The Travel Supplication in the Singular or Plural Form
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The questioner:
And this is a testimony before Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) and before the attendees that he loves you for the sake of Allah, and he asks Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) to forgive you, to grant you success, and to reward you with good for what you do in defending the creed and the Shari'ah. And he says: I ask you, Your Eminence the Shaykh, about the travel supplication: do I recite it alone in the singular form, or is the plural form required?
The Shaykh:
First, we ask Allah to love you as you have loved us in Him. As for your saying that you are defending Islam, you are not at that level; I am less than that and I am falling short, and I seek Allah's forgiveness. But we hope that Allah will support Islam by the support of One who is with Him, and that He will cause the enemies of Islam to fail by His might and power, (Glorified and Exalted is He). And as for the question, yes.
The questioner:
The question says: the travel supplication.
The Shaykh:
The supplication for travel. It is reported that when one mounts the vehicle one travels in, whether a beast, a car, an airplane, or a ship, one says, "Glory be to Him who," and recites the verse[Az-Zukhruf 43:13-14] then says Sahih Muslim 1342. And remove from us its hardship Sunan Abi Dawud 2598Hasan Sahih (Al-Albani) We seek refuge, we seek refuge in You from the roughness of the journey, its unpleasant appearance, and a bad change in wealth and family, whether said in the plural form or the singular form of the verse, for he recites it as it is. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
And this is a testimony before Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) and before the attendees that he loves you for the sake of Allah, and he asks Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) to forgive you, to grant you success, and to reward you with good for what you do in defending the creed and the Shari'ah. And he says: I ask you, Your Eminence the Shaykh, about the travel supplication: do I recite it alone in the singular form, or is the plural form required?
The Shaykh:
First, we ask Allah to love you as you have loved us in Him. As for your saying that you are defending Islam, you are not at that level; I am less than that and I am falling short, and I seek Allah's forgiveness. But we hope that Allah will support Islam by the support of One who is with Him, and that He will cause the enemies of Islam to fail by His might and power, (Glorified and Exalted is He). And as for the question, yes.
The questioner:
The question says: the travel supplication.
The Shaykh:
The supplication for travel. It is reported that when one mounts the vehicle one travels in, whether a beast, a car, an airplane, or a ship, one says, "Glory be to Him who," and recites the verse
"Exalted is He who has subjected this to us, and we could not have [otherwise] subdued it. (14) And indeed we, to our Lord, will [surely] return."
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَٰذَا وَمَا كُنَّا لَهُ مُقْرِنِينَ وَإِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا لَمُنقَلِبُونَO Allah, lighten this journey of ours
اللهم هون علينا سفرنا هذاO Allah, Thou art the Companion in the journey, and the One Who looks after the family; O Allah,
اللهم انت الصاحب في السفر والخليفه في الاهل اللهمThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-031-الشتاء وما فيه من النعم|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (24:49)
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