Is it permissible to say, "O Allah, hear me and save me"?
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Question : May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. And these are the questions. The questioner says: Is it permissible for us to make du'a' (supplication) and say, "O Allah, hear me and save me"? And what is the difference between that and "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah"?
Answer : It is not permissible for a person to say, "O Majesty of Allah, save me." Because the hearing of Allah is not separate from Allah; rather, His hearing is one of His attributes. If you were to call upon the attribute in isolation, that would be a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah). As for "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah" from the evil of what He created, that is because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He,[Ya-Sin 36:82]. So if Allah wills to prevent something from you, He says "Be," and you seek help through the perfect words of Allah, which is His command that what you dislike should not be. And this is the truth.
So it is as if you are saying, “O my Lord, I take refuge in You from such and such, for if You will to protect me, what can Allah the Mighty and Majestic say? He says: ‘Everything by His perfect words.’ No one can keep in mind, when he says this,[Al-Falaq 113:1-2] that the words are an attribute independent of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, no, never; rather, he keeps in mind that things come into existence or do not come into existence by the words of Allah the Mighty and Majestic.
Answer : It is not permissible for a person to say, "O Majesty of Allah, save me." Because the hearing of Allah is not separate from Allah; rather, His hearing is one of His attributes. If you were to call upon the attribute in isolation, that would be a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah). As for "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah" from the evil of what He created, that is because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He,
when He intends a thing that He says to it, "Be," and it is.
إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَن يَقُولَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُSo it is as if you are saying, “O my Lord, I take refuge in You from such and such, for if You will to protect me, what can Allah the Mighty and Majestic say? He says: ‘Everything by His perfect words.’ No one can keep in mind, when he says this,
(1) Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak (2) From the evil of that which He created
أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، هل يجوز قول يا سمع الله انقذني — youtube.com (0:10)
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