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SUPPLICATION FOR THE REAPPEARANCE OF IMAM MAHDI (A.S.)

IN THE SUPPLICATION OF ISTEKHARA THROUGH QUR’AN

Sayyid bin Taoos (R.A.) writes in his book ‘Fathul Abwaab’ that:

            Badr bin Yaqoob Muqirri Aa’jami (R.A.), in Kazimiyya, narrated three traditions regarding ‘Tafa’ul’ and Istekhara through Qur’an (without offering prayer for it) for us^[1].

 

FIRST TRADITION

Lift the Holy Qur’an and recite the following supplication:

  أَللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كانَ مِنْ قَضائِكَ وَقَدَرِكَ أَنْ تَمُنَّ عَلى اُمَّةِ نَبِيِّكَ بِظُهُورِ وَلِيِّكَ وَابْنِ بِنْتِ نَبِيِّكَ ، فَعَجِّلْ ذلِكَ ، وَسَهِّلْهُ وَيَسِّرْهُ وَكَمِّلْهُ ، وَأَخْرِجْ لي آيَةً أَسْتَدِلُّ بِها عَلى أَمْرٍ فَأَئْتَمِرُ ، أَوْ نَهْيٍ فَأَنْتَهي (أَوْ ما تُريدُ الْفالَ فيهِ) في عافِيَةٍ .

            O’ Allah, if it may be Your will and Your destiny to favor upon the nation of Your Prophet (peace be upon him) through the reappearance of Your Guardian and the son of Your Prophet’s daughter, then hasten it, and make it easy and complete it, and show me a verse through which I can comprehend Your command and perform my deed, or if You forbid me, I shall not perform it, (or for that which I seek Your will), so that this deed shall be performed with peace and safety.

Then count a few pages from the Holy Qur’an; from the second side of the seventh page, count six lines and from the seventh line, comprehend as per your intention.

 

SECOND TRADITION

After reciting the aforementioned supplication, open the Holy Qur’an and count seven pages, and from the second side of the seventh page and also from the first side of the eighth page, count the number of times the Holy name of Allah is repeated, then according to that number, count the pages of Qur’an. Thereafter, from the second side of the last page opened in front of you, begin to count the lines as per the number of Allah’s name you have previously counted, and comprehend your affair from the last line.

 

THIRD TRADITION

After reciting the supplication mentioned above, count eight pages, then count eleven lines from the first side of the eighth page, and derive your intended demand from that same eleventh line.

We have mentioned these three ways of seeking the divine advice through the Holy Qur’an, according to what we heard.^[2]