What is the method of the prayer for seeking guidance (istikharah) and its supplication?
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Question:
This questioner, who has used the initials (A. A) as a code for his name, says: Your Eminence, what is the method of the prayer for seeking guidance (istikharah)? What is the required supplication, and is the supplication made during the two rak'ahs or after finishing them? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
The prayer for seeking guidance (istikharah) is that one prays two rak'ahs, then supplicates afterwards, and seeks guidance using what was reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). After the taslim, he raises his hands and asks, saying: and he names it, such as "my marriage to so-and-so," "my travel to such-and-such a country," "my trade in this thing"; he names it Jami` at-Tirmidhi 480Sahih (Darussalam) and names it by its name Sahih Ibn Hibban 7:282 This is the Sunnah in seeking guidance. Yes.
The presenter : May Allah bless you.
This questioner, who has used the initials (A. A) as a code for his name, says: Your Eminence, what is the method of the prayer for seeking guidance (istikharah)? What is the required supplication, and is the supplication made during the two rak'ahs or after finishing them? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
The prayer for seeking guidance (istikharah) is that one prays two rak'ahs, then supplicates afterwards, and seeks guidance using what was reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). After the taslim, he raises his hands and asks, saying:
O Allah, I seek Your guidance by Your knowledge, and I seek Your power by Your might, and I ask You of Your immense bounty; for You know and I do not know, and You have power and I do not have power, and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if You know that this matter
اللهم إني أستخيرك بعلمك، وأستقدرك بقدرتك، وأسألك من فضلك العظيم؛ فإنك تعلم ولا أعلم، وتقدر ولا أقدر، وأنت علام الغيوب، اللهم إن كنت تعلم أن هذا الأمرgood for me in my religion or my livelihood, and for my life in the Hereafter - or he said: for my present and future - then make it easy for me, then bless me in it. If You know that this matter
خير لي في ديني ومعاشي وعاقبة أمري فيسره لي، ثم بارك لي فيه، وإن كنت تعلم أن هذا الأمرis bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affair, then turn it away from me, and turn me away from it, and decree for me the good wherever it may be, and then make me content with it.
شر لي في ديني ومعاشي وعاقبة أمري فاصرفه عني، واصرفني عنه، وقدر لي الخير حيث كان، ثم أرضني بهThe presenter : May Allah bless you.
Source
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