Supplications of this sort are unanimously sanctioned by the scholars.
As for the wording,
“I ask You by the moorings of majesty of Your Throne,”(1)
there is a difference of opinion about it. More than one scholar allowed it because a report has come down regarding it, while it is related from Abū Ḥanīfah that he regarded it as disliked.
Abū’l-Ḥusayn al-Qudūrī(2) states in his Sharḥ al-Karkhī(3): Bishr ibn al-Walīd(4) said, “I heard Abū Yūsuf say: Abū Ḥanīfah—may Allah have mercy on him—said, ‘No one should call upon Allah except by Him, and I dislike the expressions, “by the mooring of the majesty of Your Throne,” or “by the right of Your creation.”’ ”
Abū Yūsuf added, “The mooring of the majesty of His Throne(6)(7) is Allah Himself, so I do not object to that. What I do object to is the wording, ‘by the right of so-and-so,’ or ‘by the right of Your prophets and messengers,’ or ‘by the right of the House and the Sacred Monument.’ This appeal to ‘right’ is what I deem objectionable.”
All of them agreed that asking by means of created beings is impermissible, for the creation has no claim upon the Creator; therefore one may not ask on the basis of something to which no entitlement exists. However, the mooring of majesty