And prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and all his Companions: He said -may Allah have mercy on him-: "When he travels and night approaches, he says"

The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions:
He said -may Allah have mercy on him-: "

when God’s messenger was travelling and night came on he said, "O earth, my Lord and your Lord is God; I seek refuge in God from your evil, the evil of what you contain, the evil of what has been created in you, and the evil of what creeps upon you; I seek refuge in God from lions, from large black snakes, from other snakes, from scorpions, from the evil of jinn [Or it may be human inhabitants.] which inhabit a settlement and from a parent and his offspring."

إذا سافر فأقبل الليل قال : يا أرض ربي وربك الله، أعوذ بالله من شرك، وشر ما فيك، وشر ما خلق فيك، وشر ما يدب عليك، وأعوذ بالله من شر أسد وأسود، ومن الحية والعقرب، ومن ساكن البلد، ومن والد وما ولد

Mishkat al-Masabih 2439

Narrated by Abu Dawud " .

The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful:
These two hadiths explain what a person says when he is traveling and stops at a place. Indeed, in the hadith of Khawlah bint Hakim (may Allah be pleased with her), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: .
His saying: : includes one who stops at a place while traveling, if he is a traveler and then stops to rest for lunch or dinner or sleep or anything else. When he stops, he says: I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created. The meaning of "I seek refuge" is: I take hold of the perfect words of Allah. The perfect words of Allah include His cosmic words and His legislative words. As for His cosmic words, they are those mentioned by Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in His saying: : Allah the Exalted protects you with His cosmic words, repelling from you what harms you when you say this phrase: .
Likewise, the legislative words of Allah, which are the revelation, contain protection from all evil and harm, protection from evil before it descends, and [protection] after it descends:
As for before it descends, it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): .
As for after the evil descends, it is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) that al-Fatihah, when recited over a sick person or one who has been bitten, benefits him, to the extent that the Companion (may Allah be pleased with him), when he recited over the master of the group who was bitten, when he recited Surat al-Fatihah over him, he stood up as if he had been released from a rope, meaning: he was cured, because the Qur'an is a healing: : So strive, O my Muslim brother, when you stop at a place on land or sea, or a place you have purchased such as a house or the like, say: I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created, for nothing will harm you until you depart from that place of yours. And Allah grants success.