Written by – Maram Muhammad
Saturday, December 2, 2023 04:00 AM
A question was sent to the Egyptian Fatwa House on its official website, the content of which was: “Are there specific verses to be read in the Istikharah prayer? If so, what are they?”
The Fatwa House’s response was as follows:
The worshiper recites whatever he wants from the Holy Qur’an in the Istikharah prayer, and it is desirable for him to recite in the first rak’ah after Al-Fatihah: “Say, O disbelievers” and in the second: “Say: He is God, the One.” It is appropriate to recite them in a prayer intended to sincerely desire, sincerely delegate, and demonstrate Inability belongs to God Almighty.
Some scholars have deemed it desirable to add in the Istikharah prayer to the recitation after Al-Fatihah the Almighty’s saying: “And your Lord creates whatever He wills and chooses. They have no choice. Glory be to Allah, and Most High above what they associate with Him. And your Lord knows.” Their breasts are not hidden, nor do they declare. [القصص: 68-69] In the first rak’ah, and in the second rak’ah, God Almighty says: “And it is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when God and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should have any choice in their affair, and whoever disobeys God, His Messenger has indeed gone astray in a clear error. [الأحزاب: 36].
The scholar Al-Tahtawi said in “His Commentary on Maraqi Al-Falah Sharh Nour Al-Idah” (p. 397, ed. Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah): [قوله: «فليركع ركعتين» يقرأ في الأولى بـ”الكافرون”، وفي الثانية بـ”الإخلاص”، وقال بعضهم: يقرأ في الأولى بقوله تعالى: ﴿وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَيَخْتَارُ﴾ إلى ﴿يُعْلِنُونَ﴾، وفي الثانية بقوله تعالى: ﴿وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ﴾ إلى قوله: ﴿مُبِينًا﴾] Oh.
2023-12-02 02:00:00
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