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Dua After Eating
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَنِي هَذَا، وَرَزَقَنِيهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَوْلٍ مِنِّي وَلَا قُوَّةٍ
Alhamdu lillahil-ladhi at'amani hadha, wa razaqanihi min ghayri hawlin minni wa la quwwah
Praise be to Allah who fed me this and provided it for me without any power or might on my part.
Sunan Abi Dawud 4023; Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3458 · Hasan
Where this dua comes from
Reported from Mu'adh ibn Anas, this dua comes with an unusually specific promise attached in the hadith: that saying it is followed by forgiveness of past sins. Whatever weight one gives that detail, the wording itself is worth sitting with — it credits the food not to one's own effort (cooking it, buying it, earning the money for it) but to provision that arrived "without any power or might on my part," a phrase (la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah) that appears independently elsewhere in the tradition as one of the more concentrated statements of reliance on Allah. It's typically paired with the shorter, more common closing phrase Alhamdulillah on its own for less formal meals.
When to recite
Immediately after finishing a meal.