and His is the praise, and He has power over all things. O Allah, none can withhold what You give, and none can give what You withhold. Nor can wealth avail its possessor against You.”

It is also established in the authentic collection that he said:

“Whoever glorifies Allah thirty-three times after the prayer, praises Him thirty-three times, and proclaims His greatness thirty-three times—making ninety-nine—and completes the hundred by saying, ‘There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone, with no partner. His is the dominion and His is the praise, and He has power over all things,’ will have his sins erased.”

—or words to that effect. This and similar remembrances are what the Sunnah prescribes after the prayer. And Allah knows best.

He was asked:

“Concerning a man who objects to people engaged in remembrance, telling them, ‘This remembrance is an innovation, and your raising your voices in remembrance is an innovation.’ They begin and end with the Quran, then supplicate for living and deceased Muslims. They combine glorifying Allah, praising Him, declaring that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, proclaiming His greatness, declaring that there is no power or might except through Allah, and invoking blessings upon the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Yet the objector repeatedly holds sessions of samāʿ (audition) accompanied by clapping, and suspends remembrance while these sessions take place.”

He answered:

Gathering to remember Allah, listen to His Book, and supplicate is a righteous deed, and is among the finest means of drawing near to Him and acts of worship at various times. For in the authentic collection it is narrated from