salahdin
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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
[رَّبَّنَآ إِنَّنَآ سَمِعْنَا مُنَادِياً يُنَادِى لِلإِيمَـنِ]
("Our Lord! Verily, we have heard the call of one calling to faith,''), a caller who calls to faith, referring to the Messenger of Allah ,
[أَنْ ءَامِنُواْ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَـَامَنَّا]
(`Believe in your Lord,' and we have believed), accepted his call and followed him.
[رَبَّنَا فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا]
("Our Lord! Forgive us our sins''), on account of our faith and obeying Your Prophet
[فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا]
("Forgive us our sins''), and cover them,[وَكَفِّرْ عَنَّا سَيِّئَـتِنَا]
("and expiate from us our evil deeds''), between us and You, in private,
[وَتَوَفَّنَا مَعَ الاٌّبْرَارِ]
("and make us die along with Al-Abrar.''), join us with the righteous people.
[رَبَّنَا وَءَاتِنَا مَا وَعَدتَّنَا عَلَى رُسُلِكَ]
("Our Lord! Grant us what You promised unto us through Your Messengers'') for our faith in Your Messengers, or, and this explanation is better; grant us what You promised us by the words of Your Messengers,[وَلاَ تُخْزِنَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَـمَةِ]
("and disgrace us not on the Day of Resurrection,''), before all creation,
[إِنَّكَ لاَ تُخْلِفُ الْمِيعَادَ]
("for You never break (Your) Promise.''), for surely, the promise that You conveyed to Your Messengers, which includes us being resurrected before You, shall certainly come to pass.
It was the Prophet's tradition to recite the ten Ayat at the end of [Surah] Al `Imran when he woke up at night for (voluntary) prayer
tafsir ibn kathir