Some of the shaykhs would encourage to make a general istikhara for the good of the day and what it brings. Below is the supplication of general istikhara by Shaykh Ahmad ibn Idris: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ، وَ أَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ، و أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ العَظِيمِ، فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَ لَا أَقْدِرُ، وَ تَعْلَمُ وَ لَا أَعْلَمُ، وَ أَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الغُيُوبِ اللَّهُمَّ مَا عَلِمْتَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ كَلَامِي…
This is a document with ~100 pages of shaykh Salih's handwritten supplications. مخطوطات سيدي الشيخ صالح الجعفري
Surah Ya-Sin: The Dua of Healing Al-Sayyid al-Shaykh Muhammad Salih b. Abd al-Ghani b. Salih al-Ja’fari Shaykh of the Ja’fariyya Ahmadiyya Muhammadiyya tariqa in Egypt and the Islamic World We saw Mawlana Shaykh Abd al-Ghani praying for his noble mother (the wife of Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari) when she was sick. He would encourage his family and the brothers to adopt this methodology to pray for those…
\ Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Salih said: “Sidna Shaykh Abd al-Ghani used to say that du‘a is the heart of worship, and as such, he advised us to make as much du‘a as one possibly could during the first 10 days of Dhul Hjjjah. Sidna Shaykh Abd al-Ghani would address in his Sermon on the Day of Arafa (as a Hajj pilgirm): how Allah, Sublime and Exalted…