Chapter 158: About the Invocation One makes on Riding

Translation: As we have explained, Islam is a Divine Message, and hence it is a comprehensive one. It teaches a Muslim everything, even about answering the call of nature.

Translation: Narrated Abdoul-Rahman ibn Yazeed: ' It was said to Salman: " Your Prophet has taught you everything even the due manner of relieving oneself. ” Salman said: " This is true.

Translation: He forbade us to face qiblah while defecating or urinating, to clean ourselves with our left hand and to clean the two passages with less than three stones, and he also forbade us to cleanse them with dung or bones. "

Traveling throughout the earth is a commandment that is mentioned repeatedly in the Noble Koran and Sunna.Imam Al-Shafe'e summarizes the benefits of traveling in some poetic verses as follows: Traveling compensates one for that which he leaves in his homeland. it revives one in the same way as running water does not change in taste. Traveling also gives one more certitude as to one's convictions.

The Noble Koran repeats this commandment in many places such as:

Translation: " And when you (Muslims) travel in the land, there is no sin on you if you shorten the prayer if you fear that the disbelievers may put you in trial (attack you etc.), verily, the disbelievers are ever unto you open enemies. * " (4: 101) And

Translation: " Say (O Muhammad!): " Travel in the land and see what was the end of those who rejected truth. * " (6:11) And

Translation: " And We sent not before you (as Messengers) any but men whom We inspired from among the people of townships. Have they not traveled in the land and seen what was the end of those who were before them? And verily, the home of the Hereafter is the best for those who fear Allah and obey Him (by abstaining from sins and evil deeds, and by performing righteous good deeds). Do you not then understand? * " (12: 109)

Translation: A Muslim should search for lawful earnings wherever they may be, and his provision during his journeys should be lawful and good. Allah i says:

Translation: " For Al Hajj are the months well-known. If any one undertakes that duty therein, let there be no obscenity, wickedness, or wrangling in (the months of) Al Hajj and whatever good you do, (be sure) Allah knows it. And take a provision (for the journey), but the best provision is piety (right conduct). So fear Me, O men of understanding. * (2: 197)

Translation: A traveler feels anxious about himelf, his children, and his property, and he could be put at ease if he entrusted these affairs to the Reliable One (Allah). The Messenger of Allah teaches us the invocation that is able to put us at ease in regard to such concerns, provided that the Muslim has fulfilled his obligations to Allah. One of these invocations is:

Translation: “... O Allah! You are the Companion in travel and the Protector of the family. O Allah! Let Your Guardianship accompany us on departure and arrival. O Allah! Fold the earth for us and ease our travel. O Allah! We seek refuge with You from the hardships of travel and the evil of accidents. " (At-Termizi)

Translation: He should follow the other directions of the Prophet ﷺ such as choosing an emir (leader) for the group, averting from accompanying a bell or a dog, taking sufficient food, having breaks for the mounts, invoking Allah whenever he dismounts for a rest, reciting Al-takbeer whenever he climbs a height, reciting the returning invocation upon returning, not returning to one's family by night, except after notifying. them, etc.

Translation: This is sufficient and now let us read what Imam Al- Nawawi compiled.

Allah said

Translation: " And it is He Who has created all the pairs and has appointed for you ships and cattle on which you ride, * In order that you may mount firmly on their backs, and then may remember the Favor of your Lord when you mount thereon, and say: " Glory be to Him who has subjected this to us, and we could never have it (by our efforts). " And verily, to Our Lord we indeed are to return! *** (43: 12-14)

Translation: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said as:

Translation: 501. Narrated by Abu-Huraira: ' Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ rode his mount and set out for a journey he used to stretch out his finger and invoke: " O Allah! You are the Companion in travel and the Protector of the family. O Allah! Let Your Guardianship accompany us on departure and arrival. O Allah! Fold the earth for us and ease our travel. 0 Allah! We seek refuge with You from the hardships of travel and the evil of accidents. " (At-Termizi)

Translation: 502. Narrated Abdollah ibn Omar ' Whenever Allah's Messenger returned from a Battle, Hajj or Omra, he used. to say Al-takbeer (Allah Akbar) thrice at every high land and then he would say: " La illaha illallaho, Wahdaho La Shareeka Laho, Laholmolko Wa Laholhamdo, Wa Howa Ala Kolli Shay'in Qadeer. Ayiboon, Ta'iboon, Abidoon, Sa jidoon, Lirabbina Hamidoon. Sadaq Allah, Wa'daho Wa Nasara Abdaho, Wa Hazamalahza ba Wahdah (None has the right to be worshipped but Allah; He is One and has no partner. All Sovereignty is for Him, and all the praises are for Him, and He is the Omnipotent. We are returning with repentance, worshipping, prostrating, and praising our Lord. He has kept His Promise and made His slave victorious, and He Alone defeated all the confederates of (disbelievers without human intervention). " (Bukhari)