The ruling on supplicating with the phrase: “If You have written me…”
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The questioner:
He asks: Is this supplication valid? “O Allah, if You have written me among the prophets, then grant me inspiration and write me among those who have self-restraint.”
The Shaykh:
I do not know what I know about this matter, but one should supplicate to Allah to make him among the successful, among the people of Paradise, and among the people of good, without saying “if You have written,” unless there is a sound hadith regarding it; I do not know.
The questioner:
He asks: Is it valid to leave it, or do we take it? Or leave the vegetables, but I ask you about the ruling in it?
The Shaykh:
This supplication is not valid, and the scholars have refuted it more than once, stating that it is not permissible to supplicate in this manner. Yes. I ask you for kindness in the decree, that is good, but I do not ask you to change the decree, there is no need for that. Yes.
He asks: Is this supplication valid? “O Allah, if You have written me among the prophets, then grant me inspiration and write me among those who have self-restraint.”
The Shaykh:
I do not know what I know about this matter, but one should supplicate to Allah to make him among the successful, among the people of Paradise, and among the people of good, without saying “if You have written,” unless there is a sound hadith regarding it; I do not know.
The questioner:
He asks: Is it valid to leave it, or do we take it? Or leave the vegetables, but I ask you about the ruling in it?
The Shaykh:
This supplication is not valid, and the scholars have refuted it more than once, stating that it is not permissible to supplicate in this manner. Yes. I ask you for kindness in the decree, that is good, but I do not ask you to change the decree, there is no need for that. Yes.
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