What is the ruling on the widespread supplications for "love and subduing hearts," especially those based on Quranic verses, and are they considered a bid‘ah (innovation)?
Supplication (Du'a) is a great act of worship, but one must not transgress in it. Among the transgressions is inventing supplications and making them fixed litanies (awrād), claiming they have special virtue or a guaranteed response, and then encouraging their use. Supplication and remembrance (dhikr) are based on divine revelation (Tawqif) and adherence (Ittiba'). Prophetic supplications are the best and safest, while anything else may be forbidden, disliked (), or involve polytheism (). It is not permissible to legislate a supplication or remembrance that Allah has not authorized, or to attribute a special virtue to an invented supplication, because Islamic law (Shari'ah) is not established by experience. Prophetic supplications offer sufficient and ample alternatives to innovations. Examples include the supplications for love or facilitating marriage widely circulated in forums, which are not legislated, and many of them are prohibited.
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