To Choose the Best Option when Hesitant

O Mohammad, and whoever is concerned with two matters, and prefer to choose the most satisfactory of those matters with regards to me, so I oblige him that, when he determining, he should say:

اللَّهُمَّ اخْتَرْ لِي بِعِلْمِكَ وَ وَفِّقْنِي بِعِلْمِكَ لِرِضَاكَ وَ مَحَبَّتِكَ. اللَّهُمَّ اخْتَرْ لِي بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَ جَنِّبْنِي بِعِزَّتِكَ وَ قُدْرَتِكَ مِنْ مَقْتِكَ وَ سَخَطِكَ. اللَّهُمَّ اخْتَرْ لِي فِيمَا أُرِيدُ مِنْ هَذَيْنِ الْاَمْرَيْنِ وَ تُسَمِّيهِمَا أَحَبَّهُمَا إِلَيْكَ وَ أَرْضَاهُمَا لَكَ وَ أَقْرَبَهُمَا مِنْكَ. اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِالْقُدْرَةِ الَّتِي زَوَيْتَ بِهَا عِلْمَ الْاَشْيَاءِ عَنْ جَمِيعِ خَلْقِكَ أَنْ تُصَلِّيَ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَ آلِ مُحَمَّد وَ اغْلِبْ بَالِي وَ هَوَايَ وَ سَرِيرَتِي وَ عَلاَنِيَتِي بِأَخْذِكَ وَ اسْفَعْ بِنَاصِيَتِي إِلَى مَا تَرَاهُ لَكَ رِضًى وَ لِي صَلاَحاً فِيمَا أَسْتَخِيرُكَ فِيهِ حَتَّى تُلْزِمَنِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَمْراً أَرْضَى فِيهِ بِحُكْمِكَ وَ أَتَّكِلُ فِيهِ عَلَى قَضَائِكَ وَ أَكْتَفِي فِيهِ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَ لاَ تَقْلِبْنِي وَ هَوَايَ لِهَوَاكَ مُخَالِفٌ وَ لاَ مَا أُرِيدُ لِمَا تُرِيدُ لِي مُجَانِبٌ اغْلِبْ بِقُدْرَتِكَ الَّتِي تَقْضِي بِهَا مَا أَحْبَبْتَ بِهَوَاكَ هَوَايَ، وَ يَسِّرْنِي لِلْيُسْرَى الَّتِي تَرْضَى بِهَا عَنْ صَاحِبِهَا وَ لاَ تَخْذُلْنِي بَعْدَ تَفْوِيضِي إِلَيْكَ أَمْرِي بِرَحْمَتِكَ الَّتِي وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْء.اللَّهُمَّ أَوْقِعْ خِيَرَتَكَ فِي قَلْبِي وَ افْتَحْ قَلْبِي لِلُزُومِهَا يَا كَرِيمُ آمِينَ. 

O Allah, choose for me the best with Your knowledge and grant me success with Your knowledge for Your satisfaction and love. O Allah, choose for me according to Your power and protect me with Your might and power from Your displeasure and anger. O Allah, choose for me in what I desire of these two matters and name the most beloved of them to You and pleasing to You, and the closest to You. O Allah, I ask You by the Power with which You have veiled the knowledge of all things from all Your creation, to bless Mohammad and the family of Mohammad, and to overcome my desires, my passions, my secrets, and my public affairs by Your taking hold of me, and to guide me by holding my forelock to what You see as pleasing for me and beneficial for me in whatever I seek Your advice about, until You impose upon me a matter in which I am pleased with Your decree, and I rely on Your judgment, and I suffice in it by Your power, and do not turn me and my desires contrary to Your desires, nor what I want to be contrary to what You want for me. Overcome with Your power my desires, by which You decree what You have loved by Your desires, and facilitate for me the ease with which You are pleased with from its possessor, and do not abandon me after I have entrusted my affair to You, by Your mercy which has encompassed all things. O Allah, place Your choice in my heart and open my heart to adhere to it, O Generous, Amen.

For indeed, when he says that, I choose for him his benefits in the immediate and distant future.

   Bihar Al-Anwar (ed. - Beirut), vol. 92, p. 312

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