Chapter 181
Remembrance 2 from Chapter 181
What to say upon seeing a village which one does, or does not, wish to enter
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma innī as’aluka min khayri hādhihi wa khayri mā jama‘ta fīhā, wa a‘ūdhu bika min sharrihā wa sharri mā jama‘ta fīhā. Allāhumma-rzuqnā ḥayāhā, wa a‘idhnā min wabāhā, wa ḥabbibnā ilā ahlihā, wa ḥabbib ṣāliḥī ahlihā ilaynā.
Context
We relate from the book of Ibn as-Sunnī that ‘Ā’ishah 
said: “When the Messenger of Allah 
looked upon a region he was about to enter he would say, ‘O Allah, I ask for the good in this and the good You have gathered in it, and I seek refuge from its evil and the evil You have gathered in it. Allah, give us our provision from it, protect us from its diseases, and endear us to its inhabitants, and endear us to the righteous amongst them.’”