DUA FOR ISTIKHARAH FOM HOLY QURAN

It is worth mentioning that ‘Allamah al-Majlisi has reported from some books written by our scholars on the authority of a book handwritten by Shaykh Yusuf al-’Uthmani on the authority of a book handwritten by Ayatollah ‘Allamah who said that Imam al-Sadiq (‘a) is reported to have said:

If you intend for Istikharah( ) from the Mighty Book (i.e. the Holy Qur’an), you may say this supplicatory prayer:

In the Name of Allah; the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.

If it is within Your determination and decree

that You may bestow upon the partisans of Muhammad’s Household, peace be upon them,

with the favor of relieving Your representative

and Your argument-person against Your creatures;

so, (please) bring out for us a verse from Your Book

from which we may draw a conclusion of that (matter).

You may then open the copy of the Holy Qur’an, count six pages, count six lines of the seventh page, and see what is written therein.”