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assalmualikum warahmatullahi wabarkatahu.
i am from india and now i am in cyprus.i have came to know about this website from one of the person from delhi and he is known to me.i have read about you and some 7 questions regarding sects in islam mostly on shia`s.

my question.
in all the replies you give you always mention this sentence "In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.

i was showing this to one of my shia friend and he was telling me that what you have written here is wrong cuz allah never astrays anybody.if he astray anybody then why we call firoun the bad person or any other guy who allah has written bad when he himself astrays him.he want to say that allah never astrays anybody and you the author is wrong here and i should not read your answers.

i agree with what you have written but i didnt had any answer to his question.i want you to reply with exact answer making reference of Qur`an and hadees

allah hafiz 

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Allah swt allows to be misguided

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Your Statement: i was showing this to one of my shia friend and he was telling me that what you have written here is wrong cuz allah never astrays anybody

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 37: If thou art anxious for their guidance yet Allah guides not such as He leaves to stray and there is none to help them.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 35 Surah Fatir verse 8: Is he then to whom the evil of his conduct is made alluring so that he looks upon it as good (equal to one who is rightly guided)? For Allah leaves to stray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. So let not thy soul go out in (vainly) sighing after them: for Allah knows well all that they do!

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 42 Surah Shuraa verse 44: For any whom Allah leaves astray there is no protector thereafter and thou wilt see the wrongdoers when in sight of the Penalty Say: "Is there any way (to effect) a return?

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah Israa verse 97: It is he whom Allah guides that is on true guidance; but he whom He leaves astray for such wilt thou find no protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather them together prone on their faces blind dumb and deaf: their abode will be Hell: every time it shows abatement We shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 45 Surah Jathiya verse 23: Then seest thou such a one as takes as his god his own vain desire? Allah has knowing (him as such), left him astray and sealed his hearing, and his heart (and understanding), and put a cover on his sight! Who then will guide him after Allah (has withdrawn Guidance)? Will ye not then receive admonition?

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 23: Allah has revealed (from time to time) the most beautiful Message in the form of a Book consistent with itself (Yet) repeating (its teaching in various aspects): the skins of those who fear their Lord tremble thereat; then their skins and their hearts do soften to the celebration of Allah's praises. Such is the guidance of Allah: He guides therewith whom He pleases but such as Allah leaves to stray can have none to guide.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 30 Surah Rome verse 29: Nay the wrong-doers (merely) follow their own lusts being devoid of knowledge. But who will guide those whom Allah leaves astray? To them there will be no helpers.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 13 Surah Raad verse 27: The Unbelievers say: "Why is not a Sign sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "Truly Allah leaveth to stray whom He Wills; but He guideth to Himself those who turn to Him in penitence

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verses 36-37: Is not Allah enough for His servant? But they try to frighten thee with other (gods) besides him! For such as Allah leaves to stray there can be no guide. And such as Allah doth guide there can be none to lead astray. Is not Allah Exalted in Power (able to enforce His Will), Lord of Retribution?

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 11 Surah Hud verses 33-34: He said: "Truly Allah will bring it on you if He wills and then ye will not be able to frustrate it! "Of no profit will be my counsel to you much as I desire to give you (good) counsel if it be that Allah willeth to leave you astray: He is your Lord! and to Him will ye return!"

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 74 Surah Mudhatthir verse 31: And We have set none but Angels as guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers in order that the people of the Book may arrive at certainty and the Believers may increase in Faith and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers and that those in whose hearts is a disease, and the unbelievers may say "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth and guide whom He pleaseth; and none can know the forces of the Lord except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind.

Your Question: cuz allah never astrays anybody.if he astray anybody then why we call firoun the bad person or any other guy who allah has written bad when he himself astrays him.he want to say that allah never astrays anybody and you the author is wrong here and i should not read your answers.
i agree with what you have written but i didnt had any answer to his question.i want you to reply with exact answer making reference of Qur`an and hadees

Ref: Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.

