Encounters during the Mi’raj: Killing a Devil with the Firebrand

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

As the Prophet (s.a.w.) was travelling, mounted on the Buraq, he saw a devil from the jinn who was trying to get near him holding a firebrand.  Everywhere the Prophet (s.a.w.) turned, he would see him.  Jibril (a.s.) said to him, “Shall I teach you words which, if you say them, his firebrand will go out, and he will fall dead?”  The Prophet (s.a.w.) said yes.  Jibril (a.s.) said, “Say: 

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

أَعُوذُ بِوَجْهِ اللهِ الْكَرِيمِ ، وَبِكَلِمَاتِ اللهِ التَّا مَّاتِ الَّتِيْ لاَ يُجَاوَزُهُنَّ بَرٌّ وَلاَ فَاجِرٌ مِنْ شَرِّ ما يَنْزِلُ مِنْ السَّمَاءِ وَمِنْ شَرِّمَا يَعرُجُ فِيْهَا وَمِنْ شَرِّمَا ذَرَأَ فِي اْلاَرْضِ ، وَمِنْ شَرِّمَا يَخرُخُ مِنْهَا وَمِنْ فِتَنِ اللٌيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَمِنْ طَوَارِقِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ إِلاَّ طَارِقًا يَطْرُقُ بِخَيْرِ يَا رَحْمَن. 

“A’uudzu bi wajhillahi al-kariim,

Wa bi kalimaatillahi at-taammaat,

al-Latii laa yujaawizuhunna barrun wa laa faajir,

Min sharri maa yanzilu min as-samaa’i

Wa min sharri maa ya’ruju fiihaa,

Wa min sharri maa dzara’a fii al-ardh,

Wa min sharri maa yakhruju minhaa,

Wa min fitani al-layli wa an-nahaar,

Wa min thawaariq al-layli wa an-nahaar,

Illa thaariqin yathruqu bi khayrin ya Rahman.” 

“I seek Refuge in the Face of Allah the Munificent,

And in Allah’s Perfect Words,

Which neither the righteous nor the disobedient overstep,

From the evil of what descends from the heaven,

And the evil of what ascends to it,

And the evil of what is created in the earth,

And the trials of the night and the day,

And the visitors of the night and the day,

Except the visitor that comes with goodness,

O Beneficent One!” 

At this, the devil fell dead on his face and his firebrand went out.