Powerful Duas for Rizq, Success and Provision
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Rizq means provision, and it is broader than money. In the sources it covers a spouse, children, health, knowledge, time and contentment, and any page that treats it as income alone has narrowed it before starting.
What follows is what the Quran and the authentic Sunnah attach to provision. What follows it, at the end, is what they do not — because this is a subject where a great deal is promised on no authority at all.
Istighfar
Nuh's address to his people, in the Quran: I said, seek forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. He will send rain upon you in showers, and give you increase in wealth and children, and make for you gardens and rivers.
The connection is stated by the verse itself, not inferred. Seeking forgiveness is placed before provision, wealth, offspring and land.
Astaghfirullah, said with meaning, is the shortest form. The Prophet said it more than seventy times a day, as recorded in al-Bukhari.
Taqwa
And whoever fears Allah, He will make for him a way out, and will provide for him from where he does not expect. Surah at-Talaq.
This verse is where the phrase "from where he does not expect" comes from, and it is worth reading in context: it appears in the middle of legislation about divorce and maintenance — that is, in the middle of a hard financial situation.
Tawakkul
The Prophet said: if you were to rely upon Allah with true reliance, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds — they go out hungry in the morning and return full in the evening. Narrated by al-Tirmidhi and graded authentic.
The image is precise and it is often quoted with the wrong half emphasised. The birds go out. Reliance in this hadith is what accompanies effort, not what replaces it.
The Narrated Supplications
O Allah, suffice me with what You have made lawful against what You have made unlawful, and enrich me by Your bounty so that I need none but You. Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, who graded it hasan. The Prophet taught it to a man who came asking for help with a debt.
O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, goodly provision, and accepted deeds. Said after the Fajr prayer. Narrated by Ibn Majah.
And the two on the tongue at all times: la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah, and the salawat.
What Also Increases It
Ties of kinship. The Prophet said: whoever would like his provision to be expanded and his life extended, let him maintain his ties of kinship. In al-Bukhari.
Charity. The Quran: whatever you spend, He will replace it. And the Prophet: wealth does not decrease from charity.
Hajj and Umrah. The Prophet said they remove poverty and sins as the bellows removes impurity from iron. Narrated by al-Tirmidhi.
Recitations People Keep
Many people keep a fixed daily count — a hundred istighfar, a hundred salawat, the recitation of Surah al-Waqi'ah in the evening, which is widely kept for provision, and la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah through the day.
What these have in common is repetition. A short formula held every day does more than a long one said once, and every report on this subject points at consistency rather than at volume.
What Barakah Means
The reports use barakah far more than they use increase. Barakah is not a larger number; it is a given amount going further than it should — the salary that covers what it should not have covered, the small meal that fed everyone.
That is what is actually being promised, and it is not measurable in the way people want provision to be measurable. A person whose income did not change but whose debts cleared and whose anxiety about money lifted has received exactly what these supplications ask for.