Is it permissible to say: "O Allah, do not let me remain until a time when I live on forbidden things"?
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A Muslim should say what the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, guided to: "O Allah, keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and cause me to die if death is better for me." The mentioned phrasing should be abandoned because it contradicts the .
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