Quran Universe
14:40

رَبِّ ٱجۡعَلۡنِي مُقِيمَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِيۚ رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلۡ دُعَآءِ

Rabbi ijAAalnee muqeema alssalati wamin thurriyyatee rabbana wtaqabbal duAAai

My Lord, make me an establisher of prayer, and [many] from my descendants. Our Lord, and accept my supplication.

Word by word
  1. رَبِّMy Lord
  2. ٱجۡعَلۡنِيMake me
  3. مُقِيمَan establisher
  4. ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ(of) the prayer
  5. وَمِنand from
  6. ذُرِّيَّتِيۚmy offsprings
  7. رَبَّنَاOur Lord
  8. وَتَقَبَّلۡand accept
  9. دُعَآءِmy prayer
Ibrahim · 14:40Makkah

Make me one who keeps up the prayer, and my children too.

Ibrahim asks for prayer before anything else

Ibrahim's dua
mekeep up the prayer
my offspringthem as well
and
accept my duaall of it
What he wanted for his children
success, wealtha good career
prayerkept with its limits

After thanking Allah for his sons, Ibrahim asks: make me one who establishes prayer, preserving its obligations, and my offspring too. Ibn Kathir says he then asked Allah to accept all the duas he had made.

You pray for your children to get into a good school, find a good job, marry well. Ibrahim, a prophet, still asked to be made one who prays. Ask for prayer for yourself and them first.

My children will pick up prayer on their own.

Prayer for me and my children is worth asking Allah for every day.

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Memorise this dua today: Rabbi ij'alni muqeem as-salati wa min dhurriyyati.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 14:38)

"O our Lord! Certainly, You know what we conceal and what we reveal. Nothing on the earth or in the heaven is hidden from Allah. (38)"All praise is due to Allah, Who has given me in old age Isma'il and Ishaq. Verily, my Lord is indeed the All-Hearer of invocations. (39)"O my Lord! Make me one who performs Salah, and (also) from my offspring, our Lord! And accept my invocation. (40)"Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and (all) the believers on the Day when the reckoning will be established.") Ibn Jarir At-Tabari said, "Allah said that Ibrahim, His Khalil, sai (41)

رَبَّنَا إِنَّكَ تَعْلَمُ مَا نُخْفِي وَمَا نُعْلِنُ

(O our Lord! Certainly, You know what we conceal and what we reveal.) meaning, 'You know the intention behind my supplication for the people of this town, seeking Your pleasure in sincerity to You. You know all things, apparent and hidden, and nothing escapes Your knowledge on the earth or in heaven.'" He next praised and thanked his Lord the Exalted and Most Honored for granting him offspring after he became old,

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي وَهَبَ لِي عَلَى الْكِبَرِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإِسْحَاقَ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي لَسَمِيعُ الدُّعَاءِ

(All praise is due to Allah, Who has given me in old age Isma'il (Ishmael) and Ishaq (Isaac). Verily, my Lord is indeed the All-Hearer of invocations.) 'He accepts the supplication of those who invoke Him, and has accepted my invocation when I asked Him to grant me offspring. ' Ibrahim said next,

رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي مُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةِ

(O my Lord! Make me one who performs Salah,), preserving its obligations and limits,

وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِي

(and (also) from my offspring,), make them among those who establish the prayer, as well,

رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلْ دُعَاءِ

(our Lord! And accept my invocation.), all of my invocation which I invoked You with herein,

رَبَّنَا اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ

(Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents,) Ibrahim said this before he declared himself innocent from his father, after he became sure that he was an enemy of Allah,

وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ 

(and the believers), all of them,

يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْحِسَابُ

(on the Day when the reckoning will be established.) on the Day when You will reckon Your servants and recompense or reward them for their deeds - good for good and evil for evil.