Kamil Ahmad – 5 Ways to Protect Your Home from Shaytan

And so, there are certain practical steps that

we can take that Allah and His Messenger

have taught us, by which we can protect

our homes from shaitan, not allowing him to

even enter our homes.

The first tip is that whenever we enter

our homes, we should enter in the name

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And so the Prophet ﷺ says in a

hadith in Sahih Muslim, that if a person

mentions the name of Allah when entering his

home, shaitan, he turns to his buddies, his

followers, and he says to them, you have

no place to spend the night tonight.

Number two, when we enter our homes, we

enter by saying salam.

As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us,

فَإِذَا دَخَلْتُمْ بُيُوتًا فَسَلِّمُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِكُمْ تَحِيَّةً مِّنْ

عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مُبَارَكَةً طَيِّبًا When you enter homes,

when you enter any home, then say salam

upon those who are in the homes.

This is a tahiyyah, this is a greeting

from Allah, which is blessed and which is

good.

Number three, making our homes a place of

ibadah and a place in which we pray

in.

Not only coming to the masjid to pray

our salawat, while neglecting praying in our homes.

And so the Prophet ﷺ says in a

hadith found in Bukhari and Muslim, the best

salah of a person, أَفْظَلُ صَلَاتِ الْمَرْءِ صَلَاتُهُ

فِي بَيْتِهِ بَعْدَ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ that the best salah

of a person is his salah at home.

Besides the obligatory salah, the five daily salawat,

yes, to pray in the masjid is better

than to pray at home.

But besides that, the rest of our salawat,

praying our sunan, our nawafil, we should make

it a point to pray them at home.

Number four, the remembrance of Allah, the dhikr

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, especially reciting

the Qur'an and especially reciting a particular

surah of the Qur'an, and that is

surah al-Baqarah.

The Prophet ﷺ says, giving us a parable,

comparing two kinds of homes.

The Prophet ﷺ says, مَثَالُ الْبَيْتَ الَّذِي يُذْكَرُ

اللَّهُ فِيهِ وَالْبَيْتَ الَّذِي لَا يُذْكَرُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ

كَمَثَالِ الْحَيِّ وَالْمَيِّتِ The example of the home

in which Allah is remembered in versus the

home in which Allah is not remembered in

is the example of the living and the

dead.

Finally, the last point is removing things that

prevent the angels from coming into our homes.

Thus, allowing the enemies of the angels, the

devils and the shayateen from taking their place.

And so, the Prophet ﷺ says in this

hadith in Sahih Muslim, that the angels, they

do not enter any house in which there

is a dog and in which there are

images, pictures, referring to pictures of living creatures.

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

bring peace to our homes and to distance

shayateen and his followers from our homes.