Door to Wisdom

26.Dua for Istikharah

Bismillah hir Rahmaan nir Rahmeen

Allaahumma inni astakheeruka bi ‘ilmika wa astaqdiruka bi qudratika wa as’aluka min fadlika, fa innaka taqdiru wa laa aqdir, wa ta’lamu wa laa a’lam, wa anta ‘allaam al-ghuyoob. Allaahumma fa in kunta ta’lamu haadha’l-amra (then the matter should be mentioned by name) khayran li fi ‘aajil amri wa aajilihi (or: fi deeni wa ma’aashi wa ‘aaqibati amri) faqdurhu li wa yassirhu li thumma baarik li fihi. Allaahumma wa in kunta ta’lamu annahu sharrun li fi deeni wa ma’aashi wa ‘aaqibati amri (or: fi ‘aajili amri wa aajilihi) fasrifni ‘anhu [wasrafhu ‘anni] waqdur li al-khayr haythu kaana thumma radini bihi.

Meaning:

"O Allah, I seek Your counsel by Your knowledge and by Your power I seek strength and I ask You from Your immense favour,

For indeed You are able while I am not and You know while I do not and You are the Knower of the unseen.

O Allah, if You know (this affair) - or you may mention your need now - to be good for me in relation to my religion, my life, and end, then decree and facilitate it for me, and bless me with it,

And if You know this affair to be ill for me in my religion, my life, and my end, then remove it from me and remove me from it, and decree for me what whatever is good wherever it may be and make me satisfied with it".

Note:

*One who seeks guidance from his Creator, consults his fellow believers and then remains firm in his resolve does not regret, for Allah has said:

“…and consult them in the affair. Then when you have taken a decision, put your trust in Allah...”

*Al-Istikharah dua is to be said after intention was already made to do something where guidance of Allah is needed here to ease the path towards achieving this intended matter if it was beneficial for the individual, and not (as understood by many) to choose between two matters, when unsure.

On the authority of Jabir Ibn Abdullah, he said, “The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would instruct us to pray for guidance in all of our concerns, just as he would teach us a chapter from the Quran.”

He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would say, If any of you intends to undertake a matter then let him pray two supererogatory units (two rakaah nafilah) of prayer and after which he should supplicate the above dua.

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