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Dhikr before sleep

Tasbih & Dhikr

Dhikr before sleep

بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ أَمُوتُ وَأَحْيَا

Bismika-llahumma amutu wa ahya

In Your name, O Allah, I die and I live.

Plain text (no diacritics)

باسمك اللهم أموت وأحيا

Source: Bukhari 6324

When is it said?

This dhikr has no fixed time: it is said by night and by day, while walking or waiting or doing anything that does not occupy the heart. The Prophet ﷺ would remember Allah at all his times.

Where it comes in the litany

Dhikr number 18 of 20 in Tasbih & Dhikr — read in the order they are said.

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