Basmalah and invitation to send blessings upon the Prophet
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Before you continue, kindly recite Darood Sharif.
اللَّهُمَّ مُنْزِلَ الْكِتَاب سَرِيعَ الْحِسَاب اهْزِم الأَحْزَاب اللَّهُمَّ اهْزِمْهُمْ وَ زَلْزِلْهُم
O Allah, Revealer of the Book, Swift to account, defeat the groups (of disbelievers). O Allah, defeat them and shake them.
Reference: Muslim 3/1362.
اللَّهُمَّ اكْفِنِيهِم بمَا شِئْت
O Allah, suffice (i.e. protect) me against them however You wish.
Reference: Muslim 4/2300.
الاستعاذة بالله منه
Seeking refuge with Allah against him (i.e. by saying I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the outcast).
Reference: Abu Dawud 1/206, At-Tirmidhi. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 1/77,
and Surat Al-Mu'minun, 23:98-9.
الْأَذَانُ
The call to prayer - 'Athan.
Reference: Muslim 1/291, Al-Bukhari 1/151.
الْأَذْكَارُ وَقِرَاءَةُ الْقُرْآنِ
Saying words of Allah's remembrance (Thikr) and recitation of the Qur'an.
Reference: "Do not turn your homes into graveyards, surely the Devil flees from the
house in which Surat Al-Baqarah is read," Muslim 1/539. The Devil is also
driven out by the invocations for morning and evening, those that are said
before sleeping and upon waking up, those for entering and leaving the
house, including those for entering and leaving the mosque, and by many
other authentic invocations taught to us by the Prophet (ﷺ) such as the
reading of 'Ayatul-Kursi, (Al-Baqarah 2:255), and the last two 'Ayat of
Surat Al-Baqarah before going to sleep. Whoever says: "There is none worthy
of worship but Allah alone, Who has no partner, His is the dominion and His
is the praise, and he is Able to do all things," one hundred times, it will
be a protection for him from the Devil throughout the day.'
كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يعوذ الحسن والحسين " أعيذكما بكلمات الله التامة ، من كل شيطان وهامة ، ومن كل عينِ لامة "
I seek protection for you in the Perfect Words of Allah from every devil and every beast, and from every envious blameworthy eye.
Reference: Al-Bukhari4/119.
.(مَنْ حَفِظَ عَشْرَ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ سُورَةِ الْكَهْفِ عُصِمَ مِنَ الدَّجَّالِ) ، وَالْاسْتِعَاذَةُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ فِتْنَتِهِ عَقِبَ التَّشَهُّدِ الْأَخِيرِ مِنْ كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ.
Whoever memorizes ten 'Ayat (Verses) from the beginning of Surat Al-Kahf, will be protected from the False Messiah 1 if he recites in every prayer after the final Tashahhud before ending the prayer, seeking the protection of Allah from the trials of the False Messiah.
Reference: 1 Muslim 1/555, another version mentions the last ten 'Ayat, Muslim 1/556.
2 See invocations no. 55 and 56 of this book.
أَعُوذُ بكَلِمَاتِ اللهِ التَّامَّاتِ الَّتِي لَا يُجَاوِزُهُنَّ بَرٌّ ولَا فَاجرٌ مِنْ شّرِّ مَا خَلقَ، وبَرَأَ وذَرَأَ، ومِنْ شَرِّ مَا يَنْزِلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وِمنْ شَرِّ مَا يَعْرُجُ فيهَا، ومِن شَرِّ مَا ذَرَأَ في الأَرْضِ ومِنْ شَرِّ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا، وِمنْ شَرِّ فِتَنِ اللَّيْلِ والنَّهارِ، ومِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ طارِقٍ إِلَّا طَارِقاً يَطْرُقُ بخَيْرٍ يَا رَحْمَنُ
I seek refuge in the Perfect Words of Allah -which neither the upright nor the corrupt may overcome - from the evil of what He created, of what He made, and of what He scattered, from the evil of what descends from the heavens, and of what rises up to them, from the evil of what He scattered in the earth, and of what emerges from it, from the evil trials of night and day, and from the evil of every night visitor, except the night visitor who comes with good. O Merciful One.
Reference: Ahmad 3/419, with an authentic chain of narration, and Ibn As-Sunni (no.
637). Al-Arna'ut, graded its chain authentic in his checking of Al-'Aqidah
At-Tahawiyyah p. 133. See also Majma'uz-Zawa'id, 10/127.