The ruling on making a worldly request in supplication during prostration
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Question:
In the second question, the questioner, Umm Khalid from al-Bahah, says: Your Eminence, during prostration and after the glorification, I make incidental supplications, meaning: from life, such as asking for forgiveness for myself and my parents, or that He preserve for me...
The Shaykh: Repeat, repeat.
The presenter: The questioner says: During prostration and after the glorification, I make incidental supplications, meaning: from life, such as asking for forgiveness for myself and my parents, or that He preserve my children... and so on. Does this invalidate the prayer, because it is speech outside the original prayer?
Answer:
It is all good. Supplication in prostration is good. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Riyad as-Salihin 1427 meaning: so it is fitting that your supplications be answered. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sunan Abi Dawud 875Sahih (Al-Albani) This encompasses supplication for this world and supplication for the Hereafter. And he used to say in his prostration (peace and blessings be upon him): Sahih Muslim 483, and he used to say in his bowing and prostration: Sahih al-Bukhari 4293.
So if a person supplicates in prostration regarding matters of the Hereafter and this world, there is nothing wrong with it. O Allah, forgive me and have mercy on me. O Allah, rectify my offspring. O Allah, rectify my spouse. O Allah, forgive my parents. O Allah, provide me with lawful sustenance... and the like of this. Yes, it is all good in prostration. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, Your Eminence.
In the second question, the questioner, Umm Khalid from al-Bahah, says: Your Eminence, during prostration and after the glorification, I make incidental supplications, meaning: from life, such as asking for forgiveness for myself and my parents, or that He preserve for me...
The Shaykh: Repeat, repeat.
The presenter: The questioner says: During prostration and after the glorification, I make incidental supplications, meaning: from life, such as asking for forgiveness for myself and my parents, or that He preserve my children... and so on. Does this invalidate the prayer, because it is speech outside the original prayer?
Answer:
It is all good. Supplication in prostration is good. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Glorify your Lord in Ruku' (bowing posture) and exert yourself in supplication in prostration. Thus your supplications are liable to be accepted.
أما الركوع فعظموا فيه الرب، وأما السجود فاجتهدوا في الدعاء فقمن أن يستجاب لكمThe nearest a servant come to his Lord is when he is prostrating himself, so make supplication often.
أقرب ما يكون العبد من ربه وهو ساجد فأكثروا الدعاءO Lord, forgive me all my sins, small and great, first and last, open and secret.
اللهم اغفر لي ذنبي كله دقه وجله، وأوله وآخره، وعلانيته وسرهSubhanaka Allahumma Rabbanã wa bihamdika, Allãhumma ighfirli
سبحانك اللهم ربنا وبحمدك اللهم اغفر ليSo if a person supplicates in prostration regarding matters of the Hereafter and this world, there is nothing wrong with it. O Allah, forgive me and have mercy on me. O Allah, rectify my offspring. O Allah, rectify my spouse. O Allah, forgive my parents. O Allah, provide me with lawful sustenance... and the like of this. Yes, it is all good in prostration. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, Your Eminence.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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