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SUPPLICATION FOR A NEW VENTURE

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“The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, used to teach us to ask Allah in all matters, in the same way that he taught us the chapters of the Koran.

He would say: ‘When any of you intend to embark upon a (new) enterprise, first he should pray two units of voluntary prayer and then supplicate, ‘O Allah, I seek good from You because Yours is the Ability, and I seek power from You because Yours is the Power, and beg of You because of Your tremendous Grace, because Yours is the Power and I have no power, and You have Knowledge and I have no knowledge. You know what is hidden. O Allah, You know whether or not this matter is good for me in respect of my faith, subsistence and the ultimate in my affairs, if it is good grant me power over it, and make it easy for me and bless it for me. But if it is bad for my faith, subsistence or the ultimate in my affairs, then remove it and distance me from it, and grant me power to do good wherever it may be and then let me be pleased with it.’”

After having made this supplication you should specify the particular affair.

Bukhari with a chain up to Jabir who related this.

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