The Meaning of the Saying of Allah the Exalted: "Guide us to the straight path."
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The Shaykh : All right, [Al-Fatihah 1:6] Glory be to Allah, "Guide us to the straight path." Who can explain to me "Guide us"? Listen, my brothers, this explanation is for everyone and the benefit is for everyone.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : All right, well done, take a rest. This explanation is incomplete, yes. Who will complete it? Please, go ahead.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Leave it. They said, let it be, give us the words of the Lord of the Worlds.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Fine.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : My brother, up to now we have not asked this question. You are now saying "Guide us to the straight path." What are you asking Allah for? Are you asking Allah to teach you and to grant you success, or are you asking Allah only to teach you?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : That is, you are asking for both. Well done, take a rest. That is, be careful, my brother,[Al-Fatihah 1:6] you are asking Allah for guidance of success and guidance of instruction. That is, you are asking Allah to teach you and to grant you success in action. How many people have been guided, learned, and known the truth, but they were not given the guidance of success? Listen. How many people were guided, taught, and learned, but they were not given the guidance of success? Listen to the Qur'an: [Fussilat 41:17] "We guided them." What kind of guidance? Guidance of instruction and indication. But they preferred blindness over guidance. So if you say, my brother, if you say [Al-Fatihah 1:6] what do you want? Knowledge and action, all of it. That is, instruction, which is indication, and success, which is action. And so I say, and I specify this for the grammarians among you: it did not say "Guide us to the straight path," but it said "Guide us the straight path," to include guidance to it and guidance within it. So when you say [Al-Fatihah 1:6] you are asking Allah for beneficial knowledge and righteous action. The straight path is that in which there is no deviation. And what is the straight path? The path of whom?
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اهدنا الصراط المستقيمThe student: ... .
The Shaykh : All right, well done, take a rest. This explanation is incomplete, yes. Who will complete it? Please, go ahead.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Leave it. They said, let it be, give us the words of the Lord of the Worlds.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Fine.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : My brother, up to now we have not asked this question. You are now saying "Guide us to the straight path." What are you asking Allah for? Are you asking Allah to teach you and to grant you success, or are you asking Allah only to teach you?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : That is, you are asking for both. Well done, take a rest. That is, be careful, my brother,
