“My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the suggestions (whisperings) of the Shayatin (devils). And I seek refuge in You, my Lord ,lest they be present with me”
رَّبِّ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ هَمَزَاتِ ٱلشَّيَـٰطِينِ
وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ رَبِّ أَن يَحْضُرُونِ
Rabbi a’oothu bika min hamazaatish-shayaateeni. Wa-a’oothu bika rabbi an yahduroon.
Surah Al-Muminoon ,verses 97,98
This dua can be recited for the following purposes.
Protection from Satan
To seek refuge from the tricks,whispers and the presence of devils
This is the supplication of the believers who avoid the evil and falsehood.
Allah commanded to seek refuge with Him from the Shayatin, because no trick could help you against them and you cannot protect yourself by being kind to them.
Allah says in the Holy Quran:-
(And say: “My Lord! I seek refuge with You from the whisperings of the Shayatin.”)
The Messenger of Allah used to say,
(I seek refuge with Allah, the All-Hearing, All-Seeing, from the accursed Shayatin, from his whisperings, evil suggestions and insinuations.)
(“And I seek refuge with You, My Lord! lest they should come near me.”) means, in any issue of my life.
So we are commanded to mention Allah at the beginning of any undertaking, in order to ward off the Shayatin at the time of eating, intercourse, slaughtering animals for food, etc.
Abu Dawud recorded that the Messenger of Allah used to say:
(O Allah, I seek refuge with You from old age, I seek refuge with You from being crushed or drowned, and I seek refuge with you from being assaulted by the Shayatin at the time of death.)
I seek refuge in the Perfect Words of Allah -which neither the upright nor the corrupt may overcome – from the evil of what He created, of what He made, and of what He scattered, from the evil of what descends from the heavens, and of what rises up to them, from the evil of what He scattered in the earth and of what emerges from it, from the evil trials of night and day, and from the evil of every night visitor, except the night visitor who comes with good. O Merciful One.
A’oothu bikalimaatil-laahit-taammaatil-latee laa yujaawizuhunna barrun wa laa faajimn min sharri maa khalaqa, wa bara’a wa thara’a, wa min sharri maa yanzilu minas-samaa’i, wa min sharri maa ya’ruju feehaa, wa min sharri maa thara’a fil-‘ardhi, wa min sharri ma yakhruju minhaa, wa min sharri fitanil-layli wannahaari, wa min sharri kulli taariqin ‘illaa taariqan yatruqu bikhayrin yaa Rahmaan.
Ahmad 3/419, with an authentic chain of narration, and Ibn As-Sunni (no. 637).
