Allamah Hilli (r.a.) says in the book of Minhajus Salah that:There is another method of Istikhara, which I have narrated from my respected
father, Sadeeduddin Yusuf bin Ali bin Motahhar (r.a.) from Sayyid Raziuddin
Muhammad Aawi Husaini (r.a.) from the Master of the Affair (a.s.); and it is as
follows:
Recite Surah Fatiha ten times, three times or at least once.
Then recite Surah Qadr ten times. Then recite the following supplication
thrice:
Then recite Surah Qadr ten times. Then recite the following supplication
thrice:
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّيْ اَسْتَخِيْرُكَ لِعِلْمِكَ بِعَوَاقِبِ الْاُمُوْرِ وَ اَسْتَشِيْرُكَ
لِحُسْنِ ظَنِّيْ بِكَ فِي الْمَاْمُوْلِ وَ الْمَحْذُوْرِ اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنْ كَانَ
هٰذَا الْاَمْرُ الْفُلَانِيُّ قَدْ نِيْطَتْ بِالْبَرَكَةِ اَعْجَازُهٗ وَ
بَوَادِيْهِ، وَ حُفَّتْ بِالْكَرَامَةِ اَيَّامُهٗ وَ لَيَالِيْهِ فَخِرِ اللّٰهُمَّ
لِيْ فِيْهِ خِيَرَةً تَرُدُّ شَمُوْسَهٗ ذَلُوْلًا، وَ تَقْعَضُ اَيَّامَهٗ سُرُوْرًا،
اَللّٰهُمَّ اِمَّا اَمْرٌ فَآتَمِرُ وَ اِمَّا نَهْيٌ فَاَنْتَهِيْ، اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّيْ
اَسْتَخِيْرُكَ بِرَحْمَتِكَ خِيَرَةً فِيْ عَافِيَةٍ.
اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّيْ اَسْتَخِيْرُكَ لِعِلْمِكَ بِعَوَاقِبِ الْاُمُوْرِ وَ اَسْتَشِيْرُكَ
لِحُسْنِ ظَنِّيْ بِكَ فِي الْمَاْمُوْلِ وَ الْمَحْذُوْرِ اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنْ كَانَ
هٰذَا الْاَمْرُ الْفُلَانِيُّ قَدْ نِيْطَتْ بِالْبَرَكَةِ اَعْجَازُهٗ وَ
بَوَادِيْهِ، وَ حُفَّتْ بِالْكَرَامَةِ اَيَّامُهٗ وَ لَيَالِيْهِ فَخِرِ اللّٰهُمَّ
لِيْ فِيْهِ خِيَرَةً تَرُدُّ شَمُوْسَهٗ ذَلُوْلًا، وَ تَقْعَضُ اَيَّامَهٗ سُرُوْرًا،
اَللّٰهُمَّ اِمَّا اَمْرٌ فَآتَمِرُ وَ اِمَّا نَهْيٌ فَاَنْتَهِيْ، اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّيْ
اَسْتَخِيْرُكَ بِرَحْمَتِكَ خِيَرَةً فِيْ عَافِيَةٍ.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O Allah,
indeed I seek Istikhara through Your knowledge about the result of the matter.
And I want advice from you about my good expectation about doing it or not
doing it. O Allah, if so and so matter is blessed and full of good. And choose
for me that which is good in it and dispel its evil and change them into days
of happiness. O Allah, if you ordered it then order it and if you prohibit it
then prohibit it. O Allah, indeed I seek Istikhara through Your mercy in which
there is good through Your mercy.
indeed I seek Istikhara through Your knowledge about the result of the matter.
And I want advice from you about my good expectation about doing it or not
doing it. O Allah, if so and so matter is blessed and full of good. And choose
for me that which is good in it and dispel its evil and change them into days
of happiness. O Allah, if you ordered it then order it and if you prohibit it
then prohibit it. O Allah, indeed I seek Istikhara through Your mercy in which
there is good through Your mercy.
Now, hold with one hand one end of the rosary with your
purpose in mind and move your other hand for some part and hold it and then
count the number of beads separated by you; if the number is odd, it is Afal,
that ‘do it’. And if it is even, it is ‘don’t’.[1]
purpose in mind and move your other hand for some part and hold it and then
count the number of beads separated by you; if the number is odd, it is Afal,
that ‘do it’. And if it is even, it is ‘don’t’.[1]
Shaykh Shaheed Awwal says in Dhikri:[2] A
kind of Istikhara is the Istikhara of number and this type was not popular in
the past, before the time of the great Sayyid, Abid Raziuddin Muhammad Aawi
Husaini, caretaker of Mashad Muqaddas Gharavi, and I narrate or I have
permission to narrate this Istikhara from him and all his narrators, including
his teachers from the great Shaykh, Jamaaluddin Motahhar from his father from
Sayyid Razi from Saahebul Amr (a.s.).[3]
kind of Istikhara is the Istikhara of number and this type was not popular in
the past, before the time of the great Sayyid, Abid Raziuddin Muhammad Aawi
Husaini, caretaker of Mashad Muqaddas Gharavi, and I narrate or I have
permission to narrate this Istikhara from him and all his narrators, including
his teachers from the great Shaykh, Jamaaluddin Motahhar from his father from
Sayyid Razi from Saahebul Amr (a.s.).[3]
[3]
Allamah Majlisi in Risala Mafatihul
Ghaib has said that the respected father of this humble servant, has
narrated from the honorary Shaykh, Shaykh Bahauddin Muhammad (r.a.) that he
said: I heard from the Shaykh that he has narrated from Imam Asr (a.s.) in the
way an Istikhara of Tasbeeh that three times recite Salawat on Muhammad and
Aale Muhammad and hold the Tasbeeh and count in twos.
Allamah Majlisi in Risala Mafatihul
Ghaib has said that the respected father of this humble servant, has
narrated from the honorary Shaykh, Shaykh Bahauddin Muhammad (r.a.) that he
said: I heard from the Shaykh that he has narrated from Imam Asr (a.s.) in the
way an Istikhara of Tasbeeh that three times recite Salawat on Muhammad and
Aale Muhammad and hold the Tasbeeh and count in twos.
If an odd
number remains it is a good Istikhara and if it is even it is bad and my
respected father performed this kind of Istikhara most of the time. [Late
author].
number remains it is a good Istikhara and if it is even it is bad and my
respected father performed this kind of Istikhara most of the time. [Late
author].