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Allah would never misguide a people after guid- those who believe in Our Signs and so are
ing them until He had made it clear to them how Muslims. (30:53)
to guard against evil. Allah has knowledge of all This is Allah’s creation. Show me then what
things. (9:115) those besides Him have created! The wrongdo-
That is Allah, your Lord, the Truth, and what is ers are clearly misguided. (31:11)
there after truth except misguidance? So how When Allah and His Messenger have decided
have you been distracted? (10:32) something it is not for any man or woman of the
Those who prefer the life of this world to the believers to have a choice about it. Anyone who
hereafter, and bar access to the way of Allah, disobeys Allah and His Messenger is clearly mis-
wanting to make it crooked; they are greatly mis- guided. (33:36)
guided. (14:3) Has he invented a lie against Allah or is he pos-
The metaphor of those who reject their Lord is sessed?’ No indeed! Those who do not believe in
that their actions are like ashes scattered by the hereafter are in punishment and deeply mis-
strong winds on a stormy day. They have no guided. (34:8)
power at all over anything they have earned. (A man from far side of the city said,) ‘Am I to
That is extreme misguidance. (14:18) take as gods instead of Him those whose inter-
We sent a Messenger among every people say- cession, if the All-Merciful desires harm for me,
ing: ‘Worship Allah and keep clear of all false will not help me at all and cannot save me? In
gods.’ Among them were some whom Allah that case I would clearly be misguided.’ (36:23-
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deserved. Travel about the earth and see the final They found their fathers misguided. (37:69)
fate of the deniers. (16:36) Is he whose breast is opened to Islam, and who is
How clear will be their hearing, how perfect therefore illuminated by his Lord...? Woe to those
their sight, on the Day they come to Us; whereas whose hearts are hardened against the remem-
today the wrongdoers are clearly misguided. brance of Allah! Such people are clearly mis-
(19:38) guided. (39:22)
He (Ibrahim) said, ‘You and your fathers are Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and
clearly misguided.’ (21:54) you reject it, who could be more misguided than
Instead of Allah, he calls on something which someone entrenched in hostility to it?’ (41:52)
cannot harm him or help him. That is extreme Those who do not believe in it try to hasten it.
misguidance. (22:12) But those who believe in it are afraid of it. They
When they see you they only make a mockery of know it is the truth. Those who doubt the Hour
you: ‘Is this the one Allah has sent as a are greatly misguided. (42:18)
Messenger? He might almost have misled us Can you make the deaf hear or guide the blind
from our gods had we not stuck to them stead- and those who are patently misguided? (43:40)
fastly!’ They will soon know, when they see the (A group of jinn said,) ‘Those who do not re-
punishment, whose way is the most misguided. spond to Allah’s caller cannot thwart Allah on
(25:41-42) earth and have no protectors apart from Him.
(They will say,) ‘By Allah, we were plainly mis- Such people are clearly misguided.’ (46:32)
guided when We equated you with the Lord of They said, ‘Are we to follow a human being, one
all the worlds.’ (26:97-98) of us? Then we would truly be misguided, quite
He Who has imposed the Qur’an upon you will insane!’ (54:24)
most certainly bring you back home again. Say: Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat
‘My Lord knows best who has brought true guid- from the tree of Zaqqum, (56:51-52)
ance and who is plainly misguided.’ (28:85) And if he is one of the misguided deniers, there is
You will not guide blind men from their misguid- hospitality of scalding water. (56:92-93)
ance. You will not make anyone hear except for It is He Who raised up among the unlettered peo-
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