The ruling on the supplication: “O Allah, if You have written me among the happy ones”
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The questioner:
He asks: Is this supplication valid: “O Allah, if You have written me among the prophets, then erase me and seek me out among the happy ones”?
The Shaykh:
I do not know; I know nothing about this. However, one should supplicate to Allah to make him among the happy ones, among the people of Paradise, and among the people of good, without saying “if You have written,” unless there is a sound hadith regarding it, which I do not know.
The questioner:
Say: I want to supplicate: “O Allah, I do not ask You to reverse the decree, but I ask You for the wisdom in it.”
The Shaykh:
This supplication is not sound. The scholars have pointed this out more than once that it is not permissible to supplicate in this manner. Yes. “I ask You for gentleness in the decree,” this is good, but “I do not ask You to reverse the decree,” this has no need for it. Yes.
He asks: Is this supplication valid: “O Allah, if You have written me among the prophets, then erase me and seek me out among the happy ones”?
The Shaykh:
I do not know; I know nothing about this. However, one should supplicate to Allah to make him among the happy ones, among the people of Paradise, and among the people of good, without saying “if You have written,” unless there is a sound hadith regarding it, which I do not know.
The questioner:
Say: I want to supplicate: “O Allah, I do not ask You to reverse the decree, but I ask You for the wisdom in it.”
The Shaykh:
This supplication is not sound. The scholars have pointed this out more than once that it is not permissible to supplicate in this manner. Yes. “I ask You for gentleness in the decree,” this is good, but “I do not ask You to reverse the decree,” this has no need for it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 14/5 شرح العقيدة الطحاوية/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:04:14)
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