Dilras Banu Begum (Persian: دلرس‌ بانو بیگم‎‎, Urdu: دلرس بانو بیگم‎) (c. 1622 – 8 October 1657) was the first wife and chief consort of Emperor Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors. She is also known by her posthumous title, Rabia-ud-Daurani ("Rabia of the Age"). The Bibi Ka Maqbara in Aurangabad, which bears a striking resemblance to the Taj Mahal, was commissioned by her husband to act as her final resting place.

Dilras was born a princess of the prominent Safavid dynasty of Iran (Persia), and was a daughter of Mirza Badi-uz-Zaman Safavi (a descendant of Shah Ismail I) and his wife, Nauras Banu Begum. She married Prince Muhi-ud-din (later known as 'Aurangzeb' upon his accession) in 1637 and bore him five children, including: Muhammad Azam Shah (the heir apparent anointed by Aurangzeb), who temporarily succeeded his father as Mughal emperor, the gifted poetess Princess Zeb-un-Nissa (Aurangzeb's favorite daughter), Princess Zinat-un-Nissa (titled Padshah Begum), and Sultan Muhammad Akbar, the Emperor's best loved son.

Dilras died possibly of puerperal fever in 1657, a month after giving birth to her fifth child, Muhammad Akbar, and just a year before her husband acceded to the throne after a fratricidal war of succession.

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