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OP - July 20, 2011, 08:31 AM

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I am strong person and have made some heavy decisions in my life, but in the last few years since I went back to Islam, (before leaving it again lol), I have found Istikharah prayer… wow, lazy, and it was so easy, at the end Allah made the decision for me… I didn’t have to make it or take responsibility for the outcome, I just did Istikharah and said it was Allah’s will… FHS I did Istikharah for everything lol I became to afraid to make my own decisions because I thought it should be Allah controlling it..

What am I supposed to do now ..darn
… I guess I got to start making my own decisions again and taking responsibilities for them

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Reply #1 - July 20, 2011, 08:35 AM

Did you pray istikharah when you had to choose between chicken or lamb for dinner?

Oki its lame. But i had to do it.

Simple. Reason. Write down all the choices. And go for the most reasonable one??

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Reply #2 - July 20, 2011, 08:48 AM

yes almost I did do Istikharah for my menu choices, my friendships and most importantly who should I go out on a date with lol - OK dating wasn't really Islamic, but I sort of justified it haha

But see am fed up with reasonable, I want adventurous and risky decisions

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Reply #3 - July 20, 2011, 10:04 AM

Even when I was a practicing Muslim, I was skeptical about the validity of Istikhara. So, you have a choice to make between two (or more) options, and you think you will sleep on it. Before you do, you think about it in prayer, and you ask God to help you make the 'right' decision. When you wake up in the morning, you've dreamt about one of the options in a positive way/you wake up feeling especially positive about a particular option. Ta da! That's the right one!

... But, when you have a choice to make, even if you are finding it difficult, you know what the plus points and the downsides of making each of those choices will be. So they are known to you, even if in a haze. You are not an unbiased, passive spectator in the whole saga. One of the reasons why sleep is necessary to us, is so that the body can recuperate, both physically and mentally. It is quite common to dream about whatever it is that happened to us during the day, and making a choice on that and then attributing it to God is a bit .... silly (to say the least).
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Reply #4 - July 20, 2011, 10:06 AM

Quote from: Al-Ma`arri on July 20, 2011, 08:35 AM
Did you pray istikharah when you had to choose between chicken or lamb for dinner?

Oki its lame. But i had to do it.

LOL lame but funny ..............damn im easily amused lol

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Reply #5 - July 20, 2011, 08:14 PM

I never did Istikhara in my life.The irony of it, is that one of the founding fathers of Northern Nigerian Region Sir Ahmadu bello who served as the first premier(or Governor) of the Northern Region of Nigeria, was told that he was going to be killed the following day by the military who are planning for a coup to overthrow the civilian federal government,instead of him to heed the warning by moving out of Kaduna and hide somewhere, he decided to perform Istikhara then sent his children away to his hometown and remain in Kaduna. He believed Allah will protect him from the soldiers but he got killed on the late night.

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