Straight Path
- philhoraia
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Sep 8, 2023
The Quran speaks of "the straight path", but also of "a straight path".
S 1:6 Guide us to the straight path.
S 2:142 The fools of the people will say: What has turned them from their qiblah which they used to be on? Say: Lah’s is the rising place and the setting place. He guides whom he wills to a straight path.
S 2:213 People were one nation then Allah raised the prophets as bearers of good news and as warners and sent down with them the book with the truth to judge between people in what they had differed concerning. And none differed in it except those who had been given it after what the proofs had come to them out of wrong between them. And Allah guided those who had believed in what they had differed in of the truth with his permission. And Allah guides whom he wills to a straight path.
S 3:51 Allah is my lord and your lord so worship him. This is a straight path.
S 3:101 And how could you disbelieve when Allah’s verses are read to you and his messenger is among you? And he who clings to Allah has been guided to a straight path.
S 4:68 And we would have guided them to a straight path.
S 4:175 And as for those who have believed in Allah and have fasted to him, he will admit to mercy from him and favour and guide them to him on a straight path.
S 5:16 Allah guides therewith those who have followed his pleasure to the ways of peace and brings them out of the darknesses into the light with his permission and guides them to a straight path.
S 6:39 And those who have called our verses a lie are deaf and dumb, in the darknesses. He whom Allah wills, he misguides him and he whom he wills, he puts him on a straight path.
S 6:87 And of their fathers and their offsprings and their brothers--and we chose them and guided them to a straight path.
S 6:126 And this is a path of your lord, straight. We have detailed the verses for people who remember.
S 6:153 And that this is my path, straight, so follow it. And do not follow the ways, then they scatter you from his way. That has he advised you with; perhaps you will fear.
S 6:161 Say: I, my lord has guided me to a straight path, a worthy religion, the cult of Ibrahim, a Hanif. And he was not of the mushrikun.
S 7:16 He said: So because you have seduced me I will sit for them on your straight path.
S 10:25 And Allah calls to the house of peace and guides whom he wills to a straight path.
S 11:56 I have put my trust in Allah, my lord and your lord. There is no beast but he takes it by its forelock. My lord is on a straight path.
Allah's on a straight path.
S 15:41 He said: This is a straight path upon me.
Literally, He said: This is a path upon me, straight.
S 16:76 And Allah has coined a similitude of two men. One of them dumb who has no power over anything and he is a fatigue on his mawla. Wherever he sends him he does not bring good. Are equal he and and he who commands with justice and he is on a straight path?
S 16:121 Grateful for his graces. He chose him and guided him to a straight path.
Who was grateful, Ibrahim or Allah? One of Allah's 'names' is The Grateful.
S 19:36 And Allah is my lord and your lord, so worship him. This is a straight path.
S 22:54 And that those who have been given knowledge may know that it is the truth from your lord and believe in it and that their hearts may be humble to it. And Allah is guide of those who have believed to a straight path.
S 23:73 And you call them to a straight path.
S 24:46 We have sent down clarifying verses. And Allah guides whom he wills to a straight path.
S 36:4 On a straight path.
The author is on a straight path.
S 36:61 And: Worship me? This is a straight path.
Could there be a straight path that involves the worship of some other deity?
S 37:118 And we guided them to the straight path.
S 42:52 And thus have we inspired you with a spirit from our command. You did not know what the book was nor faith. But we made it a light. We guide therewith whom we will of our slaves. And you guide to a straight path,
The book, presumably the Quran, was made a light. Some slaves are not guided with it.
S 43:43 So grab that which you have been inspired with. You are on a straight path.
S 43:61 And he is knowledge for the Hour. So do not doubt about it and follow me. This is a straight path.
Regarding Isa as the knowledge for the Hour, see: Jesus Christ: Islam’s Greatest Prophet and Messenger
S 43:64 Allah, he is my lord and your lord so worship him. This is a straight path.
S 48:2 That Allah may forgive you for what has preceded of your sin and what has followed and complete his grace upon you and guide you to a straight path
S 48:20 Allah has promised you many spoils that you take and has hastened this for you and has curbed the hands of the people from you and that it may be a sign for the believers and that he may guide you to a straight path.
Up to this point Allah hasn't guided Muslims to a straight path, 111 surahs in?
S 67:22 So is he who walks unresting on his face more guided or he who walks straight on a straight path?
Who walks on his face?
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