Pocket Companion · Part 9 of 9

My Little Companion

رَفِيقِي

Scholarly review: pending

This text comes from the Sabīl print library. Its scholarly review is still in progress; every item will carry its reviewers’ names and the date once two scholars have signed it.

Show

Pocket Companion · 09 of 09

My Little Companion

رَفِيقِي

Rafīqī

Big words, short prayers — for small hands.

2 · Bismillāh

3 · Eating

4 · Sleeping & waking

5 · Washing for prayer

6 · How to pray

7 · Counting on my fingers

8 · My week

Name ____________________

02Bismillāh

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ

Bismillāh

In the name of Allah. Say it before you start anything.

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ

Al-ḥamdu lillāh

All praise is for Allah. Say it when something good happens.

إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ

In shā’ Allāh

If Allah wills. Say it about tomorrow.

اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ

Allāhu akbar

Allah is the greatest.

03Eating

Before

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ

Bismillāh

In the name of Allah — then eat with your right hand.

After

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَنِي هَٰذَا وَرَزَقَنِيهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَوْلٍ مِنِّي وَلَا قُوَّةٍ

Al-ḥamdu lillāhil-ladhī aṭ‘amanī hādhā wa razaqanīhi min ghayri ḥawlin minnī wa lā quwwah

Shown whole, from Adab & Akhlāq. In print this text is set shorter. The print’s own lines beneath it were written for the shorter text.

Praise be to Allah, who fed me.

If you forget, say Bismillāhi awwalahū wa ākhirah and keep eating.

04Sleeping & waking

Going to sleep

بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ أَمُوتُ وَأَحْيَا

Bismika Allāhumma amūtu wa aḥyā

In Your name, O Allah, I die and I live.

Waking up

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَحْيَانَا بَعْدَ مَا أَمَاتَنَا وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُورُ

Al-ḥamdu lillāhil-ladhī aḥyānā ba‘da mā amātanā wa ilayhin-nushūr

Praise be to Allah, who gave us life after death, and to Him is the resurrection.

Shown whole, from Pocket Companion. In print this text is set shorter.

Sleep on your right side. Read Āyat al-Kursī with a grown-up.

Qur’ān 2:255

05Washing for prayer

1 Say Bismillāh

2 Hands — 3 times

3 Mouth — 3 times

4 Nose — 3 times

5 Face — 3 times

6 Arms to elbows — 3

7 Wipe your head — 1

8 Ears — 1

9 Feet to ankles — 3

Right side first, always. Don’t waste water.

06How to pray

1 Stand and face the qiblah

2 Allāhu akbar — hands up

3 Read al-Fātiḥah

Qur’ān · Sūrah 1

4 Bow: Subḥāna Rabbiyal-‘Aẓīm ×3

5 Stand up straight

6 Prostrate: Subḥāna Rabbiyal-A‘lā ×3

7 Sit, then prostrate again

8 At the end: at-Taḥiyyāt

9 As-salāmu ‘alaykum — right, then left

Ask for anything you want while your forehead is on the ground.

07Counting on my fingers

After every prayer, count on the fingers of your right hand:

سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ

Subḥānallāh

Subḥānallāh — 33 times

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ

Al-ḥamdu lillāh

Al-ḥamdu lillāh — 33 times

اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ

Allāhu akbar

Allāhu akbar — 33 times

Your fingers will speak for you one day — so let them count good things.

08My week

Colour a box for every prayer you pray.

F · D · A · M · I

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

F Fajr · D Dhuhr · A ‘Aṣr · M Maghrib · I ‘Ishā’

Lines with a dotted edge give the sound of the Arabic, worked out by rule from its vowel marks. They are not from the print titles and have not been reviewed: where one differs from the Arabic, the Arabic is right.