Beloved Brother in Islam, it is indeed true that Allah Subhanah never ever ‘astrays’ or ‘misguides’ anyone; for the Lord Guides only towards the Truth!

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 90 Surah Balad verses 4-9:

4 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle.

5 Thinketh he that none hath power over him?

6 He may say (boastfully): "Wealth have I squandered in abundance!"

7 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?

8 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?

9 And a tongue and a pair of lips?

10 And shown him the two ways?

And the Truth is that Allah has shown mankind the two ways: one is of guidance to Allah’s Way, and every other way is the way of Shaitaan! He has clearly shown us the two ways, and guided mankind by appointing Messengers and sending the Book of Guidance. And Allah has given humans beings the intelligence and the free will to choose between the Right and the Wrong, without any force or pressure! That is precisely the test Allah has involved mankind in for a period of one short transitory life on this earth.

Allah says in the Holy Quran in Chapter 67 Surah Al Mulk verse 2: He (Allah) created death and life that He may test you, to see which of you is the best in deeds.

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verse 29: Proclaim, “This (Quran) is the Truth from your Lord: now whosoever wills may accept it, and whosoever wills may reject it.”

Thus, it is not as if Allah Subhanah pulls out 5,000 names a day and declares that these 5,000 must be guided, whether they like it or not!; or pulls out 5,000 names and declares that they must not be guided!

Allah has given this power of reasoning, intelligence and free will only to human beings and involved them in a test in this transitory life, to see who amongst them control their ‘nafs’ (soul) and submits his will, out of his own choice and free will, to the Will of Allah Subhanah. Whoever chooses, with his own free will, reasoning and intelligence the Right Path of Allah, he is guided aright. Whoever chooses, with his own free will, any other way, then he has chosen the path of Shaitaan, and has thus gone astray!

Thus whoever accepts the guidance sent by Allah, and chooses with his own free will to follow the path shown by the appointed Messenger of Allah(saws), Allah is pleased with this person and allows him to follow that Path.

And whoever rejects the guidance sent by Allah, and independently makes or follows any other path than that shown by the Messenger of Allah (saws), Allah is dis-pleased with this person, but still allows him to follow his chosen path! And that is because Allah has put mankind through a test in this worldly life!

Whatever path man chooses of his own free will, Allah will allow him to take that path and complete his test; and only in the Hereafter the results of success or failure will be declared.

Thus it is not that Allah Subhanah misguides or strays anyone, but it the condition and principle of the test Decreed by the Lord All-Just that He allows those who wish to be guided to be guided aright, and He allows or leaves those who wish to stray to be left astray for the period of the test.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 14 Surah Ibraheem verse 27: Allah will establish in strength those who believe with the Word that stands firm in this world and in the Hereafter; but Allah will leave to stray those who do wrong: Allah doeth what He willeth.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 26: Allah disdains not to use the similitude of things lowest as well as highest. Those who believe know that it is Truth from their Lord; but those who reject Faith say: "What means Allah by this similitude?" By it He causes many to stray and many He leads into the right path but He causes not to stray except those who forsake (the Path).

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 40 Surah Mumin verses 32-35:

32 "And O my People! I fear for you a Day when there will be mutual calling (and wailing)

33 A day when ye shall turn your backs and flee: no defender shall ye have from Allah: any whom Allah leaves to stray there is none to guide...

34 And to you there came Joseph in times gone by with Clear Signs but ye ceased not to doubt of the (mission) for which he had come: at length when he died ye said: `No Messenger will Allah send after him.' Thus doth Allah leave to stray such as transgress, and live in doubt.

35 "(Such) as dispute about the Signs of Allah without any authority that hath reached them. Grievous and odious (is such conduct) in the sight of Allah and of the Believers. Thus doth Allah seal up every heart of arrogant and obstinate transgressors."

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan