The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam has said:
"If one of you is concerned about some practical undertaking, or about
making plans for ajourney, he should perform two Raka'aats (cycles) of
voluntary prayer." Then he should say the following Du'aa:
اللَّهمَّ إنِّي أستَخيرك بعلمكَ، و أستقدرك بقُدرتك، و أسْألك مِن فضلك العظيم،
فإنّك تَقْدر و لا أقْدِر، و تعلم و لا أعلم، و أنت علاَّمُالغُيوب.
اللَّهمَّ إنْ كنتَ تعلم أنَّهذا الأمْرِ خيرٌ لي في ديْني و معَاشي و عاقِبة أمري
– او قال عاجِل أمري و آجِله –
فاقْدِرْهُ لي و يسِّرْه لي ثمَّ بارِك لي فِيه،
و إن كنتَ تعلم أنَّ هذا الأمرِ شرٌّ لي في دِيني و معآشِي و عاقبةِ أمْرِي
– او قال في عاجِل أمرِي و آجِله –
فاصْرِفْه عَنِّي، و اصْرفْنِي عَنه، و اقْدِر لِيَ الخيْرَ حَيْثُ كان
ثُمَّ ارْضِنِي بِه.
Oh Allah! I seek Your guidance by virtue of Your knowledge, and I seek
ability by virtue of Your power, and I ask You of Your great bounty.
You have power;I have none. And You know; I know not. You are the
Knower of hiddenthings.
Oh Allah! If in Your knowledge this matter isgood for my religion, my
livelihood and my affairs,immediate and in the future, then ordain it
for me, make it easy for me, and bless it for me. And ifin Your
knowledge this matter is bad for my religion, my livelihood and my
affairs, immediate and in the future, then turn it away from me, and
turn me away from it. And ordain for me the good wherever it may be,
and make me content with it.
Salatul Istikhara
We all turn to Allah during times when we are in need, and one of the
most common methods and reasons for turning to Him is to seek His
guidance through theSalaah of Istikhara.
Istikhara, in reality, means "to seek goodnessfrom Allah" according to
some Ulamaa and according to some it is "to seek guidance from Allah".
Whichever meaning we take, it is a prayer and supplication which is
made by a believer to His Lord to help him in the time of need and
confusion.
However, it is also a known fact that many people experience confusion
about this particular prayer. The main reason for the occurrence of
confusion is because the person who is offering this prayer is
expecting divine guidance from Allah Ta'ala and therefore has this
belief in this heart that whatever result and pathhe is shown to take
will be the correct path and the most beneficial path for him chosen
by Allah Himself.
However, when people offer this prayer, it is witnessed that the
confusion of a person is not removed. Furthermore, the path that one
appears to havebeen told to take is sometimes not a smoothand clear
path; instead, the person apparently faces more difficulty in taking
that path.
It is for this reason that itis vital to clear a few misconceptions
and furthermore present a wonderful insight of a great scholar from
the followers of Imaam Shafi'ee Rahimahullah.
First View
The first and most common view of Istikhara is that it is a prayer
through which one seeks the guidance from Allah Ta'ala. It is a prayer
that removes the confusion a person is experiencing in a matter he
wishes to undertake; be that matter should you marry this certain
person? Should you attend this graduate school? Should you take this
job offer or that one?
Therefore, the person who performs this prayerdoes so in order to seek
guidance from Allah Ta'ala and hopes that his heart will be inclined
towards one of the two matters thus enlightening him as to what
decision to make.
However, as mentioned before, we sometimes see that we do not receive
any sort of inclination after the Istikhara, or that once the decision
is made we go through difficulties in the option we followed due to
the Istikhara.
Explanation
Primarily, it should be understood that, according to this view, we
are seeking Allah's complete knowledge to guide us and therefore we
should understand that whatever path we take is the right path for us
and no matter what apparent difficulties we go through there is
somebenefit for us within this path that Allah has inclined our hearts
towards.
Furthermore, if we feel that there is no inclination towards a certain
matter then the scholars have mentionedthat we should perform the
prayer several times until we do receive an answer from Allah Ta'ala.
Second View
Istikhara rather than being a prayer for guidance it is a supplication
(Du'aa) to Allah Ta'ala and a prayer to seek goodness from Him. It is
through this prayer that a person asksAllah Ta'ala to put goodness in
whatever hedecides to do and a supplication to Allah asking Him to
guide him towards that in which there is goodness for himand keep him
away fromthat which has no goodness for him.
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