani). Recitations: hisnmuslim.com.