12 Dua For Children Health and Protection From Evil Eye
We all want our children to be happy and successful. One way to help them is through prayer, or dua. Here are some special dua for children in Arabic and English, along with their benefits.
By saying these prayers, we can ask Allah to guide and protect our children, and help them grow into good people. Dua is a powerful way to show our love and care for our children, and to ask for Allah’s blessings in their lives.
1. Dua For Children Protection in Arabic
أُعِيذُكَ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ ، وَهَامَّةٍ ، وَمِنْ كُلِّ عَيْنٍ لَامَّةٍ
Transliteration
U‛eedhuka bi kalimaat-illaahit-taammah min kulli shaytaanin, wa haammah, wa min kulli ‛aynin laammah.
Dua For Children’s Protection Meaning in English
The dua for children’s protection is I seek protection for you in the perfect words of Allah from every devil and every beast, and from every evil eye.
Note
The Arabic verb used in this Dua can be different when reciting for boy, girl, two children and more than two children.
- For a boy: U’izuka
- For a girl: U’izuki
- For two boys or two girls: U’izukuma
- For more than two children: U’izukum
Sahih al-Bukhari 3371
2. Dua For Upbringing Children As Righteous Individuals
Prophet Ibraheem (عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ) asked this dua to Allah to grant him a righteous child:
رَبِّ هَبْ لِى مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ
Transliteration
Rabbi hablee mina assaliheen.
Meaning
My Lord, grant me [a child] from among the righteous.
[Surah As-Saaffaat (37:100)]
A righteous child who outlives his parents can contribute to their record of good deeds after their death. Abu Hurayrah RA reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“When a human dies, his (good) deeds come to an end, except for three types: an ongoing charity, a beneficial knowledge, and a righteous child who supplicates for him.”[Recorded by Muslim (1631), Abu Dawūd, and others]
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3. Dua
رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَٰجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّٰتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَٱجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا
Transliteration
Rabbana hab lana min azwajina wa dhuriyyatina qurrata A’yunin waj’alna lil-muttaqina imama.
Meaning
Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes and make us an example for the righteous.
[Surah Al-Furqan (25:74)]
4. Dua For Ourself And Our Children To Be Righteous And Grateful
رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَيَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِي فِي ذُرِّيَّتِي ۖ إِنِّي تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ وَإِنِّي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِين
Transliteration
Rabbi awziʿni an ashkura niʿmatakal-lati anʿamta ʿalayya wa ʿala walidayya wa an aʿmala salihan tardah, wa aslih li fi dhuriyyati, inni tubtu ilayka wa inni minal-muslimin.
Meaning
My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favour which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.
[Surah Al-Ahqaf (46:15). This is also the Dua of Sulayman (Alaihissalam) as mentioned by Allah in Surah An-Naml (27:19)]
5. Dua For Ourself And Our Children’s Steadfastness In Prayers
Prophet Ibrahim (Alaihissalam) asked this dua:
رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي مُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةِ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِي ۚ رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلْ دُعَاءِ
Transliteration
Rabbij ‘alnee muqeemas-salati wa min dhurriyyatee rabbana wataqabbal du‘a.
Meaning
My Lord, make me an establisher of prayer, and [many] from my descendants. Our Lord, and accept my supplication.
[Surah Ibrahim (14:40)]
6. Dua For Ourself And Our Children To Be Obedient To Allah
Prophet Ibrahim (Alaihissalam) asked this dua when he renovated Ka’ba (Masjid Al-Haram):
رَبَّنَا وَاجْعَلْنَا مُسْلِمَيْنِ لَكَ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِنَا أُمَّةً مُسْلِمَةً لَكَ وَأَرِنَا مَنَاسِكَنَا وَتُبْ عَلَيْنَا ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ
Transliteration
Rabbana wa-j’alna Muslimayni laka wa min Dhurriyatina ‘Ummatan Muslimatan laka wa ‘Arina Manasikana wa tub ‘alayna ‘innaka ‘antat-Tawwabu-Raheem.
Meaning
Our Lord! Make us both (fully) submit to You and from our descendants a nation that will submit to you. Show us our rituals, and accept our repentance. You are truly the Acceptor of Repentance, Most Merciful.
[Surah Al-Baqarah (2:128)]
7. Dua Seeking Protection For Ourselves And Our Children From Evils
Satan’s extreme jealousy and hatred for humans has no limit. He does not hesitate to direct his attacks on every human from birth.
Abū Hurayrah (RA) reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “There is no baby but that Satan pokes it when it is born, so it starts off by crying from Satan’s poke except for the Son of Maryam (Mary) and his mother.”
Abu Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) then recited the ayah:
وَإِنِّي أُعِيذُهَا بِكَ وَذُرِّيَّتَهَا مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
(Maryam’s mother supplicated to Allāh,) “Indeed, I seek Your protection for her and her progeny from Satan, the outcast. [Al Imran 3:36]
[Combined from narrations by al-Bukhārī (4548, 3286, 3431) and Muslim (2366)]
Thus, a child who has not yet encountered anything in this life is first received with a poke from man’s worst enemy: Satan.
