سورة الملك

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): If anything were to precede the divine decree, it would be the evil eye. For one who has been struck by the evil eye (let him recite Surah al-Hamd and write): بِسْمِ اللهِ أُعِیذُ فُلَانَ بْنَ فُلَانَةَ بِکَلِمَاتِ اللهِ التَّامَّاتِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ وَ ذَرَأَ وَ بَرَأَ وَ مِنْ کُلِّ عَیْنٍ نَاظِرَةٍ وَ أُذُنٍ سَامِعَةٍ وَ لِسَانٍ نَاطِقٍ إِنَّ رَبِّی عَلی صِراطٍ مُسْتَقِیم [In the name of Allah, I place so-and-so son of so-and-so under the protection of Allah's perfect words from the evil of what He has created, formed and originated, and from every watching eye, listening ear and speaking tongue. Indeed my Lord is on a straight path], and from the evil of Satan and the work of Satan and his cavalry and his infantry, وَ قالَ یا بَنِیَّ لا تَدْخُلُوا مِنْ بابٍ واحِدٍ وَ ادْخُلُوا مِنْ أَبْوابٍ مُتَفَرِّقَةٍ [And he said: O my sons, do not enter from one gate, but enter from separate gates]. [For the evil eye:] اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ مَطَرٍ حَابِسٍ وَ حَجَرٍ یَابِسٍ وَ لَیْلٍ دَامِسٍ وَ رَطْبٍ وَ یَابِسٍ رُدَّ عَیْنَ الْعَیْنِ عَلَیْهِ فِی کَیْدِهِ وَ نَحْرِهِ وَ مَالِه [O Allah, Lord of the withheld rain, the dry stone, the pitch-dark night, the moist and the dry, turn back the eye of the caster of the evil eye upon himself, upon his cunning, his throat and his wealth], فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَری مِنْ فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ کَرَّتَیْنِ یَنْقَلِبْ إِلَیْکَ الْبَصَرُ خاسِئاً وَ هُوَ حَسِیرٌ [So return your gaze; do you see any flaw? Then return your gaze again and again; your gaze will return to you humbled and weary].

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ [Then return your gaze] — look into the dominion of the heavens and the earth. یَنقَلِبْ إِلَیْکَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِأً وَ هُوَ حَسِیرٌ [Your gaze will return to you humbled and weary] — meaning it becomes exhausted, while it is powerless.

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): يَنْقَلِبْ إِلَیْکَ الْبَصَرُ خاسِئاً [Your look shall come back to you confused] means your eyes return to you while being far from reaching their goal, humiliated and lowly. [This statement] is [narrated] from Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him); as though it has been humbled like the humiliation of one who searched for something but did not find it and has become distant from it.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): And I ask You by that name of Yours, that whoever calls upon You by other than it, his knowledge of You only increases [his] distance [from You], and يَنْقَلِبْ إِلَیْکَ الْبَصَرُ خاسِئاً وَ هُوَ حَسِیرٌ [the look shall come back to you confused while it is fatigued], O Allah!

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): Sulayman ibn Ja'far narrated from Imam Kazim (peace be upon him) from his forefathers: A supplication for [protecting] an animal [from the evil eye]: and that [supplication] is preserved with the Imams (peace be upon them); he said: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful; in the name of Allah and with His help. The evil eye came out from between its flesh, its skin, its bone, its sinew and its veins, and encountered Jibra'il and Mika'il (peace be upon them). They said, "O eye, where are you going?" It said, "I am going to the camel and I will throw it out of the caravan of camels, and the beast from its halter, and the donkey from its land, and the child from its mother's lap, and I will cast the strong young man to the ground from his feet." Jibra'il and Mika'il said to it, "O eye! Go to the wilderness. There is a serpent there which has two eyes, one eye of water and one eye of fire." And thus does Allah seal upon the evil eye, the frown of a frowner, a dry stone, the soul of the envious eye-striker, and the fire of a fire-seeker. With Allah's help I have returned the evil eye to its own people, and to its two sides, its two flanks, and to its most beloved friends, and [likewise] by the will of Allah and [with the aid of] His word: أَ وَ لَمْ یَرَ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا أَنَّ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ کانَتا رَتْقاً فَفَتَقْناهُما وَ جَعَلْنا مِنَ الْماءِ کُلَّ شَیْءٍ حَیٍّ أَ فَلا یُؤْمِنُونَ [Do those who disbelieve not see that the heavens and the earth were joined together, and We separated them from each other, and made every living thing from water? Will they not then believe?] (Anbiya/30) فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَری مِنْ فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ کَرَّتَیْنِ یَنْقَلِبْ إِلَیْکَ الْبَصَرُ خاسِئاً وَ هُوَ حَسِیرٌ [Then look again: do you see any flaw? Then turn back the eye again and again; your look shall come back to you confused while it is fatigued].