He was asked about a woman who heard the words in the hadith:

“O Allah, I am Your servant and the son of Your servant; my forelock is in Your hand,”

and so forth. She regularly used this wording. She was told, “Say, ‘O Allah, I am Your female servant, the daughter of Your female servant,’” and so forth. Yet she insisted on continuing to use the original wording. Is she correct or not?

He answered:

Rather, she should say:

“O Allah, I am Your female servant, the daughter of Your male servant, the son of Your female servant.”

This is more appropriate and better, although her saying, “Your servant, the son of Your servant,” does have a grammatical justification in Arabic, as with the word zawj (spouse). And Allah knows best.

He was asked about a man who made a supplication containing grammatical errors, whereupon another man told him, “Allah does not accept a supplication containing grammatical errors.”

He answered:

Whoever says this is sinful and contradicts the Quran, the Sunnah, and the practice of the early generations. As for anyone who calls upon Allah with sincere devotion to Him, using a permissible supplication, he is heard by