The Form of Supplication: O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, I seek Your aid, or by Your mercy
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Question:
The questioner asks: Which is more correct to say in supplication: "O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, I seek Your aid," or "O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, by Your mercy I seek Your aid"?
Answer:
It is all permissible; because seeking aid through His mercy is seeking aid from Him. Allah, Exalted and Majestic, said:[Al-A'raf 7:180] meaning, seek nearness to Him, Blessed and Exalted is He, through it. And among these is mercy, for it is one of His attributes, Blessed and Exalted is He. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner asks: Which is more correct to say in supplication: "O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, I seek Your aid," or "O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, by Your mercy I seek Your aid"?
Answer:
It is all permissible; because seeking aid through His mercy is seeking aid from Him. Allah, Exalted and Majestic, said:
And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.
وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ فَادْعُوهُ بِهَاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
كتاب التوحيد [11] — alfawzan.live (55:22)
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