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Salah Hadya for Walidayn

Q:

Assalamu Alikum,

My parents have died and i want to perform 2 rakat nafil of Bakhsish o Maghfirat for them, can i perform do this? if yes then please tell me what is best way to do that???

Muhammad Shahid
Lahore

A:

Assalamu Alaykum

Thank you for your Question.

May Allah bless your parents.

it is indeed a great act to pray for you r parents. It is recommended to perform Salah Hadyah al-Walidayn as follows

It is a 2 Rak’at salat.

Pray it like the Fajr salat.

(i) Make niyyat of salat for hadiya of walidayn.

(ii) In the first Rak’at, after the recitation of al Fatihah, recite following dua 10 times. 

رَبَّنَا اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْحِسَابُ

Rabbanaghfir Lee Wa Liwaalidayya Wa Lil-Mu’mineena Yawma Yaqoomul H’isaab

O our Lord, forgive me and my parents and believers on the day when the reckoning shall come to pass. (Sura Ibrahim, 14: 41)

(iii) In the second Rak’at, after the recitation of al Fatihah, recite following  dua ‘a 10 times

رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًا

Rabbighfir Lee Wa Liwaalidayya Wa Liman Dakhala Baytiya Mu’minaw Wa Lil-Moomineena Al Mu’minaat Wa Laa Tazidiz’z’aalimeena Illaa Tabaaraa

O Lord, forgive me, my parents and him who enters my abode as a believer, and the believing men and believing women, and do not give the unjust increase save in perdition. (Sura Nuh, 71:28)

(iv) After the salam recite following dua’a , 10 times.

رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا

Rabbir-H’amhumaa Kamaa Rabbayaanee S’agheeraa

O my Lord, have mercy on them (parents) just as they nourished me when I was small. (Sura al-‘Isra’ or Bani Isra’il, 17: 24).

You may also want to occasionally Do their Qadha salah. As Wajib Salah hold a lot of importance, and doing those on their behalf will help them pave their path in their realm.

May Allah bless you and keep you successful.
N.S.Jaffery