Is there a prayer called "Istikhbar Prayer" by which a Muslim seeks information about a matter of the unseen?
The author did not find a prayer by the mentioned name and warned against trying to foresee the future, as it is among the acts of soothsayers and diviners and leads to deviation and apostasy, because Allah alone has knowledge of the unseen. Therefore, claiming to know it is a refutation of the Holy Quran, as Allah Almighty says: "Say: None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allah," and His saying: "But when he fell, the jinn realized that if they had known the unseen, they would not have remained in humiliating torment." He called for resisting manifestations of deviation and innovation.
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