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What is the explanation of the supplication: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from falling (from a high place), demolition, drowning, and burning. And I seek refuge in You from Satan confusing me at the time of death. And I seek refuge in You from dying in Your cause while fleeing, or dying from a venomous sting"?

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"O Allah, I seek refuge in You from falling": [This refers to] falling from a high place, like falling from a mountain or into a well, which means destruction. "And from being crushed" (al-hadm): with a silent dal, this means the collapse of a structure upon something; it is also said, with a fatha, it refers to the name of what has collapsed. "And from drowning": death by it. "And from burning": inflammation by fire. He sought refuge from these things because of the hardship and anxiety they involve, which could lead to a person's dereliction of their religious duties, and because they are considered sudden and a form of reckoning.

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