Also recommended for: Before sleeping | Ruquiya | Sick/Evil eye | Guarding empty home

TRANSLITERATION

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem 112:1 Qul hu’wallaa-hu ahad. 112:2 Allah hus-samad. 112:3 Lam yalid wa-lam yoou’lad. 112:4 Wa lam’ya kul-lahu kufu’wan ahad.

TRANSLATION

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful 112:1 Say, He is Allah, [who is] One. 112:2 Allah, the Eternal Refuge. 112:3 He neither begets nor is born. 112:4 Nor is there to Him any equivalent.

BENEFIT AND VIRTUE

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was known to recite these chapters of the Quran every night before he went to sleep. He would cup his hands, recite the chapters into them, and then pass his hands all over his body. He صلى الله عليه وسلم was also known to recite these verses anytime he was ill. Such that when he was so ill that he couldn’t recite them by himself, his wife, Aisha r.a reported that she used to recite them and rub them all over his body.