or forbidden, only for him to say, ‘Between us and you is the Book of Allah.’”

The two Sahīh collections report that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever says one hundred times in a day, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone, with no partner. To Him belongs all dominion and all praise, and He has power over all things,’ will have one hundred good deeds recorded for him and one hundred bad deeds erased. These words will protect him from Satan throughout that day until evening. No one will have brought anything better than what he has brought, except a man who says the same or more.”

The two Sahīh collections also report that