The Meaning of “I Seek Refuge in You from You…”

Question:
With an explanation of how to seek refuge by saying: “I seek refuge in You from You,” please clarify this issue for us?

Answer:
This is an authentic hadith from the supplication of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and this indicates that it is permissible, indeed prescribed, to seek refuge in the attributes of Allah from the attributes of Allah, and to seek refuge in Allah from Allah. Thus, he seeks refuge in His pleasure from His anger: This is in the category of seeking refuge in one attribute from another attribute, and seeking refuge in forgiveness from punishment. Meaning: by Your power and Your ability to punish me and chastise me with Your justice, Your forgiveness, Your bounty, Your grace, and Your kindness. So he seeks nearness to Allah through the attributes of justice and the attributes of punishment by means of the attributes of forgiveness, kindness, generosity, and nobility, and all of these are attributes of Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He).
So a person seeks refuge in His pleasure from His anger, in His forgiveness from His punishment, and in His forbearance, patience, and kindness from His punishment of His servant and His withholding of His bounty… and so on, from what may befall a servant because of his sins and his evil deeds.
So it is seeking refuge in His attributes from His attributes, and it is seeking refuge in Allah ; seeking refuge in His attributes is seeking refuge in Him . And like: The words are an attribute among His attributes, by which he seeks refuge from the evil of what He has created .
And likewise, seeking refuge in the might of Allah and in the might of Allah and His power from the evil of what I find and what I fear, as in the hadith. If something causes him pain in his body, it is prescribed for him to place his hand on it and say: Narrated by Muslim from the hadith of Uthman ibn Abi al-As. All of this is in the category of seeking refuge in the attributes of Allah from the attributes of Allah. So he seeks refuge in His might and His power from the evil of what he finds and fears of pains and illnesses, and he seeks refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created of jinn and humans. Yes.

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