The Ruling on Sleeping on the Stomach and the Narrated Supplication for Sleep
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, regarding a person who wants to sleep, I read that he should sleep on his right side. What is the supplication for that? And what is the ruling on sleeping on the stomach?
The Shaykh:
Sleeping on the stomach is disliked, but the best way to sleep is to lie on your right side facing the qiblah; that is the best. Yes.
The questioner:
And what is the narrated supplication, Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Allah says: O Allah, I have placed my side to You, and I have submitted my self to You, and I have turned my face. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, regarding a person who wants to sleep, I read that he should sleep on his right side. What is the supplication for that? And what is the ruling on sleeping on the stomach?
The Shaykh:
Sleeping on the stomach is disliked, but the best way to sleep is to lie on your right side facing the qiblah; that is the best. Yes.
The questioner:
And what is the narrated supplication, Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Allah says: O Allah, I have placed my side to You, and I have submitted my self to You, and I have turned my face
to You. There is no refuge or escape or shelter from You except to You. I believe in Your Book which You revealed, and in Your Prophet whom You sent.
إليك، لا لجا ولا منجا ولا ملتجأ منك إلا إليك، آمنت بكتابك الذي أنزلت، وبنبيك الذي أرسلت
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع فضيلة الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7469 — youtube.com (7:50)
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