I heard it is very useful !! Can anybody tell me why ? how can we do ? does it help you answer uncertain things !! Like i am uncertain many things and i donot know why !! Of course God knows everything but lately it has been like i donot know anything , i am not learning why is that ?
2007-01-03 03:00:37 · 5 answers · asked by gokusanone 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Salat-l-Istikhara
This "prayer for guidance" is often used to help in important decision-making
Anytime a Muslim is making a decision, he or she should seek Allah's guidance and wisdom. Allah alone knows what is best for us, and there may be good in what we perceive as bad, and bad in what we perceive as good.
If you are ambivalent or unsure about a decision you have to make, there is a specific prayer for guidance (Salat-l-Istikhara) that you can do to ask for Allah's help in making your decision. Should you marry this certain person? Should you attend this graduate school? Should you take this job offer or that one? Allah knows what is best for you, and if you are not sure about a choice that you have, seek His guidance.
The Prophet Muhammad said, "If one of you is concerned about some practical undertaking, or about making plans for a journey, he should perform two cycles (rak'atain) of voluntary prayer." Then he/she should say the following du'a:
Translation:
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 hidden things.
Oh Allah! If in Your knowledge, (this matter*) is good 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 if in 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.
Transliteration:
Allahumma inni astakheeroka bi ilmik. Wa'astaq-diroka biqodratik. Wa'as'aloka min fadlikal-azeem. Fa'innaka taqdiru wala aqdir. Wata lamo wala-a lam. Wa'anta-allamul ghuyoob.
Allahumma in kunta ta lamu anna (hathal-amra*) khayul-lee fi deenee wama ashi wa ajila amri wa'ajilah, faqdorho lee, wayassirho lee, thomma-barik lee fih. Wa'in konta ta lamo anna (hathal-amra*) sharrul-lee fi deenee. Wama ashi. Wa ajila amri. Wa'ajilaho. Fasrifho annee. Wasrifnee anh. Waqdur leyal-khayr haytho kan. Thomma ardini bih.
* When making the du'a, the actual matter or decision should be mentioned instead of the words "hathal-amra" ("this matter").
* After doing salat-l-istikhara, you may feel more inclined toward a decision one way or the other.
* For more detail on performing the prayer, please see: Islam Q&A
2007-01-03 03:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by **PuRe** 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes istahara is useful prayer in islam, infact i have offered it when needed and i always got the answer ALhamdulillah, Wel you can find the method in any islamic book espcialy for dua's just pick a one and you will get the method and the arabic dua there, there is specialy preparation for that, you shuld be clean,wit clean dress, and should sleep on clean bed, offer two nafal,and after that read that dua, while keeping the purpose in your mind, and then sleep and don't let anyother thought comming to your mind,just think of that thing and pray to God to help u in guiding that, and go to sleep,
Well this is basicaly for asking Allah whether i shuld do saomething or not, then either you get the asnwer clear cut, or get the signs but once you ask ALlah for the help, He would help you inshALlah.
Well i offer it in that way, i don't know about any other method. Good luck !!!
2007-01-03 03:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salat istahara is a type of prayer where you ask Allah for guidence between two things that you are confused about. e.g. you want to travel to some place but you are not sure that is a good idea, so u go preform istihara.
from an Arabic website (translated through google):
and if needed to stop at the crossroads to resort to God and give him the command, and asked him to demonstrate good. One of the greatest worship event dispersion minded and puzzling man famed prayer ad referendum, which demonstrated by the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said : if ((if you are ordered Flisal where less then : "O God, I Astekhirk Balmk, Astekdrk being able, and ask you to please the great pleasures estimated no more, and learn not know, and you Algeob Allam. Except that you know that this - and-called need - the best in me, religious and subsistence consequence Imre Vagderh me, and I was pleased, then blessed me in it. Although I know that this is an evil to me in religious and subsistence and the consequences of the two urgent and why Vasserfh me Asservni him, and appreciate the goodness me where he was by then Arzni ")). [Al-Bukhari]
2007-01-03 03:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by Razan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why would you even want to ???no one can take yout petitions before God (who alone can grant it) other than Jesus
(Jn.14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. )
2007-01-03 03:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by revdauphinee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.allahexists.com
Brother i dont know about this prayer neither.
2007-01-03 03:05:03 · answer #5 · answered by Phlow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