Fiqh al-Adiyah wa-al-AdhkarAbd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

149 / THE SUPPLICATION OF ISTIKHĀRA

This concerns the supplication of istikhāra, which it is recommended for a Muslim to recite when he intends to undertake something whose outcome and consequences he does not know. It is related in Sahīh al-Bukhārī that Jābir ibn Abd Allah—may Allah be pleased with them both—said:

“The Messenger of Allah—may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him—used to teach us istikhāra in all matters just as he taught us a surah of the Quran. He would say: ‘When one of you intends to undertake a matter, let him perform two units of prayer apart from the obligatory prayer, and then say: O Allah, I ask You to choose what is best for me by Your knowledge, and I seek ability through Your power, and I ask You of Your immense bounty. You have power, while I have none; You know, while I do not; and You are the All-Knowing of the unseen. O Allah, if You know that this matter is good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affair—or he said: in the immediate and later consequences of my affair—then decree it for me, make it easy for me, and then bless it for me. But if You know that this matter is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affair—or he said: in the immediate and later consequences of my affair—then turn it away from me and turn me away from it. Decree good for me wherever it may be, and then make me content with it.’” He said: “And he should name his need.” 1.

This great and blessed supplication, to which the Prophet—may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him—directed Muslims in this situation—the situation of asking Allah to choose what is best concerning a matter they are about to undertake, while uncertain whether its outcome will be good or evil, beneficial or harmful—is the substitute granted to the Muslim nation for the practices of the people of the Age of Ignorance. Whenever a need arose for one of them, such as marriage, travel, a sale, or the like, they would seek omens by sending birds into flight or would draw lots with divining arrows, seeking thereby

(1) Narrated by al-Bukhārī (no. 1162). On this hadith, see Dr. Āsim al-Qaryūtī, *Hadīth Salāt al-Istikhāra: Riwāyatan wa Dirāyatan* (The Hadith of the Istikhāra Prayer: Transmission and Critical Study).
١٤٩ / دُعَاءُ الاسْتِخَارَةِ الحديثُ هنا عن دعاءِ الاستخارة الذي يُستحبُّ للمسلم أن يقولَه إذا هَمَّ بفعل أمر لا يدري عاقبتَه ولا يعرف مآله، ففي صحيح البخاري عن جابر بن عبد الله ﵄ قال: "كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُعَلِّمُنَا الاسْتِخَارَةَ فِي الأُمُورِ كلِّها كَمَا يُعَلِّمُنَا السُّورَةَ مِنَ القُرْآنِ، يَقُولُ: إِذا هَمَّ أَحَدُكُمْ بِالأَمْرِ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ مِنْ غَيْرِ الفَرِيضَةِ، ثُمَّ لْيَقُلْ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ، وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ العَظِيمِ، فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلاَ أَقْدِرُ، وَتَعْلَمُ وَلاَ أَعْلَمُ، وَأَنْتَ عَلاَّمُ الغُيُوبِ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ هَذَا الأَمْرَ خَيْرٌ لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي أَوْ قَالَ: عَاجِلِ أَمْرِي وَآجِلِهِ فَاقْدُرْهُ لِي، وَيَسِّرْهُ لِي ثُمَّ بَارِكْ لِي فِيهِ، وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ هَذَا الأَمْرَ شَرٌّ لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي أَوْ قَالَ: عَاجِلِ أَمْرِي وَآجِلِهِ فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ، واقْدُرْ لِيَ الخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ، ثُمَّ أَرْضِنِي بِهِ. قَالَ: وَيُسَمِّي حَاجَتَهُ" ١. وهذا الدعاءُ العظيمُ المباركُ الذي أرشد إليه النَّبِيُّ ﷺ في هذا المقام، مقام طلب الخيرة في الأمر الذي يَقدم عليه المسلمُ، وهو متردد في مآله هل هو إلى خير أو إلى شر، وهل هو إلى نفع أو إلى ضرٍّ، هو عِوضٌ لأمَّة الإسلام عما كان عليه أهل الجاهلية من زَجْر الطير والاستقسام بالأزلام إذا بَدَتْ للواحد منهم حاجةٌ من نكاح أو سفر أو بيع أو نحو ذلك، فيطلبون بذلك
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