Recitations for Fending Off Evil Self Inspirations

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Imam al-Sadiq (a) is also reported to have said: To get rid of Satan's evil inspirations, you may rub your chest with your hand and say the following:

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ وَ بِاللّٰهِ مُحَمَّدٌ رَّسُوْلُ اللّٰهِ وَلَاحَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ اِلَّا بِاللّٰهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيْمِ اَللّٰهُمَّ امْسَحْ عَنِّيْ مَا اَحْذَرُ۔

BISMIL LAAHI WA BILLAAHI MUHAMMADUR RASOOLUL LAAH, WA LAA HAWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLAA BILLAAHIL A'LIYYIL A'ZEEM, ALLAAHUMMAM SAH A'NNEE MAAA AHZAR.

In the name of Allah, and by Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and there is no power and no strength except with Allah, the Most High, the All-magnificent. O Allah, wipe away from me what I fear.

You may then rub your abdomen and repeat the same supplication three times. If you do so, evil inspirations will fade away, Allah willing.

For fending off obsessions, it is useful to wash the head with the leaves of lote-trees (jujube trees), to cleanse the teeth with the stick known as siwak, to eat pomegranates, to drink from the rainwater in April, and to observe fasting on three days in every month: the first and the last Thursdays, and Wednesday in the middle of the month.

The following guard-seeking supplication may also be said for fending off evil inspirations:

اَعُوْذُ بِاللّٰهِ الْقَوِيِّ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الْغَوِيِّ وَ اَعُوْذُ بِمُحَمَّدٍ الرَّضِيِّ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا قُدِّرَ وَ قُضِيَ وَ اَعُوْذُ بِاِلٰهِ النَّاسِ مِنْ شَرِّ الْجِنَّةِ وَ النَّاسِ اَجْمَعِيْنَ۔

A-O'OZU BILLAAHIL QAWIYYI MINASH SHAYTAANIL GHAWIYY, WA A-O'OZU BI-MUHAMMADINIR RADIYYI MIN SHARRI MAA QUDDIRA WA QUDIY, WA A-O'OZU BI-ILAAHIN NAASI MIN SHARRIL JINNATI WAN NAASI AJMA-E'EN.

I seek refuge in Allah, the Strong, from Satan, the misguiding; and I seek refuge in Muhammad, the well-pleased, from the evil of what is decreed and decided; and I seek refuge in the God of mankind from the evil of the jinn and mankind altogether.