Monday 15 December 2025 – 02:53 PM
We offer a supplication when the rain falls for sustenance. The Egyptian Fatwa House has confirmed that the time of rain falling is one of the times in which supplication is recommended, because of the divine blessings and vast mercy it carries, noting that the Sunnah of the Prophet has guided comprehensive supplications to be said when the rain falls and after it and upon hearing thunder, in addition to urging people to ask forgiveness a lot and ask God for relief and abundance of sustenance.
A supplication when rain falls for sustenance
Regarding a supplication when rain falls for sustenance, Dr. Salama Daoud, President of Al-Azhar University, explained that the supplication of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, when raining rain represents a high example of eloquence and etiquette with God, as he combined brevity and depth of meaning, and was keen to direct the blessing, not to raise it, in a clear indication of gratitude to God and good supplication to Him.
- Oh God, grant me an ample, lawful, good and blessed provision
- Oh God, make this rain a reason to open the doors of livelihood for me
- Oh God, fill my heart with certainty and bless me from where I do not expect
- Oh God, as You sent down rain, send down goodness and blessings upon me
- Oh God, grant me constant and uninterrupted sustenance
- Oh God, bless my work, my money, and my family
- Oh God, protect me with your lawful things from your forbidden things, and make me rich with your grace above those other than you
- Oh God, make this rain a relief for all worries and distress
- Oh God, grant me contentment and breadth of living
- Oh God, open for me the doors of your grace and mercy
Prayers for rain are answered
As for the prayer for rain to be answered, the Egyptian Fatwa House confirmed that the falling of rain is one of the times when supplications are answered, and the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, has been reported to have famous supplications that are said at this time, including his saying when the rain falls: O God, grant us a beneficial rain, and after it: Give us rain by God’s grace and mercy, in an emphasis on gratitude for the blessing and attributing it to God.
- Oh God, grant us a beneficial disaster
- Oh God, make this rain a mercy, not a torment
- May God accept our prayers in this blessed hour
- Oh God, forgive us and have mercy on us with your vast mercy
- Oh God, fix our religion and our world for us
- Oh God, heal our sick and have mercy on our dead
- Oh God, remove the calamity and epidemic from us
- Oh God, make this rain good for the country and the people
- Oh God, answer us as you promised your righteous servants
- Oh God, increase our faith, certainty and obedience
Prayer for thunder, lightning and rain
Regarding the supplication for thunder, lightning, and rain, Dar Al-Iftaa explained that it is part of the Sunnah of the Prophet to supplicate when hearing thunder, and from it is the saying of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: Glory be to Him Whose praise praises thunder and whose fear the angels glorify. Here are many forms of supplication that a Muslim can repeat:
- Glory be to Him whom the thunder praises and the angels glorify in His fear
- Oh God, do not kill us with your anger and do not destroy us with your torment
- Oh God, make this rain safe and sound
- Oh God, protect us from all harm and evil
- Oh God, make us safe from every fear
- Oh God, grant us mercy and forgiveness at this time
- Oh God, protect us from temptations, whether apparent or hidden
- May God protect our country and our people from all harm
- Oh God, make this rain a strength for faith in our hearts
- Oh God, end well for us and make our end good
