((اللَّهُمَّ بَاعِدْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ خَطَايَايَ كَمَا بَاعَدْتَ بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ، اللَّهُمَّ نَقِّنِي مِنْ خَطَايَايَ كَمَا يُنَقَّى الثَّوْبُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الدَّنَسِ، اللَّهُمَّ اغْسِلْني مِنْ خَطَايَايَ، بِالثَّلْجِ وَالْماءِ وَالْبَرَدِ)).
(Allahumma baAAid baynee wabayna khatayaya kama baAAadta baynal-mashriqi walmaghrib, allahumma naqqinee min khatayaya kama yunaqqath-thawbul-abyadu minad-danas, allahummagh-silnee min khatayaya biththalji walma/i walbarad.)
(O Allah, distance me from my sins just as You have distanced The East from The West, O Allah, purify me of my sins as a white robe is purified of filth, O Allah, cleanse me of my sins with snow, water, and ice.)
Hisn al-Muslim 16 · Hisn al-Muslim
Source & authenticity
Source: Hisn al-Muslim · Reference: Hisn al-Muslim 16
Translation: Hisn al-Muslim (Fortress of the Muslim), Sa'id al-Qahtani — see site-wide attribution
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Context & meaning
Three requests are made and all three concern the same thing, the speaker's sins, but each is given its own image. The first asks for distance, and measures it against a distance already in place, that between the East and the West. The second asks for purification and compares it to a white robe cleaned of filth. The third asks for cleansing and names three things to do it with: snow, water, and ice. Each request opens by addressing Him again.
When & how to recite
This belongs to the words the chapter places at the opening of the prayer.
Reflection
The three images move from distance to cloth to water, and only the last names its instruments. Nothing is said about what the sins are, and each request is made without any of them being specified.
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Common questions
What is being said in English?
Translated, it says: “O Allah, distance me from my sins just as You have distanced The East from The West, O Allah, purify me of my sins as a white robe is purified of filth, O Allah, cleanse me of my sins with snow, water, and ice.” Three requests are made and all three concern the same thing, the speaker's sins, but each is given its own image.
What is the transliteration?
If you do not read Arabic, the romanised form is: “Allahumma baAAid baynee wabayna khatayaya kama baAAadta baynal-mashriqi walmaghrib, allahumma naqqinee min khatayaya kama yunaqqath-thawbul-abyadu minad-danas, allahummagh-silnee min khatayaya biththalji walma/i walbarad.”
Which collection records it?
It is listed at Sunan an-Nasai 60.
When is this said?
This belongs to the words the chapter places at the opening of the prayer. The three images move from distance to cloth to water, and only the last names its instruments.