{"id":3985,"date":"2016-12-13T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:28:42","slug":"which-comes-first-istikharah-or-istisharah-seeking-council-shaikh-ibn-ul-uthaymeen-and-shaikh-yahya-ibn-ali-al-hajoori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=3985","title":{"rendered":"Which comes first: Istikharah or Istisharah (seeking council)? &#8211; Shaikh Ibn ul-&#8216;Uthaymeen and Shaikh Yahya ibn Ali al-Hajoori"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>Shaikh Ibn ul-\u2018Uthaymeen rahimahullah:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scholars have differed: does seeking counsel precede or Istikhaarah? What is correct is that Istikharah comes first. Istikharah precedes due to the statement of the Prophet (\ufdfa):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u0625\u0630\u0627 \u0647\u0645 \u0623\u062d\u062f\u0643\u0645 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0631 \u0641\u0644\u064a\u0635\u0644 \u0631\u0643\u0639\u062a\u064a\u0646<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhen one of you contemplates entering upon an enterprise, let him perform two Rak\u2019ah of optional prayer\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Sharh Riyaad us-Saliheen (1\/792)]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis is also the fatwa of Shaikh Yahya al-Hajoori hafidhuhallah:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question<\/strong>: Which precedes: Istikharah or Istishaarah?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: &#8220;Whichever he precedes with, then there is no harm. However, what is more deserving is to precede the Istikharah&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sh-yahia.net\/show_s_fatawa_210.html\">https:\/\/www.sh-yahia.net\/show_s_fatawa_210.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<br \/>\nAbu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaikh Ibn ul-\u2018Uthaymeen rahimahullah: \u201cThe Scholars have differed: does seeking counsel precede or Istikhaarah? What is correct is that Istikharah comes first. Istikharah precedes due to the statement of the Prophet (\ufdfa): \u0625\u0630\u0627 \u0647\u0645 \u0623\u062d\u062f\u0643\u0645 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0631 \u0641\u0644\u064a\u0635\u0644 \u0631\u0643\u0639\u062a\u064a\u0646 \u201cWhen one of you contemplates entering upon an enterprise, let him perform two Rak\u2019ah of optional prayer\u2026\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}