Setting off, stopping on the way, and coming home
There is a wording the Prophet ﷺ said when he set off on a journey, one for stopping somewhere along the way, one for leaving the house and one for coming back into it. They are short, and none of them needs to be memorised perfectly before you can say them — read the transliteration until the Arabic settles.
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Subḥānalladhī sakhkhara lanā hādhā wa mā kunnā lahu muqrinīn, wa innā ilā Rabbinā la-munqalibūn
Glory to the One who put this under our control — we could never have managed it ourselves — and truly it is to our Lord that we are returning. The Prophet ﷺ said these words of the Qur'an when he settled onto his mount.
When you sit into the car, or the seat on a plane or train. · Qur'an 43:13–14; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1342
بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ، تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللّٰهِ، وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللّٰهِ
Bismillāh, tawakkaltu ʿala-llāh, wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh
In the name of Allah. I put my trust in Allah. There is no power to change anything and no strength except with Allah.
As you leave home. · Sunan Abī Dāwūd 5095; Sunan at-Tirmidhī 3426
أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللّٰهِ التَّامَّاتِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ
Aʿūdhu bi-kalimāti-llāhit-tāmmāti min sharri mā khalaq
I take shelter in the perfect words of Allah from the harm of what He has made.
When you stop at a place on a journey, or feel uneasy somewhere. · Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2708
بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ وَلَجْنَا، وَبِسْمِ اللّٰهِ خَرَجْنَا، وَعَلَى اللّٰهِ رَبِّنَا تَوَكَّلْنَا
Bismillāhi walajnā, wa bismillāhi kharajnā, wa ʿala-llāhi Rabbinā tawakkalnā
In the name of Allah we enter, in the name of Allah we leave, and upon Allah our Lord we depend.
As you enter your home; then greet the people inside with salām. · Sunan Abī Dāwūd 5096
The travelling du'ā is said once you are seated and moving — on the plane, in the car, on the train. The others fit the moment they name: at the door on the way out, when you stop at a service station or a hotel, and at the door again when you get home.
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