Duas for sitting together, starting meetings, and leaving gatherings
O Allah, I ask You to enable me to do good deeds and abandon evil deeds, and to love the poor. I ask You to forgive me and have mercy on me. And when You intend to test Your creation, take me to Yourself without my being tested. And I ask You for Your love, and the love of those who love You, and the love of deeds which bring me closer to Your love.
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, goodly provision, and acceptable deeds.
O Allah, remove the anger from his heart, forgive his sin, protect him from the evil of trials, make him firm, and do not let him go astray. O Allah, reconcile between them, guide them to the paths of peace, bring them out of darkness into light by the permission of their Lord, and guide them to Your straight path.
In the name of Allah, I rely on Allah, and there is no might nor power except with Allah.
In the name of Allah, with whose name nothing on earth or in heaven can cause harm, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
Glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You! I bear witness that there is no god but You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in repentance.
In the name of Allah, I place my trust in Allah, and there is no might nor power except with Allah.
In the name of Allah, I place my trust in Allah. And there is no might nor power except with Allah.
My Lord, increase me in knowledge.
O Allah, we ask You to make this gathering a blessed gathering, and to make our parting after it a guarded parting, and do not place among us or with us anyone miserable or deprived.
Glory be to Him Who has subjected this to us, and we could never have accomplished it. And indeed, to our Lord we will return.
O Allah, remove my ignorance from me, make me forget my mistakes, let me taste the blessings of Your knowledge, and bring forth the spirit of wisdom into my chest.