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Jabir ibn AbdullahAllah's Messenger (peace be upon him) used to say in his prayer after
tashahhud: The most excellent words are the words of Allah and the most excellent guidance is the
guidance given by Muhammad (may Allah shower His blessings upon him).
GUIDES:
5:51 - Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust. 764
764 That is, look not to them for help and comfort. They are more likely to combine against you than to help you. And this
happened more than once in the lifetime of the Prophet, and in after-ages again and again. He who associates with
them and shares their counsels must be counted as of them. The trimmer loses whichever way the wheel of fortune
turns. (5.51)
6:125 - Those whom Allah (in His Plan) willeth to guide He openeth their breast to Islam;
947 God's Universal Plan is the Qadha wa Qadr, which is so much misunderstood. That Plan is unalterable, and that is His
Will. It means that in the spiritual world, there are laws of justice, mercy, grace, penalty, etc., which work as surely as
anything we know. If, then, a man refuses Faith, becomes a rebel, with each step he goes further and further down,
and his pace will be accelerated; he will scarcely be able to take spiritual breath, and his recovery, -in spite of God's
mercy which he has rejected,-will be as difficult as if he had to climb up to the skies. On the other hand, the godly will
find, with each step, the next step easier. Jesus expressed this truth paradoxically: "He that hath, to him shall be
given; but he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath": Mark, iv. 25. John (vi 65) make
Jesus say: "No man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." (6.125)
18:17 - . Such are among the Signs of Allah: he whom Allah guided; but he whom Allah leaves to
stray for him wilt thou find no protector to lead him to the Right Way. 23472348
16:16- And marks and signposts; and by the stars (men) guide themselves. 2040
2040 See last note. Let us exmaine the completed allegory. As there are beacons, landmarks and signs to show the way to
men on the earth, so in the spiritual world. And it is ultimately Allah Who provides them, and this is His crowning
Mercy. Like the mountains there are spiritual Landmarks in the missions of the Great Prophets: they should guide us,
or teach us, to guide ourselves, and not shake hither and thither like a ship without a rudder or people without Faith.
As rivers and streams mark out their channels, smoothing out levels so we have wholesome Laws and Customs
established, to help us in our lives. Then we have the examples of Great Men as further sign-posts: "Lives of great
men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime." In long-distance travel, the pole-star and the magnetic needle are
our guides; so in our long-distance journey to the other world, we have ultimately to look to heavenly guidance or its
reflection in Allah's Revelation. (16.16)
GUIDED:
7:30 - Some He hath guided: others have (by their choice) deserved the loss of their way: in that
they took the evil ones in preference to Allah for their friends and protectors and think that they
receive guidance. 1012
1012 Guidance is for all. But in some it takes effect: in others the doors are closed against it, because they have taken
Satan for their friend. If they have lost their way, they have richly deserved it; for they deliberately took their choice,
even though, in their self-righteousness, they may think that their sin is their virtue, and that their Evil is their Good.
(7.30)
19:76 - "And Allah doth advance in guidance those who seek guidance; and the things that endure.
Good Deeds are best in the sight of thy Lord as rewards and best in respect of (their) eventual
returns." 2521
2387 Other things are fleeting: but Good Deeds have a lasting value in the sight of Allah. They are best as (or for) rewards
in two ways: (1) they flow from us by the Grace of Allah, and are themselves rewards for our Faith: (2) they become
the foundation of our hopes for the highest rewards in the Hereafter. (18.46)
22:24 - For they have been guided (in this life) to the purest of speeches; they have been guided to
the Path of Him Who is worthy of (all) praise.
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