Ruling on the supplication: “O Allah, if You have written me as wretched…”
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Question:
Is it prescribed to make the supplication reported in the athar from 'Umar (may Allah have mercy on him) ... which is: “O Allah, if You have written me as wretched, erase me and write me as happy...”?
Answer:
This is reported from Ibn 'Umar.
The student: And if You have written me as happy...
The Shaykh: This is reported from Ibn 'Umar. The more apparent view is that this supplication is not prescribed; because happiness and wretchedness have been written and finalized. However, one should say: “O Allah, guide me, O Allah, rectify my heart, O Allah, grant me success,” and the like of that.
Q: Is it not from 'Umar?
The Shaykh: What I know is that it is from Ibn 'Umar, but if it was narrated from 'Umar, that is possible. As for what we know, it is from Ibn 'Umar.
Is it prescribed to make the supplication reported in the athar from 'Umar (may Allah have mercy on him) ... which is: “O Allah, if You have written me as wretched, erase me and write me as happy...”?
Answer:
This is reported from Ibn 'Umar.
The student: And if You have written me as happy...
The Shaykh: This is reported from Ibn 'Umar. The more apparent view is that this supplication is not prescribed; because happiness and wretchedness have been written and finalized. However, one should say: “O Allah, guide me, O Allah, rectify my heart, O Allah, grant me success,” and the like of that.
Q: Is it not from 'Umar?
The Shaykh: What I know is that it is from Ibn 'Umar, but if it was narrated from 'Umar, that is possible. As for what we know, it is from Ibn 'Umar.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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