About this site
About Istikhara Dua
Istikhara Dua is part of the Muslims Around the World network, a family of Islamic websites.
Why a site for the istikhara dua
Istikhara Dua exists for one question people ask at big moments: how do I ask Allah to choose for me? It gives the dua in full from Hisn al-Muslim, the method from the same hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari 1162), and nothing that cannot be traced back to it.
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Who runs it
Istikhara Dua is made by Muslims Around the World. Each site in the family does one job and tries to do it well: a city's prayer times, a Ramadan timetable, a surah, a dua. Every one of them is listed on the Muslims Around the World sites page.
Muslims Around the World is protecting the legacy of Ali Banat, may Allah have mercy on him, and every site in the family is part of that work. Read his story.
You can learn more with us at the Muslims Around the World home page: short reminders from scholars, duas with their meaning, Quran recitations and prayer times.
The site is free, has no third-party adverts and needs no account.
Where the text comes from
- The Arabic of the duas
- Hisn al-Muslim (Fortress of the Muslim) by Sa‘id bin ‘Ali bin Wahf al-Qahtani, from the Arabic files published by hisnmuslim.com, copied unchanged. A few duas the book doesn’t hold come from the hadith collections named beside them, as muslimsaroundtheworld.org records them.
- English and transliteration
- Written by Muslims Around the World from the Arabic and shown exactly as on muslimsaroundtheworld.org. We don’t use the published English edition of the book.
- References
- Each dua carries the hadith collection and number it comes from. We only publish a number we can confirm in our source data; a dua without a confirmed reference isn’t shown.
- Quran verses
- Verses are the King Fahd Complex mushaf text (Hafs), from Quran.com’s data, checked letter for letter.
How every line is checked
Before a page is published, an automatic review compares every verse and every dua on it with the source files above, letter for letter: the Arabic, the English and the transliteration must be exactly the source's, and each dua and hadith must carry its reference. If one letter differs, the page is held back until it is put right. Explanations we write ourselves name their source in the same paragraph, and we don't give rulings in our own words.
If you spot a mistake, please tell us through muslimsaroundtheworld.org.