Remembrance 16 from Chapter 60

Allāhumma Fāṭira-s-samāwāti wa-l-arḍ, ‘Ālima-l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādah, Rabba kulli shay’in wa Malīkah, ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Ant. A‘ūdhu bika min sharri nafsī wa min sharri-sh-Shayṭāni wa shirkih.

And we relate from the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī and others, with ṣaḥīḥ isnāds from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah , as we previously mentioned in the chapter on What to Say in the Morning and Evening (51) in which he told a story about Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq . The Prophet said: “Say: O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the Unseen and the Seen, Lord and Sovereign of all things, I bear witness that there is no god but You. I seek Your protection from the evil of my ego and the evil and polytheism of Shayṭān.” He said: “Say this when you get up in the morning and in the evening and when you go to bed.”237

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