Guidance is a great mercy and ni’mah from Allah the Almighty. It is very important for every
Muslim to know that the most valuable thing that we have in our life is this guidance. The best of guidance is that guidance brought from Allah by our beloved Prophet Mohammed may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him. And the best of speeches is the honoured word of Allah.
Whomever Allah has guided cannot be misguided and whomever has been left astray cannot receive guidance from any other means. We pray that Allah guide us to the right path, the path of those upon whom is His favour and not the path of those who have been faced with the wrath of Allah. Aameen, aameen, aameen.
Allah has guided us to the right path or iman and we have to be grateful to Him. This guidance in the form
of the Qur’an was revealed to us by Allah through His Messenger, Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. So we should stick to its guidance and follow its teachings as a guide for us in
everything we do in our lives. Our efforts alone cannot guide us. Even though we have our own
will and choice, they are not independent. They are under Allah’s will and choice and belong to
Him. We have aql (mind) but again it is created by Allah. We also have fitrah or the natural
deposition but it is also created by Allah and belongs to Him. All these things are created by
Allah. Allah showed us the right way to follow and be guided and warn us against Shaitan who is our greatest enemy and cause of our wrongdoings and misguidance. Allah also showed us how to deal with our own desires which He created in us. He told us that we should not be misled by
these desires. We have to use them in the right ways. We should know that the main aim of Shaitan is to mislead and misguide the servants of Allah by any means possible. He (Shaitan) is looking for his companions tirelessly day in day out by trying to make what is forbidden, appealing to man.
When it comes to the issue of misguidance, we must know that it is not from the choice of Allah
because He does not want us to be misguided. It is from our own will and choice.
When someone is misguided it is his or her own attitude and behavior and it is he or she who chooses it to be like that. For example, takabur (arrogance) is one source of misguidance but it is a person’s character and attitude which affect the heart and cause misguidance. So when a person chooses to be misguided he or she will be so by his or her own will and not by Allah’s
misguidance. Allah’s misguidance comes later as punishment for the person who chooses to be misguided.
I end again by the prayer that Allah guide us to the right path, aameen.
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