The Formulation of Seeking Refuge from Trials
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: When seeking refuge from trials, what is the correct wording for the supplication? Should one say, “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from trials,” or should one say, “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the misleading trials”?
Answer:
Yes, because wealth is a trial and a wife is a trial. You say, “from the evil of trials.” You do not say, “I seek refuge in You from trials”; you say, “I seek refuge in You from the evil of trials.”
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: When seeking refuge from trials, what is the correct wording for the supplication? Should one say, “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from trials,” or should one say, “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the misleading trials”?
Answer:
Yes, because wealth is a trial and a wife is a trial. You say, “from the evil of trials.” You do not say, “I seek refuge in You from trials”; you say, “I seek refuge in You from the evil of trials.”
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل والفتنة نوعان : فتنة الشبهات وهي أعظم الفتنتين وفتنة الشهوات — islamhouse.com (50:44)
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