ENTERING
بِسْمِ اللهِ اَللّهُمَّ إِنِّيْ أَعُوْذُ بِكَ مِنَ الخبُثِ وَ الخَبَائِثِ
“[Bismillaahi] Allaahumma ‘innee ‘a’oothu bika minal-khubthi walkhabaa’ith.”
(Before entering) [In the Name of Allah] . (Then) O Allah , I seek protection in You from the male and female unclean spirits.
[Bukhari]
LEAVINGغُفْرَانَكَ
“Ghufraanaka”
I ask You (Allah) for forgiveness.
[Abu Dawud, Ibn Majaah & At-Tirmidhi]
(Source: islamawareness.net)
In his explanation of ‘The Four Principles’, Shaykh Zayd bin Muhammad bin Haadee Al-Madkhalee- May Allaah preserve him- whilst commentating on the meaning and virtue of the opening supplications made for the reader in ‘The Four Principles’ states the following:
Supplication is according to four ways:
- That a person supplicates for himself.
- That a person supplicates for someone else.
- That a person supplicates for himself and someone else using the plural pronoun.
- That a person supplicates for himself and someone else, so he begins with (supplicating for) himself and then someone else.
And in this manner occur the supplications in the verses of the Noble Qur’an, from them the statement of Allaah The Exalted, (the translated meaning in English): ”Our Lord! Forgive us and our brethren who have preceded us in Faith..” (V.59:10). So it is not from the correct etiquettes of supplication that a person supplicates for someone else and then supplicates for himself. And for this reason the Scholars criticized Ibn As-Salaah when he said in his Muqadimah: ”Know, may Allaah grant you and me knowledge.” For rather he should have said: ”Know, may Allaah grant me and you knowledge.” (Mu’jam Al-Manaahee Al-Laftheyah p.106)
Taken from: Abraz Al-Fawaaíd Min Arba’ Al-Qawaaid (p.7), by Shaykh Zayd bin Muhammad bin Haadee Al-Madkhalee
Translation: Umm ‘Abdillah Al-Hashimi
Checked and reviewed by Abu ‘Abdillah Owais Al-Hashimi
(Source: qawaariyyah.wordpress.com)
