أستودع الله دينك وأمانتك وخواتيم عملك
Astawdiʿ Allāh dīnaka wa amānataka wa khawātīma ʿamalik
Topic
“I entrust to Allah your faith, your trust and the seal of your deeds.” Said by a person departing to those who remain, or by them to him.
What it means
The sentence is a farewell prayer. The speaker places in God’s keeping three things of the one departing: his religion (dīn), his trust (amāna) and the final state of his deeds (khawātīm ʿamalik). Faruqi gives it as said by the one setting out to friends or relatives. The prayer asks that the traveller stay firm in faith, remain faithful to his trusts and that his deeds end well. Reports in the collections of Abu Dawud and al-Tirmidhi relate that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) used a farewell of this kind. It treats a parting as an occasion for prayer, since the one who leaves and those who stay are all in God’s care.
Often misunderstood as
That a farewell is merely a courtesy, when this one is a prayer that commits both parties to God’s protection.
Term and Arabic as listed in Ismail al Faruqi, Toward Islamic English (International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1995), p. 62, listed as ASTAWDI‘ ALLAH DĪNAKA WA AMĀNATAKA WAKHAWĀTĪMA ‘AMĀLIK.. The definition is restated here.