Sayyidina Jabir ibn Abdullah (RA) said that Allah’s Messenger (SAW) taught them istikharah for every affair just as he taught them the chapters of the Quran. He said: When one of you is faced with a significant affair, let him pray two raka’at apart from the fard (prescribed). Then let him say: O Allah, I seek Your guidance through Your knowledge, and I seek strength through Your power, and I beg You for Your magnificent grace, for, You have power and I do not have it, and You have knowledge, and I do not have it, and surely You are the Best Knower of things which belong to the unseen. O Allah! If in Your knowledge this thing is better for me in terms of my faith and my wordly life and the out come of my pursuit then make it come easy on me and thereafter make it blessed for me And if in Your knowledge this thing is bad for me in terms of my faith and my worldly life and the outcome of my pursuit then make it stay away from me and make me stay dway from it. And, ordain the better (alternalive) for me in whatever way it may be, and then also make me be pleased with it.O And he should name his need.”