Istikarah is NOT done when a Person is Uncertain

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As Salaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh! I hope this finds you close to Allah & in the best of health and Iman.

Shaykh Muhammad bin 'Umar Bazmool said: That al-Istikharah is not done
when a person is uncertain about the matter at hand; because the
Prophet sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam said: "that if any of you intends to undertake
a matter" and that the whole of the Duaa indicates to this point.

So if a Muslim is uncertain about a matter, and he intends to pray
al-Istikharah, then he should make a choice between the two matters and
then pray al-Istikharah, and then after al-Istikharah he executes that
matter, and if it was good then Allaah will make it easy for him and bless
him in that, and if it was not good for him, then Allaah turns it away from
him and makes easy for him that in which there is good by the permission of
Allaah.

[Taken from: Buggeeyat al-Mutattawa fee salat at-tattawa p.105]

Translated by Abbaas Abu Yahyaa