Jun 13, 2009
Posted by Umm Sahl in Treasures of Believers | 5 Comments
Invocation for Sneezing
When you sneeze , then say :
(i) Alhamdu lillaah
All praises and thanks are to Allah.
Your companion should say :
(ii) Yarhamukallaah
May Allah have mercy upon you .
When someone says Yarhamukallaah to you then you should say:
(iii) Yahdeekumul-laahu wa yuslihu baalakum.
May Allah guide you and set your affairs in order.
(Reference: Al-Bukhari)
To Listen to the Du’a:
[mp3:http://www.areweprepared.ca/audio/Sneezing.mp3]
Umm Sahl, your sister in Islam, a wife and mother of 3 beautiful blessed babies
a question! are you allowed to say ‘bless you’ to non muslims when they sneeze?
Assalamualikum.
When the inside of your nose gets a tickle, a message is sent to a special part of your brain called the sneeze center. The sneeze center then sends a message to all the muscles that have to work together to create the amazingly complicated process that we call the sneeze.
Some of the muscles involved are the abdominal (belly) muscles, the chest muscles, the diaphragm (the large muscle beneath your lungs that makes you breathe), the muscles that control your vocal cords, and muscles in the back of your throat. Don’t forget the eyelid muscles! Did you know that you always close your eyes when you sneeze?
It is the job of the sneeze center to make all these muscles work together, in just the right order, to send that irritation flying out of your nose. And fly it does — sneezing can send tiny particles speeding out of your nose at up to 100 miles per hour!
Allhamdulilla.. so many delicated things are used while sneezing.. May Allah always protect us.
And thats why we thank Allah after we sneeze:)
Subhan Allah
Walaiakum Asssalam Sister Sundas
I asked a Sheikh regarding your doubt, and he told me that it is fine for us to tell God bless you [u]out of courtesy [/u]to a non-muslim when he sneezes, there is nothing wrong in that.