Merciful Guidance Ta-Ha (Ta Ha) Chapter 20: Verses 123, 124 (partial) ... If there comes unto you guidance (huda) from Me, then whoso follows My guidance shall never go astray nor fall into misery. But whoso turns away from My remembrance (dhikr), His shall be a strait life, and We shall raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection. It is one of the most characteristic features of Quranic thought that it conceives of religion in terms of the guidance of God. In this conception, the religion in the sense of islam-iman is nothing other than ihtida (verb. ihtada) which literally means to be rightly guided or acceptance of guidance. This is but a corollary of the basic fact that, in the Quran, Revelation is regarded as essentially a merciful guidance (huda) for those who are apt to believe. Indeed, even the casual reader of the Quran would not fail to notice that through the whole of it there runs the fundamental thought that God guides whom He will. God is absolutely fair in giving guidance graciously to all men, but some people accept it while others reject it of their own free will. It is interesting to note that in the latter half of the passage the word huda guidance is replaced by dhikr remembrance, which is just one of the usual words in the Quran denoting Revelation in the sense of what serves to recall God to ones mind. So viewed from the human standpoint, belief is neither more nor less than accepting the guidance and to choose the right path, while kufr means turning away from the guidance so as to go astray from the right path.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:54:30 +0000
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