The ruling on the supplication: “O Allah, do not occupy us except with Your obedience”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: Is it permissible to say, “O Allah, do not occupy us except with Your obedience”?
Answer:
I do not know of this supplication at all, but if he were to say, “O Allah, employ me in Your obedience,” that would be better. Yes, “O Allah, grant me success in Your obedience” is better than saying “do not occupy me.” I do not know this linguistic phrasing.
Honorable Shaykh, he says: Is it permissible to say, “O Allah, do not occupy us except with Your obedience”?
Answer:
I do not know of this supplication at all, but if he were to say, “O Allah, employ me in Your obedience,” that would be better. Yes, “O Allah, grant me success in Your obedience” is better than saying “do not occupy me.” I do not know this linguistic phrasing.
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 03 — archive.org (1:13:19)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.