Supplications for which no evidence has been reported, said to bring sustenance. When we ask them for evidence, they say: This is a proven matter?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is teaching people certain prescribed invocations (awrad) for which there is no evidence to bring sustenance or anything else considered a prescribed matter? This is because when we ask them for evidence for this invocation, they are content with saying that it is merely...

Answer:
It is not sufficient that it is proven; a person’s need may be met through the door of trial and testing, or through gradual luring (istidraj). This will be discussed in this lesson, if Allah wills. The fulfillment of a request does not indicate permissibility; only evidence from the Book and the Sunnah does.