Al-Kafi 3434

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Bukeyr, from Suleyman Al Ja’fary who said, ‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan^asws saying: ‘When it is evening, so look towards the sun during the setting and disappearing, so say, ‘In the Name of Allah^azwj, and by Allah^azwj, and the Praise is for Allah^azwj Who neither Took a female companion, nor a son, and there does not happen to be a match for Him^azwj in the Kingdom, and there does not happen to be a guardian for him from the disgrace, and His^azwj Greatness is the Greatest. And the Praise is for Allah^azwj Who Describes while He^azwj cannot be described, and He^azwj Knows while He^azwj cannot be known. He^azwj Knows the betrayal of the eyes and what the chests conceal. And I seek Refuge by His^azwj Benevolent Face, and by the Magnificent Name of Allah^azwj, from the evil of what is spread and inseminated, and from the evil of what is beneath the ground, and from the evil of what is hidden and apparent, and from the evil of what can be described and what cannot be described. And the Praise is for Allah^azwj, Lord^azwj of the worlds. He^asws mentioned: ‘It is a security from every predatory wild animals, and from the Pelted Satan^la and his^la offspring, and everything what bites or stings, and its reciter, when he speaks with it, would neither fear a thief nor a devil’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘I am a hunter of the wild animals and I tend to spend the night among the ruins and I am alone’. So he^asws said to me: ‘Say when you enter (the hunting), ‘In the Name of Allah^azwj I enter’, and enter your right leg; and when you exit, so exit your left leg (first) and Name Allah^azwj (<span class="iTxt">Bismillah</span>), so you will not be seeing an abhorrence’.

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