Is it better to supplicate for the guidance of disbelievers or for their destruction?
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Question:
(peace and blessings be upon him). The questioner asks: In the saying of Allah, Glorious and Exalted, regarding the killing of the corrupt, is the default to supplicate for the guidance of disbelievers, or to supplicate for their destruction, and which is better?
Answer:
Supplicating for the guidance of those is for those whose guidance is hoped for. As for the person whose guidance is not hoped for, one supplicates for his destruction, just as Noah (peace be upon him) did:[Nuh 71:26]. When Allah said to him: [Hud 11:36], at that point he supplicated against them. So if a disbeliever’s guidance is hoped for, one supplicates for his guidance; but if he is a rebel, a stubborn evildoer, one supplicates for his destruction. Yes.
(peace and blessings be upon him). The questioner asks: In the saying of Allah, Glorious and Exalted, regarding the killing of the corrupt, is the default to supplicate for the guidance of disbelievers, or to supplicate for their destruction, and which is better?
Answer:
Supplicating for the guidance of those is for those whose guidance is hoped for. As for the person whose guidance is not hoped for, one supplicates for his destruction, just as Noah (peace be upon him) did:
My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.
رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ دَيَّارًاNo one will believe from your people except those who have already believed
أَنَّهُ لَن يُؤْمِنَ مِن قَوْمِكَ إِلَّا مَن قَدْ آمَنَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [246- 4717] هل الأفضل الدعاء للكفار بالهداية أو الهلاك؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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