The Greatest Need of Mankind ~ Seeking Guidance from Almighty. But Why???

A’oodhu-Billahi-Minashaitanir-Rajeem
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem

‎اهدِنَــــا الصِّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ
Ihdinas siratal mustaqeem (Guide us to the Straight Path) [Al-Fatiha 1:6]

Allāhummahdini wa saddidni
اللهُمَّ اهْدِنِي وَسَدِّدْنِي
[O Allāh, guide me and direct me.]
Allāhumma innee as’alukal-hudaa was-sadaada
اللَّهمَّ إنِّي أسْألُكَ الهُدَى والسَّدَادَ
[O Allāh, I ask You for guidance and direction(uprightness).]
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2725, Grade: Sahih; Riyad-us-Saaliheen.

Indeed, asking for guidance is the greatest among all his needs and the most crucial of all his requests.
For this reason, Allāh enacted that His slaves beseech Him for His guidance several times on a daily basis when he is in his best state, during the five obligatory prayers i.e. salāh because all this manifests the dire need of the slave to attain this guidance and how significantly important it is to him.

♦️ The ‘abd(slave) of Allāh should reflect deeply upon how the aayah, “Guide us to the Straight Path” – Expresses his perpetual needs through the various meanings it comprises namely:
🔹 1) Knowing the truth
🔹 2) The way to it
🔹 3) Acting upon it
🔹 4) Holding fast to it, and
🔹 5) Calling for it and forbearing harm caused to you by those whom you call
♦️ Yet being in a state of perfect guidance cannot be realised unless the ‘abd (of Allāh) is able to receive complete guidance.
♦️ Thus, whenever he falls short in some aspects pertaining to his ability to assimilate guidance, the state of his enlightenment will be affected accordingly.
♦️ This is because the ‘abd (of Allāh) is in need of this guidance, both inwardly and outwardly, and in all his affairs.

💎 Divisions of guidance that the ‘abd is in need of:
🔹 1) Guidance to repent from all his wrongdoings, from deviated knowledge and insincere intentions. Hence, as the slave
is in constant need to repent, he is always in need of this type of guidance.
🔹 2) Guidance to be acquainted with the finer details of the beliefs and actions that he has, in a broad sense, already been guided to.
🔹 3) Guidance to matters he requires in order to further perfect and increase his guidance.
🔹 4) To have guidance in matters that he needs in the future, just as he needed in the past.
🔹 5) Guidance to have sound beliefs in matters in which he lacks any belief.
🔹 6) Guidance to have sound beliefs in matters he has based upon wrong and deviated beliefs. This form of guidance abrogates his deviated beliefs and replaces them with the right and sound ones.
🔹 7) Guidance to have the will and desire in matters that he possesses the capability to do and that he ought to do, but for which he does not yet have the desire to carry out.
🔹 8) Guidance to have the desire as well as the capability to do things that he ought to but that he neither desires nor is capable of.
🔹 9) Guidance to maintain and preserve the sound beliefs, knowledge and good deeds that he already possesses.

‎صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّينَ
Siraatal-lazeena an’amta ‘alaihim ghayril-maghdoobi ‘alaihim wa lad-daaalleen (The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked Your anger or of those who are astray.) [Al-Fatiha 1:7]

👆Additionally, Allāh clarifies that the path of those who are truly guided is different from the path of those who earned His anger and those who are astray.
💎 From that perspective, mankind is divided into three types with respect to guidance:
🔹 1) Those whom Allāh favored with His guidance and preserved it for them. However, the individual share of the ones in this category depends on how much guidance each one of them has received.
🔹 2) Those who are astray because they have neither received guidance nor were prepared for it.
🔹 3) Those with whom Allāh is Angry because they recognised the truth but did not follow it.
♦️ The ones who are astray deviate from the truth because (in their quest for the truth) they become lost and bewildered and thus unable to find the right path, leading them to totally sever themselves from the truth and the knowledge leading to it.
♦️ As for those who earned Allāh’s Wrath, they are the ones who despite knowing the truth still deviated from it, and as a consequence never benefited from their knowledge because they refrained from acting upon the truth they knew.
♦️ On the other hand, those whom Allāh favoured with guidance stand apart by virtue of their guidance, knowledge, beliefs and deeds. And, Allāh is the Facilitator of Success and Guide to the truth.

❤️💎 The Salāh is tranquility for worshippers and Allāh’s gift to the believers.
💎 It is imperative for us to know that salāh is, without any doubt:
♦️ the domain of tranquility for devotees(muhibbīn),
♦️ the enjoyment of the souls of monotheists(muwahidīn),
♦️ the garden of the worshippers(ābidīn),
♦️ the essence of enjoyment of the humble ones(khāshi’īn),
♦️ the test of the sincere ones(sādiqīn), and
♦️ the scale measuring the mettle of those embarking the right path(salikīn).
💎 It is truly a divine Mercy that Allāh has gifted to His believing servants that He has Guided them to, and acquainted them with.
💎 He delegated His truthful and honest Messenger Prophet Muhammad(sallallahu alaihi wasallam), to deliver this gift to His believing servants in order that they may attain a noble status with Him.
💎Through it’s means He dignifies, honours and showers them with His Mercy, and allows them to win His nearness.
💎 He bestows upon His believing servants all this although He is in no need of them, He just wants to lavish them with this gracious gift to show His Favour upon them and bring their hearts and bodies altogether into His servitude.

📚 Inner DIMENSIONS of the PRAYER by Imam ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah ~ Comparison of Differing Experience between Performing Salah and Listening (to Music) being a translation of his work ‘Asrar al-Salah wa’l-Farq wa’l-Mawazanah bayna
dawq al-Salah wa’l Sama

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One who guides to something good has a reward similar to that of its doer. [Sahih Muslim 4665]

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