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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 25 you would wash for salat, then lie down on your right side and supplicate (as above) and let these be your last words. 81. Abu Bakr Siddique relates: When the Holy Prophet and I were in the cave and we were tracked by the Meccans I saw their feet above us outside the cave and I said: Messenger of Allah, if one of them were to look down below his feet he would see us. He said: Abu Bakr, what would you think of two with whom Allah is the third? (Bokhari and Muslim). 82. Umm Salamah (mother of the faithful) relates that when the Holy. Prophet went out of the house he supplicated: I issue forth in the name of Allah, putting my trust in Him. Allah, I seek Thy protection against going astray or being led astray, or against slipping or being caused to slip, or against trespassing or being trespassed against, or against behaving ill towards any or that anyone should behave ill towards me. (Abu Daud and Tirmidhi). 83. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who on emerging from his house supplicates: I issue forth in the name of Allah, putting my trust in Him; there is no strength to resist evil and no power to do good save through Him; is greeted with: He is guided, is sufficed and is saved, and Satan withdraws from him (Abu Daud, Tirmidhi and Nisai). Abu Daud adds: One Satan says to another: How can you subdue one who is guided, is sufficed and is saved? 84. Anas relates that there were two brothers one of whom used to attend upon the Holy Prophet and the other used to occupy himself with his profession. . On one occasion the latter complained to the Holy Prophet against the former that he paid no attention to earning his keep, who made answer: It may be that you are being provided because of him (Tirmidhi). 8. . On Perseverence. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 33. . Do thou continue to stand upright as thou hast been commanded (11. 113). 34. On them who affirm: Our Lord is Allah; and then remain steadfast, angels descend, reassuring them: Fear not. nor grieve, and rejoice in the Garden that you were promised. . We are your friends in this life and in the hereafter. Therein you will have all that you desire, and therein you will be given all that you ask for; an entertainment from the Most Forgiving, the Ever Merciful (41. 31-32). 35. Those who say: Allah is our Lord, and then remain steadfast, will be subject to no fear, nor will they grieve. These are the dwellers of the Garden; they shall abide therein; a recompense for that which they did (46. 14-15).