إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَمْراً فَخُذْ سِتَّ رِقَاعٍ فَاكْتُبْ فِي ثَلَاثٍ مِنْهَا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ خِيَرَةً مِنْ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ لِفُلَانِ بْنِ فُلَانَةَ افْعَلْهُ وَ فِي ثَلَاثٍ مِنْهَا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ خِيَرَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ لِفُلَانِ بْنِ فُلَانَةَ لَا تَفْعَلْ ثُمَّ ضَعْهَا تَحْتَ مُصَلَّاكَ ثُمَّ صَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَاسْجُدْ سَجْدَةً وَ قُلْ فِيهَا مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ أَسْتَخِيرُ اللَّهَ بِرَحْمَتِهِ خِيَرَةً فِي عَافِيَةٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوِ جَالِساً وَ قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ خِرْ لِي وَ اخْتَرْ لِي فِي جَمِيعِ أُمُورِي فِي يُسْرٍ مِنْكَ وَ عَافِيَةٍ ثُمَّ اضْرِبْ بِيَدِكَ إِلَى الرِّقَاعِ فَشَوِّشْهَا وَ أَخْرِجْ وَاحِدَةً فَإِنْ خَرَجَ ثَلَاثٌ مُتَوَالِيَاتٌ افْعَلْ فَافْعَلِ الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي تُرِيدُهُ وَ إِنْ خَرَجَ ثَلَاثٌ مُتَوَالِيَاتٌ لَا تَفْعَلْ فَلَا تَفْعَلْهُ وَ إِنْ خَرَجَتْ وَاحِدَةٌ افْعَلْ وَ الْأُخْرَى لَا تَفْعَلْ فَأَخْرِجْ مِنَ الرِّقَاعِ إِلَى خَمْسٍ فَانْظُرْ أَكْثَرَهَا فَاعْمَلْ بِهِ وَ دَعِ السَّادِسَةَ لَا تَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهَا.
Translation
Someone else, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al-Basry, from Al-Qasim Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Hashimy, from Haroun Bin Kharjat, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Whenever you intend a matter, so take six papers and write in three of them ‘In the Name of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> the Beneficent, the Merciful. Goodness is from Allah<sup>azwj</sup> the Mighty, the Wise, for so and so. Do it’; and in three of them (write), ‘In the Name of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> the Beneficent, the Merciful. Goodness is from Allah<sup>azwj</sup> the Mighty, the Wise, for so and so. Do not do ‘. Then place these beneath your prayer mat, then pray two Rak’at of <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>. So when you are free, perform a <span class="iTxt">Sajdah</span>, and say one hundred times, ‘I leave the choice to Allah<sup>azwj</sup> to Choose by His<sup>azwj</sup> Mercy, good in safety’. Then sit straight and say, ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! Pick for me and Choose for me in the entirety of my affairs in ease from You<sup>azwj</sup> and safety’. Then strike with your hand to the papers, and jumble them up, and extract one. So if the ‘do it’ comes up three times consecutively, so do the matter which you intended to; and if ‘don’t do’ comes up three times consecutively, so do not do it; and if one ‘do it’ comes up and the other two are ‘don’t do’, then extract from the papers up to five, and look at the majority of it and act upon it, and leave the sixth, as you are not needy to it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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