" Ibn Jarir, Ahkam al-Qur'an by Jassas• I asked: What made you laugh | English - Sahih International : That you may settle yourselves upon their backs and then remember the favor of your Lord when you have settled upon them and say "Exalted is He who has subjected this to us and we could not have [otherwise] subdued it• He replied: When a servant says: Rabb-ighfir-li, Allah Almighty is very pleased with this |
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O God, take care of us during, the journey and our household in ow absence | For when a man endowed with a living heart and a sensitive conscience will sit on these conveyances, he will be filled with the feelings of the blessings and with the gratitude for it, and will cry out: "Glorified is the Being Who subjected these things to me: Glorified is He from that another should be His associate in His Being and attributes and powers: Glorified is He and free from the weakness that He should become helpless of performing the functions of His Godhead by Himself and should stand in need of other associate gods: Glorified is He that I should make another an associate with Him in rendering thanks for these blessings |
Hadrat 'Abdullah bin 'Umar says that whenever the Holy Prophet sat on a conveyance for a journey, he would pronounce Allah-u Akbar thrice, then would recite this verse, and then pray: "O God, I implore You to grant me in this journey the grace of goodness and piety and such acts as may please You.
21He replied: Say, thank God, Who guided us to Islam: Thanks to Him, Whodid us a favour by sending Muhammad upon whom be Allah's peace : Thanks to Him, Who admitted us into the best community that has been raised for the people; then recite this verse | I said: What should I say then? ; Hadrat Hasan may Allah be pleased with him said: Have you been commanded to say so? " The best practical commentary of the intention and meaning of this verse are the words that the Holy Prophet upon whom be Allah's peace used to pronounce at the time he sat on the conveyance |
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He says: My servant knows that there is none beside Me who can forgive sins | To benefit by these blessings and to forget the Benefactor is a sign of the heart's becoming dead and the conscience's being insensitive |
, then pronounced al-,hamd-u-lillah thrice, and Allah-u Akbar thrice; then said: Subhana-ka, la-ilaha ills anta, qad zalamtu nafsi fagh fir-li.
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