8. Invoking Allah’s Blessings At Marriage
A couple should start their marriage by invoking Allah’s (ﷻ) blessings for themselves and their offspring.
Abdullah Bin ‘Amr (RA) reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“Let any of you who marries a woman put his hand on her forehead, mention Allah’s name and invoke His blessing (i.e., say, “Bismillah, allahumma bārik li fiha — With Allāh’s name. O Allah, bless her for me,”) and then say:
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ خَيْرَهَا وَخَيْرَ مَا جَبَلْتَهَا عَلَيْهِ، وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّهَا وَشَرِّ مَا جَبَلْتَهَا عَلَيْهِ
Transliteration
Allāhumma innī as’aluka min khayrihā wa-khayri mā jabaltaha ‘alayhi, wa-a’udhu bika min sharrihā wa-sharri mā jabaltahā ‘alayh.
Meaning
O Allah, I ask You to grant me of the good that ensues from her or that You placed into her nature, and to protect me from the evil that ensues from her or that You placed into her nature.
[Recorded by Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah, and others]
9. Dua
A man once came to ‘Abdullah Bin Mas ūd (رضي الله عنه) and told him that he had just married a young woman and was worried that she might dislike him. ‘Abdullah told him:
“Indeed, love (between the two spouses) is from Allāh and dislike is from Satan. Satan wants you to loathe what Allah made lawful for you. When your wife first comes to you, lead her in praying two rak’at, then say:
اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لِي فِي أَهْلِي، وَبَارِكْ لَهُمْ فِيَّ، اللَّهُمَّ ارْزُقْنِي مِنْهُمْ، وَارْزُقْهُمْ مِنِّي، اللَّهُمَّ، اجْمَعْ بَيْنَنَا مَا جَمَعْتَ إِلَى خَيْرٍ، وَفَرِّقْ بَيْنَنَا إِذَا فَرَّقْتَ إِلَى خَيْرٍ
Transliteration
Allāhumma bārik li fi ahli, wa-barik lahum fiyya. Allahumma-rzuqni minhum warzuqhum minni. Allāhummaj-‘ma baynanā ma jama’ta bikhayr, wa farriq baynana idha farraqta ilā khayr.
Meaning
O Allah, bless my wife for me and me for her. O Allah, provide (offspring) for me through her and for her through me. O Allāh, let our joining be upon what is good; and let our parting, when you separate between us, be to what is good.
[Recorded by at-Tabaranī (al-Kabir 8993, 8994), ‘Abd-ur-Razzāq (10460, 10461), and others. Verified to be authentic by al-Albānī (Adab-uz-Zifaf p. 96)]
10. Invoking Allah’s Protection At Intercourse
One of the noble goals of intercourse is producing righteous offspring. This is indicated in Ibn Mas’ud’s above supplication.
In addition, it is important for the spouses to beseech Allāh to keep Satan away from their offspring.
Ibn ‘Abbas (رضي الله عنه) reported that the Messenger (ﷺ) said:
“When one of you is about to approach his wife, if he says:
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ، اللَّهُمَّ جَنِّبْنَا الشَّيْطَانَ، وَجَنِّبِ الشَّيْطَانَ مَا رَزَقْـتَنَا
Transliteration
Bismillāh. Allahumma jannib-nash-Shaytan, wa janni-bish-Shaytāna mā razaqtanā.
Meaning
With Allah’s name. O Allah, keep Satan away from us and from what You provide for us.
If it is then decreed that a child ensues (from that intercourse), Satan will never harm it.”
[Recorded by al-Bukhārī (141, 3271, 3283, 5165, 6388, 7396), Muslim (1434), and others]
11. Dua Asking Allah For Children
Zachariah called upon his Lord, saying,
رَبِّ هَبْ لِي مِنْ لَدُنْكَ ذُرِّيَّةً طَيِّبَةً ۖ إِنَّكَ سَمِيعُ الدُّعَاءِ
Transliteration
Rabbi habli min ladunka dhurriyyatan tayyibatan innaka samiʿud-duʿa.
My Lord, grant me from Yourself a good offspring. Indeed, You are the Hearer of supplication.
[Surah Aal-e-Imran (3:38)]
12. Dua
And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord:
رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الْوَارِثِينَ
Transliteration
Rabbi laa ta-dharnee fardan wa anta khayrul-waaritheen.
Meaning
My Lord! Leave me not childless, though You are the Best of inheritors.
[Surah Al-‘Anbyaa’ (21:89)]
Note: This dua was made by Zakariyah (zechariah) (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), for he had no children, and Allah (subhanahu-wa-ta’ala) answered his prayer and gave him the prophet Yahya as a son.
