Thou me with what is lawful, to keep me away from what is prohibited, and with Thy grace make me free from want of what is besides Thee!

The concluding dhikr in the sitting position is taslīm, or the utterance of the following words:

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As-salāmu ‘alai-kum wa raḥmatu-llāh.
Peace be on you and the mercy of Allāh.

These words are uttered twice, first turning the face to the right and then turning to the left.

The qunūt

Qunūt comes from qanata which means he was humble in obedience to God, and qunūt is really a prayer of humility, but it also means standing long in prayer. There are two kinds of qunūt spoken of in Ḥadīth. One of these was the prayer which was specially addressed to the Divine Being on the occasion of some great tribulation, as happened when seventy Muslim missionaries were treacherously murdered by the tribes of Ra‘l, Dhakwān, etc. (Bu. 14:7; 56:19). It was a prayer calling for Divine punishment on the tyrants who butchered absolutely innocent people, and this prayer was offered after rising from rukū‘ in the morning and evening congregational prayers. It was on this occasion that the Holy Prophet received a revelation (3:128), not to pray for the punishment of a people, but still his practice of offering qunūt at the time of great disaster or imminent danger was acted upon by his Companions, as by Abū Bakr before the battle with Musailimah (ZM. I, p. 75). The qunūt in this case was a prayer to God to avert a calamity.

The more well-known qunūt is, however, that offered in the witr prayer in the third rak‘ah. It is based on a ḥadīth related in the Sunan and the Musnad of Aḥmad, and the words of this prayer, as reported by Ḥasan, son of ‘Alī, are as follows: