اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّىْ اَسْئَلُكَ الْعَفْوَ وَالْعَافِيَةَ وَالْمُعَافَاتَ الدَّاْئِمَةَ فِى الدِّيْنِ وَالدُّنْيَا وَالْاخِرٰةِ

O Allah! I ask You for forgiveness, and well-being, and perpetual safety in the matters of my Deen, Dunya and Akhirah.

The word “Afwun” is derived from the meaning of “Mahwoon” which means to rub out. We therefore supplicate, O Allah! Please rub out, not only my sins, but also the evidence of my sins. When a person commits a sin there are four witnesses to it (the ground upon which he committed the sin, the limbs of the body, the angels and one’s book of deeds). When one recites the above Dua, Allah Ta’ala rubs out the Gunah, washes it away and destroys it. Allah Ta’ala does not command the angels to destroy the evidence, so that, on the day of Qiyaamah, the angels Ihsaan is not on us in that they could remind us that they had rubbed our sins out for us.

The second part of the Dua we are asking for A’fiyat which means that we are asking for safety in Deen from all forms of Fitna. Whatever goes wrong in a person’s life is because of the sins he has committed.

The third part of the Dua is asking for perpetual safety which means that you are asking Allah Ta’ala to protect you from people causing any difficulty to you.

Finally, you are asking for the above things in Deen, inyour worldly life and in the hereafter.