How sound are the supplications mentioned in the "Dua of Study and Success" paper circulated among female students?
The supplications specifically for studying and success are Bid'ah (innovations), and there is no evidence from the Qur’an or toخصص them for what was mentioned. The verses and hadiths that mention them were revealed for general reasons related to asking Allah and supplicating to Him.خصص them for what was mentioned is not permissible, and one must abandon acting upon them. For supplication is an act of worship that is only valid if based on revelation (Tawqeef). A Muslim should supplicate to Allah to facilitate his affairs, increase his knowledge and understanding, inspire him with correctness, and remind him of what he has forgotten, withoutخصص an innovative supplication for each situation. This is safer for his religion and more likely to receive Allah's response. Allah has promised to answer and grant success to those who call upon Him and respond to what He has legislated, as He Almighty said: (And when My servants ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided) Al-Baqarah/186.
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