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Istikhara الاستخارة is a way to ask Allah for Guidance

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Istikharah decision, can my dreams be used too? Is my sihr affecting me making my decision?

Bismillah Assalamualaikum, I hope you can clarify the things that have been bothering me. Here's a little background: I have a best friend of 5 years. We always had our ups and downs but recently she'...
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Salah al-istikhara

Salam alekom guys , so as everyone knows the salah is 2 rakkat and we recite the dua after sallah. The question is , I have a hard time reading in Arabic and I’ve been doing my dua in English but ...
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Salate el Isstikhara to answer personal questions (professional life)?

Salam, Can Salat el isstikhara help me to understand and to answer questions related to my professional life ? For example, I do not find my place, I am 33 years old and still did not find the meaning ...
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Istikharah approach to pick right option from the three options

Folks, I have three choices & I need to pick one for a professional life. So how do I utilize Istikharah to pick the best one & move forward? & at the same give sincere devotion after ...
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Istekhara about potenial marriage

Assalamwalaikum. I met a guy, and we have known each other for 5 months now. It felt like an instant connection, we clicked. We really wanted to marry and spend our lives together. We both felt right ...
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Can I perform Istikhara as Christian yet to revert to islam

Assalamalaikum. Am a Christian and from a very strict and religious Christian family, I love this guy and he began to teach me things about Islam and I fell in love with Islam. We both would want to ...
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Negative istekhara

A.O.A I met a guy before 7 months and i really like him he also likes me so we want to marry each other. So for that purpose we asked a moulvi to do istekhara for us n he told us that your istakara ...
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Is it must to follow a negative result after praying istikhara

Assalamu aleykum I had relationship with a boy for nearly 2 years. We chose each other for our deen and planned to get married. Alhamdulilah our parents accepted. Within our relationship we had ...
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Confused over whether result of my istikhara is positive or negative

I have been interested in a girl I met in my university. I wanted to ask for her hand in marriage but she told me she was already engaged to someone from her family (although she was interested in me ...
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What is the correct way of doing istikharah

What is the correct way of doing istikharah? I have found a lot of different methods online but not sure which one is authenticated.
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Does istikharah work if you just read it without doing salah?

Does istikharah still work if someone reads the istikharah without doing salah? For example, if someone is sitting on their office desk or if they are reading it before bed. Or does istikharah only ...
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Isthikarah questions

Assalaamualaikum, I wanted some advice on isthikarah for marriage for myself. If the womans isthikarah is a positive feeling but the man had a dream which was negative and in the dream the woman was ...
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Can we do Istikhara twice for something?

Based on my researches, in the Urf (custom or tradition of the society), Istikhara often/always is done once for everything. Some days ago, a friend of mine did a Istikhara for doing something (to ...
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Step 1. Istikharah. Step 2. "Will you marry me?" Step 3. "No." Is this how it's meant to work?

After my first attempt at istikharah, I feel like it perhaps didn't go how it's meant to. Basically, this is what happened: I tried to perform istikharah (but I did it quite clumsily). I asked a ...
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Is it acceptable to perform istakhara in English? If so, how?

I am not good at learning and speaking Arabic and few matters has arisen in life, where I need guidance from Allah. Is it possible to do istakhara in English or just listen to the dua for istakhara? ...
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