Allahumma inni Astakhiruka Bi ilmika O Allah!

I ask guidance from Your knowledge (I am asking You for the better decision to guide me in making a choice due to Y our abundant knowledge - the most knowledgable) Wa Astakdiruka Bi Qudratika And Power from Your Might (I am asking you to grant me the ability, the strength through your strength - n o power except through Allah) Wa As'aluka Min Fadlikal Azueemi (and I ask for Your great blessings) I am asking you by your tremendous and great bounty, and grace Fa innaka Taqdiru Wala Aqdiru You are capable and I am not; you are able and i am unable Wa Ta'lamu Walaa A'lamu You know and I do not (You know and I do not know) Wa anta Allamul Ghuyub and You know the unseen (You know the secrets of the unseen, you are the One who knows everything) Allahumma In kunta Ta'lamu Anna Hazal Amra Khairulli Fi Deeni O Allah! If You know that this job is good for my religion (if you know that this particular thing is good for my deen) Wa Ma'aashi and my subsistence Wa Aaqibati Amri and in my Hereafter Wa Aajili Amri Wa'Aajilihi ( or said: If it is better for my present and later needs) Faqdurhuli And then bless me in it Wa Yasirrihuli Facitate the means for me Then You ordain it for me and make it easy for me to get Summa Baarikli Feehi Make it full of blessing (barakah) Wa'inkunta Ta'lamu O Allah if you know Anna Hazal Amra Sharruli If this affair and if You know that this job is harmful to me Fi Deeni In my religion Wa ma'aashi My livelihood

and subsistence Wa'Aaqibati Amri and in the Hereafter Wa Aajili Amri In the short and long term If it is worse for my present and later needs Wa Aajilihi Fa'asrif'hu Anni Keep it away from me Wa as'rifni Anhu Keep me away from it Waqdur liyal Khaira And decree for me that which is good And ordain for me whatever is good for me, Haiysu Kaana Whereever it may be Summa Raddini Bihi And make me satisfied with it