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BIDDING FAREWELL (WIDA) TO THE HOLY PROPHET (S)

If you intend to leave the holy city of alMadinah, you may bathe yourself, direct to the tomb of the Holy Prophet (s), and do the acts you did before. You may then bid farewell to the Holy Prophet (s), by saying these words:

اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُوْلَ اللّٰهِ

اَسْتَوْدِعُكَ اللّٰهَ وَ اَسْتَرْعِيْكَ

وَ اَقْرَاُ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ

اٰمَنْتُ بِاللّٰهِ وَ بِمَا جِئْتَ بِهِ وَ دَلَلْتَ عَلَيْهِ

اَللّٰهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْهُ اٰخِرَ الْعَهْدِ مِنِّي

لِزِيَارَةِ قَبْرِ نَبِيِّكَ

فَاِنْ تَوَفَّيْتَنِيْ قَبْلَ ذٰلِكَ

فَاِنِّيْۤ اَشْهَدُ فِيْ مَمَاتِيْ

عَلٰى مَا شَهِدْتُ عَلَيْهِ فِيْ حَيَاتِيْۤ

اَنْ لَا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اَنْتَ

وَ اَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُكَ وَ رَسُوْلُكَ

صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ اٰلِهِ۔

Peace be upon you, O Allah’s Messenger. I entrust you with Allah and ask Him to keep you under His custody and to send blessings upon you. I believe in Allah and in whatever you have conveyed (from Him) and instructed. O Allah, (please) do not make this to be my last visit to the tomb of Your Prophet; and if you grasp my soul before that, I bear in my death the same witness that I bear in my lifetime, which is that there is no god save You and that Muhammad is Your servant and messenger; may Allah’s blessings be upon his and his Household.

صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ

اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ

Imam alSadiq (‘a) has instructed Yunus ibn Ya’qub to say the following words when he intends to leave the tomb of the Holy Prophet (s):

لَا جَعَلَهُ اللّٰهُ اٰخِرَ تَسْلِيْمِيْ عَلَيْكَ۔

May Allah send blessings upon you. Peace be upon you. May Allah not make this visit of mine to be the last of my compliments to you.