Muḥammad ﷺ · starting a new job

A sound entrance and a sound exit

Source: Sūrat Al-Israa
17:80
Extent: Excerpt within the āyah, shown in full ink against dimmed framing.
Text: Uthmani, verified by checksum

وَقُل رَّبِّ أَدْخِلْنِى مُدْخَلَ صِدْقٍۢ وَأَخْرِجْنِى مُخْرَجَ صِدْقٍۢ وَٱجْعَل لِّى مِن لَّدُنكَ سُلْطَٰنًۭا نَّصِيرًۭا

Rabbi ʾadkhilnī mudkhala ṣidqin wa-ʾakhrijnī mukhraja ṣidqin wajʿal lī min ladunka sulṭānan naṣīran

English · Marmaduke Pickthall And say: My Lord! Cause me to come in with a firm incoming and to go out with a firm outgoing. And give me from Thy presence a sustaining Power.

Türkçe · Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır (Ey Muhammed!) De ki: "Rabbim! Beni, takdir ettiğin yere gönül rahatlığı ve huzur içinde koy ve çıkacağım yerden de dürüstlükle ve selametle çıkmamı sağla. Bana katından yardım edici bir kuvvet ver."

When and why it was said

From Sūrat Al-Israa, 17:80. The occasion of this supplication has not yet been written with a tafsīr citation.

Qurʾān 17:80

Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn

And say ‘My Lord make me enter Medina with a veritable entrance an entrance that is satisfying one in which I do not see what I dislike and bring me out of Mecca with a veritable departure a departure such that my heart will not care to turn back to look at it yearningly. And grant me from Yourself a favourable authority’ grant me strength with which You render me victorious over Your enemies.

Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com

Said when: starting a new job leaving a place for the last time travelling
Themes: When you must decide When you need protecting When the task is beyond you

A sound entrance and a sound exit

When and why it was said

Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn

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