“My Lord, Forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your mercy, for you are the Most Merciful of those who show mercy.”

رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِأَخِي وَأَدْخِلْنَا فِي رَحْمَتِكَ ۖ وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ

Rabbi ighfir lee wali-akhee wa-adkhilnaa fee rahmatika wa-anta arhamur-raahimeen

Surah Al-‘A`rāf, verse 151

This is the prayer of Prophet Musa Alaihissalaam.

It can be recited for the following purposes.

• Forgiveness of your sins
• Forgiveness of your brother
• To gain Allah’s Mercy

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Word-by-word Meanings:

Allah describes the misguidance of those who worshipped the calf that As-Samiri made for them from the ornaments they borrowed from the Copts. He made the shape of a calf with these ornaments and threw in it a handful of dust from the trace of the horse that the Angel Jibril was riding, and the calf seemed to moo.

Allah says in the Holy Quran:-

148. “And the people of Musa made in his absence, out of their ornaments, the image of a calf (for worship). It had a sound. They took it (for worship) and they were wrongdoers”

This occurred after Musa Alaihissalaam went for the appointed term with his Lord, where Allah told him about what happened when he was on Mount Tur.

(149. And when they regretted and saw that they had gone astray, they said: “If our Lord have not mercy upon us and forgive us, we shall certainly be of the losers”)

(150. And when Musa returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said: “What an evil thing is that which you have done during my absence. Did you hasten in matter of your Lord” And he threw down the Tablets and seized his brother by (the hair of) his head and dragged him towards him for Musa feared that Harun might have not tried hard enough to forbid them from their evil action.

He (Harun) said: “O son of my mother! Indeed the people judged me weak and were about to kill me, so make not the enemies rejoice over me, nor put me among the people who are wrongdoers.”

When Musa Alaihissalaam was satisfied that his brother was innocent, he made this supplication.

(151. He (Musa) said: “O my Lord! Forgive me and my brother, and admit us into Your mercy, for You are the Most Merciful of those who show mercy.”)

(And Harun indeed had said to them beforehand: “O my people! You are being tried in this, and verily, your Lord is (Allah) the Most Gracious, so follow me and obey my order.”) 20:90