Can I perform istikharah as to whether I will get married to her or not. What are the positive signs of an istikharah? I performed istikharah once and saw in my dream a big gathering dressed in white. It was a vivid dream.
Answer
(Fatwa: 373/290/H=1434)
Offer salah with takbir tahrima for forty days. Also after each salah recite the following dua with durood 3-3 times before and after:
رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَاماً [القرآن الكريم]
And supplicate to Allah wholeheartedly. Also offer two rakah nafl salah of istikharah before going to bed and supplicate, O Allah if there is good in marrying this girl then make it easy for me and if there is no good in it then turn my heart from it. Amen! Instead of saying your parents yourself send them message through some influential persons (who is earnest and is considerate and has the relation of love and sympathy with your father), in-shaAllah, it shall yield good result.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband