The Ruling on Adhering to a Specific Supplication During Tawaf

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a listener to the program, who has used the code name Abu Shakir, says: What is the ruling on my committing to a specific supplication from the first lap until the seventh lap of tawaf? What is the prescribed supplication in tawaf? And if some of the supplications do not come to my mind and I perform tawaf without supplication, is my tawaf permissible?

Answer:
Supplication in tawaf is a recommended practice (sunnah) and not obligatory; tawaf is valid even if one does not supplicate. No specific supplication has been established for tawaf; one supplicates with what is easy for him, what Allah opens up for him, and what he needs, so the matter is broad in this regard. No specific supplication was reported from him (peace and blessings be upon him) for tawaf, except what was reported that he says between the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone: .