Istikharah prayer supplication

Oh God, if you know that this matter (and he calls it a need) is good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affairs - or he said: my immediate and my future affairs - then ordain it for me. He made it easy for me and then blessed me with it.

Completion of supplication

Oh God, I seek Your guidance through Your knowledge, and I seek Your power through Your ability, and I ask You of Your great grace, for You are able and I am not able. You know and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the unseen.

The beginning of the supplication (after praying two rak'ahs)

And if you know that this matter is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affairs - or he said: my immediate and future affairs - then turn it away from me. And turn me away from it, and ordain for me what is good wherever it may be, and then make me content with it.

The end of the supplication