The ruling on wiping the body after prayer with the recitation of the Mu'awwidhat

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, and may He grant you abundant reward for this blessed meeting. I am an imam, I am the imam of a mosque, and I notice a person who brings his palms together after every prayer, recites the Mu'awwidhat, and wipes with them as much of his body as he can. So I told him, "This is a established sunnah for sleep, and it is an act of worship, so do not do it except at its proper time." He said, "This is not an act of worship, but rather a supplication." What is the correct position on this?

Answer:
Supplication is the greatest of the types of worship. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And Allah the Exalted said: meaning that supplication is called a religion. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) called it worship. There is no doubt that reciting these three surahs—al-Ikhlas, the two Mu'awwidhat—and blowing into the palms and then wiping the body, this is for sleep. This is what is established from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). As for after the prayers, you also recite these surahs.
But without blowing into your palms and wiping. This is not the place for wiping and blowing; that is only for sleep. Everything has its time and its regulations. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,