Duas for seeking knowledge, understanding, and wisdom
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, goodly provision, and deeds accepted.
O Allah, grant me guidance of piety, and purification of the soul, and forgive me. Make me understand, and teach me, and make mention for me. Open to me the doors of Your grace and Your knowledge. Strengthen my faculties with patience, and make my tongue moist with remembrance (of You).
O Allah, teach me the Book (Al-Quran) and wisdom, and save me from knowledge that does not benefit. Make me benefit from what You have taught me, and increase me in knowledge.
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, goodly provision, and acceptable deeds.
O Allah, teach him the Book and wisdom, and make him understand religion.
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, pure provisions, and accepted deeds.
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from knowledge that does not benefit, from a heart that does not fear You, from a soul that is never satisfied, and from a prayer that is not answered. My Lord, increase me in knowledge.
O Allah, make beneficial for me what You have taught me, teach me what will be beneficial for me, and increase me in knowledge.
O Allah, make beneficial for me what You have taught me, and teach me that which will be beneficial for me, and increase me in knowledge.
O Allah, benefit me from what You have taught me, and teach me what is beneficial for me, and increase me in knowledge.
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from knowledge that does not benefit, from a heart that does not fear [You], from a soul that is never satisfied, and from a supplication that is not heard.