Inquiring about a prayer called the Prayer of Seeking Forgiveness: What is its authenticity?
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The questioner : He is inquiring, O Shaykh Muhammad, about a prayer called the Prayer of Seeking Forgiveness. What is the authenticity of this?
The Shaykh : I do not know of a prayer called the Prayer of Seeking Forgiveness. However, if a person performs wudu' (ablution) and perfects it, then prays two rak'ahs without distracting himself with his own thoughts, Allah will forgive him his past sins, as is authentic in the hadith of 'Uthman ibn 'Affan (may Allah be pleased with him). If you perfect your wudu' and pray a prayer in which you do not distract yourself with your own thoughts, then what has preceded of your sins will be forgiven, even the sin you committed as your last act. Yes.
The questioner : How, Shaykh Muhammad, is distracting oneself with one's own thoughts defined?
The Shaykh : Distracting oneself with one's own thoughts refers to the whispers we call intrusive thoughts.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And this is the distraction of the self. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : I do not know of a prayer called the Prayer of Seeking Forgiveness. However, if a person performs wudu' (ablution) and perfects it, then prays two rak'ahs without distracting himself with his own thoughts, Allah will forgive him his past sins, as is authentic in the hadith of 'Uthman ibn 'Affan (may Allah be pleased with him). If you perfect your wudu' and pray a prayer in which you do not distract yourself with your own thoughts, then what has preceded of your sins will be forgiven, even the sin you committed as your last act. Yes.
The questioner : How, Shaykh Muhammad, is distracting oneself with one's own thoughts defined?
The Shaykh : Distracting oneself with one's own thoughts refers to the whispers we call intrusive thoughts.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And this is the distraction of the self. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.