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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible to make du'a' (supplication) in prostration with any wording, even in the colloquial dialect?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. It was reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said:
The nearest a servant come to his Lord is when he is prostrating himself, so make supplicationاقرب ما يكون العبد من ربه وهو ساجد فاكثروا
Sunan Abi Dawud 875Sahih (Al-Albani)
Does the supplication referred to here mean a specific supplication that one must not deviate from, or is it any supplication for good, in any wording, even in the colloquial dialect, and one makes du'a'?

Answer:
It is so. That is, one supplicates with what corresponds to what has been transmitted. If it is not in the wording of what was transmitted but corresponds to it, one supplicates with it, even in the colloquial dialect if one is a speaker of the colloquial dialect, or in a foreign language if one does not speak Arabic well. One supplicates in one's own language. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [192 -582] هل يجوز الدعاء في السجود بأي لفظ كان ولو باللهجة العامية؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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