The Ruling on Seeking Forgiveness for a Specific Person with the Intention of Healing or the Return of a Missing Person
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Recently, a claim has spread calling for seeking forgiveness for a specific person with the intention of healing from an illness, or with the intention of a missing person returning to his family safely. What is the ruling on such matters?
Answer:
Seeking forgiveness. How can one do that? One supplicates for the sick person that Allah will heal him, and one supplicates for the absent person that Allah will return him. As for seeking forgiveness, that is another form of worship, another remembrance. Yes, seeking forgiveness for sins. Yes.
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Recently, a claim has spread calling for seeking forgiveness for a specific person with the intention of healing from an illness, or with the intention of a missing person returning to his family safely. What is the ruling on such matters?
Answer:
Seeking forgiveness. How can one do that? One supplicates for the sick person that Allah will heal him, and one supplicates for the absent person that Allah will return him. As for seeking forgiveness, that is another form of worship, another remembrance. Yes, seeking forgiveness for sins. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1430 -3022] انتشر في الآونة الأخيرة دعوة تدعو إلى الاستغفار لشخصٍ معين... — youtube.com
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