Dua for Entering the Bathroom
Where this dua comes from
Narrated by Anas ibn Malik, who said the Prophet ﷺ would say this on entering a place used for relieving oneself. Al-khubuth and al-khaba'ith are commonly translated as male and female devils, following the reading of most classical commentators, though some scholars take the words more generally to mean impurity or evil in both a physical and unseen sense — the bathroom being treated in the fiqh literature as a place where the remembrance of Allah is deliberately paused (nothing else is recited once inside), which is part of why this dua is said just before entry rather than within it. It is one of the shortest daily-life duas and is usually among the first taught to children alongside the entering-home and leaving-home duas.
When to recite
Before entering, said outside the door.