What are the morning adhkar? They are the short remembrances the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ taught us to say after Fajr, handing the whole day over to Allah before it starts. Here are six of them, word by word, in a size a child can actually finish.
The Prophet ﷺ would read Surah al-Ikhlas, Surah al-Falaq and Surah an-Nas three times each in the morning and in the evening, and said they are enough to protect you from everything. Read them with Sofia, then come back and finish your morning.
Dhikr works in pairs. The evening adhkar are almost the same words, with the first one swapped, so a child who knows this page is already most of the way through that one.
Common questions about the morning adhkar and how to teach them to your child.
The morning adhkar are a set of short remembrances of Allah that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ taught his companions to say at the start of each day. They are not requests like a dua — they are statements: that the day belongs to Allah, that we are pleased with Him as our Lord, and that nothing can harm us while His name is on our lips.
This page carries six of them, chosen because they are short enough for a young child to finish: Asbahna wa asbahal-mulku lillah, Subhanallahi wa bihamdih, Raditu billahi Rabba, Allahumma bika asbahna, Bismillahilladhi la yadurru, and La ilaha illa Allahu wahdah.
The time for the morning adhkar begins at Fajr and lasts until the sun is well up. The best moment is straight after the Fajr prayer, while the house is still quiet.
If your family misses that window, say them anyway. A child who says the adhkar at breakfast has still remembered Allah before the day carried them off, and that is the point.
Subhanallahi wa bihamdih — three words, and the meaning is simply "Glory be to Allah, and all praise is His." A two or three year old can say it while their shoes are being put on.
Once that one is comfortable, add Asbahna wa asbahal-mulku lillah. Two adhkar said every single morning are worth far more than six said once.
The adhkar are said in Arabic, because the wording itself is what the Prophet ﷺ taught. That is why every dhikr on this page is broken into single words with its own transliteration underneath, so a child who cannot read Arabic yet can still say it correctly.
Understanding matters too, so read the English meaning together. But the words your child repeats out loud should be the Arabic ones.
The sunnah counts vary: some adhkar are said once, some three times, and some a hundred times. On this page each card shows its own count, and the ones with larger sunnah counts are set to three so a child can complete them.
Three is a starting line, not a ceiling. As your child grows, walk them up toward the full counts named in the hadith.
Anchor it to something that already happens every day — the moment after Fajr, or the minute before shoes go on. A habit needs a hook, not a reminder.
Say the adhkar out loud with your child rather than asking them to say it to you. Children join in with what they hear a parent doing long before they will perform it on request.