The Time for the Traveler's Supplication
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, regarding the traveler's supplication, when does he say it? And if the traveler supplicates while he is still outside his house,
Answer:
The traveler supplicates when he mounts[Az-Zukhruf 43:13] and indeed to our Lord we shall return. This is the traveler's supplication, derived from this verse: "that you may be set upon their backs." So the traveler's supplication is said when mounting a beast, a car, an airplane, or a ship. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, regarding the traveler's supplication, when does he say it? And if the traveler supplicates while he is still outside his house,
Answer:
The traveler supplicates when he mounts
That you may settle yourselves upon their backs and then remember the favor of your Lord when you have settled upon them and say. "Exalted is He who has subjected this to us, and we could not have [otherwise] subdued it.
لِتَسْتَوُوا عَلَىٰ ظُهُورِهِ ثُمَّ تَذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ رَبِّكُمْ إِذَا اسْتَوَيْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ وَتَقُولُوا سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَٰذَا وَمَا كُنَّا لَهُ مُقْرِنِينَ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/051 — archive.org (11:32)
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