Pet Peeve Regarding Istikharas

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Re: Pet Peeve Regarding Istikharas

I don’t understand a few points mentioned here, no offense to anyone, I’m just trying to clear my doubts.

@OneYourMomWarnedAbt

You are exactly right; people seem to be confused about it. If things go wrong, **they never blame their lack of knowledge; **instead blame it on the istikharah itself. It is really sad to see. Another thing I see is to have someone else do it. And now there are peer babas doing it for the money. Its ridiculous! May Allah protect us.

Isn’t it this lack of knowledge about the future that’s the reason for istikhara in the first place, when we are asking for guidance because we don’t know anything about future but He does?

The other part I agree, I don’t get how people trust random peers to do istikhara for them. Also there doesn’t necessarily have to be any dream etc for us to get guidance.

@Mezhgan

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• “Convince” themselves to go through with something that they’re intuition, common sense and every sane person around them is telling them to re-think and not go through with.

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How is the istikhara convincing them when all the signs are pointing the other way? If it seems so bad that everyone is seeing it then shouldn’t the istikhara point away from it? Isn’t it the person’s own perception of the whole thing rather than the istikhara itself misguiding them?

@redvelvet

If something is good for you, it’ll take place. If not, it won’t.

This. Things happen as they are supposed to happen so how does istikhara help us in this regard because even if we do it or not, things will still happen the same way?