Troll too much?

Submitted by Michael (United Arab Emirates), Jan 10, 2022 at 09:40

First of all, we can pray for Hidayah to God anytime we want, after all, he is God indeed.
And I think you haven't really gotten into it since Allah misguides whomever he wants, true; but if you really look into the context of it (which you never do), this is misguidance explained:
MISGUIDANCE IS ALSO OF TWO TYPES
Having discussed the concept of Divine Guidance in some detail, it is now appropriate to examine the question of misguidance.

Misguidance is also of 2 types – initial misguidance and secondary misguidance.

What is initial misguidance? It is the exact opposite of initial guidance. When crushing your pure nature and you oppose your pure intellect and follow your base desires and fall into the trap of Satan and do not want to surrender to the truth that is present in your nature, it is by your own free will that you choose the path of initial misguidance.

Thus, the Quran always attributes this initial misguidance to those who are "non-believers", "polytheists", "hypocrites", "oppressors", etc. because such people are actually oppressing their very nature and intellect and willingly destroy their own future in the process. Who is the one doing this? Not Allah! They are misguiding themselves.

But you cannot deny the role of Allah behind the scenes in their resultant initial misguidance because their very exercising of the wrong choice is through the very power of choice that Almighty Allah gives them.

Through this understanding one can say that Allah is the actor "behind the scenes", but with the condition that whichever direction you take, you are doing so with your own freewill. Allah is not saying that we should become misguided.

SECONDARY MISGUIDANCE
So after freely choosing the path of misguidance, now this scenario results in a situation which results in being liable for punitive action which is the "misguidance" that Allah repeatedly refers to in the Quran that "He misguides whomsoever He pleases".

This misguidance is the result of your own actions.

This can be demonstrated in many ways from the Quran. Example in Surah Baqarah Verse 10 it says:

فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَهُمُ اللَّهُ مَرَضًا

"There is a disease in their hearts, so Allah added to their"

There was already a disease in their hearts – Allah did not place it in them, but Allah increased in their existing disease.

Or for example in Surah Saf Verse 5 we read:

فَلَمَّا زَاغُوا أَزَاغَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ ۚ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ

"Therefore, when they turned away from the path of Truth, Allah turned their hearts away [from the path]. And Allah guides not the people who are disobedient to Him"

Or we read in Surah Baqarah Verse 7:

خَتَمَ اللّهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهمْ وَعَلَى سَمْعِهِمْ وَعَلَى أَبْصَارِهِمْ غِشَاوَةٌ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عظِيمٌ

"Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and over their eyes is a covering, and there awaits them a great punishment."

This again gives the same meaning in that it is their own disbelief that now results in a seal over their hearts, etc.

So yeah, please look into the context before forwarding it.
And "troll too much"??
Bruh u were the person calling me "tablighee", "tablighee" this whole time, I tried to be as kind as possible lol.

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