Gifts of Knowledge

Shaikh ʿAbdur-Razzāq al-Badr, Allaah protect him, said:

“But take note of a point here: every time you leave your house a shaiṭān is there waiting for you to come out.

Every time.

Every time you leave your house there is a shaiṭān waiting by your house—he has no other job except to wait for you to come out, and his mission and aim is well-known.

And he has helpers.

So when you say: 

بِسْمِ الله، توكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله، وَلا حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إلاَّ بِالله
Bismillāh. Tawakkaltu ʿalallāh. Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwta illa billāh.
“In the name of Allaah. I trust in Allaah. There is no might and no power but with Allaah.”

You are protected from his evil and that of his helpers and this shaiṭān then turns to his aids and brothers and tells them to lose hope in you, saying, ‘What are you going to do with a man who has been guided, defended and protected?’

That is why it is not fitting for a Muslim to deprive himself of this profound good and excellence, so he should make sure to say this great dhikr:

 بِسْمِ الله، توكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله، وَلا حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إلاَّ بِالله
Bismillāh. Tawakkaltu ʿalallāh. Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwta illa billāh.
“In the name of Allaah. I trust in Allaah. There is no might and no power but with Allaah.”

Sharḥ al-Wābil aṣ-Ṣayyib, lesson no. 22.

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