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Supplication upon hearing thunder

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When AAabdullah Ibn Az-Zubayr used to hear thunder he would stop talking and say:

سُبْـحانَ الّذي يُسَبِّـحُ الـرَّعْدُ بِحَمْـدِهِ، وَالملائِكـةُ مِنْ خيـفَته.

 Subhanal-lathee yusabbihur-raAAdu bihamdih, walmala-ikatu min kheefatih.

‘How perfect He is, (The One) Whom the thunder declares His perfection with His praise, as do the angles out of fear of Him.’