Duas for various evening activities and settling down
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, goodly provision, and acceptable deeds.
O Listener of supplication, You are my Lord and the Lord of all things. I seek refuge in You from all evil, and I ask You for the best of all evil, and I ask You to remove hardship from me, and to grant me a place in Your pleasure through Your bestowal.
I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created.
O Allah, I seek Your guidance based on Your knowledge, and seek ability through Your power, and I ask of You Your great bounty. For indeed You have power, and I have no power; You have knowledge, and I have no knowledge; and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if You know that this matter (and he specifies the matter) is good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my Hereafter - or he said: in my present and my future - then decree it for me, and make it easy for me, and then bless it for me. And if You know that this matter is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my Hereafter - or he said: in my present and my future - then turn it away from me, and turn me away from it, and decree for me whatever is good, and make me content with it.
In the name of Allah, with whose name nothing can cause harm in the earth nor in the heavens, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
In Your name, my Lord, I lay down my side, and in Your name I rise. If You should take my soul, then have mercy upon it. And if You should return my soul, then protect it with what You protect Your righteous servants.
I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from His anger and His punishment, and from the evil of His servants, and from the promptings of the devils and from their presence.
O Allah, by Your grace we have reached the evening, and by Your grace we have reached the morning. By Your grace we live, and by Your grace we die, and to You is the final return.
O Allah, I am Your servant, son of Your servant, son of Your female servant. My forelock is in Your hand. Your judgment upon me is assured, and Your decree concerning me is just. I ask You by every Name belonging to You which You have named Yourself with, or revealed in Your Book, or taught to any of Your creation, or preserved in the knowledge of the unseen with You, that You make the Qur'an the spring of my heart, and the light of my breast, and a departure for my sadness and a release for my anxiety.
In the name of Allah, with Whose name nothing in the earth nor in the heavens can cause harm, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, good provision, and deeds accepted [by You].