Al-Hadiy

The Guide

Exalted and Glorious

Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy among the mujrimun (disbelievers).  But Sufficient is your Lord as a Guide and Helper.  (25:31)

 

This name is an attribute of Allah of guidance to the right path.  This guidance pours forth as the guidance of Allah for all the creation, including minerals, plants, and animals; the guidance from Allah, which was preached by His messenger to their followers; the guidance from Allah, which may be defined as divine help; and the divine guidance by which the righteous believers shall attain their salvation in the Hereafter.

 

Allah imparts wisdom to His faithful servants and guides them to the right path, but sinners, liars, infidels and swindlers are debarred from the guidance.  He who recites this name will gain spiritual knowledge.

 

Al-hadiy is the Guide Who is Clear Evidence of the Path of the Truth. His words guide hearts to the knowledge of His essence, and selves to His obedience and the manifestation of His attributes. There is no guidance except that of Allah through the revelation of His book and His messenger, the prayers and peace of Allah be upon him.

 

Allah Allah Allah

From: The Meanings of the Names of Our Lord by Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal ar-Rifa’i Head of the Higher Sufi Council in Jerusalem and the Holy Land Teacher at the Dome of the Rock (al-Aqsa)

 

AL-HADI

 

Allah is the One who creates guidance, leading His servants to good, benefit, and the satisfaction of their needs.  His highest guidance is that which leads His best servants to knowledge of His essence.  He guides his other good servants to see His attributes manifest in His creation.  He guides every creature to that which is needed for its existence.

 

Allah says in Surah Ta Ha (50):

Our Lord is He who gives to each thing its nature then guides it (to knowledge to satisfy its needs).

 

The result of this guidance is faith.  The opposite of guidance is to be led astray, the result of which is infidelity.  Human beings are made like a pair of scales.  We have the potential to incline one way or the other.  Therefore, for us to turn either to the side of faith or to the side of infidelity there must be some weight placed on one side of the scale or the other.  Allah is the only one who creates guidance and misguidance.  He is the creator of the causes of faith, which delights the heart, and of faithlessness, which delights the ego.  He guides whomever He wishes and leads astray whomever he wishes.

 

Whomever Allah has guided well, none can lead astray.  Whomever Allah has misguided, none can lead to the straight path.  But Allah does not forcibly and without reason lead His servant astray.  He leads people astray only when we misuse our will and turn our potential towards infidelity.  Yet in human beings, faith is essential, fundamental.  Faithlessness is nonessential and accidental.

 

Faith is intrinsic to human beings.  Allah gathered the souls prior to creation in the realm of the spirits and asked,

Am I not your Lord?

And we all answered

Indeed! (Surah A’raf 172).

 

So our souls made a covenant with Allah before we were even born.  We may not remember the promise of our souls, but that does not invalidate the pact.  It is this covenant with Allah before our creation that is the reason for Allah’s guidance and bounty for each of us.  He has granted each soul a perfect body to live in, sustenance for the maintenance of that body, a mind to perceive things that will remind it of His existence and of our covenant with Him.  He has given the Books, the Messengers, prophets and saints and people of knowledge all to remind us, to teach us, to confirm the covenant.  All this is a part of Allah’s guidance.  As people wish it, will it, and abide with it, Allah’s guidance will ever increase.

 

The one who is well guided knows the truth, respects the truth, and accepts the truth.  Such people will prefer death to the application of untruth, which is injustice and tyranny.  Even if they had the interest, strength, and support to oppose the truth, they would not do it.  They tell only the truth, listen to the truth, live by the truth, and die for the truth.  Such are the well-guided ones.

 

‘Abd al-Hadi is the servant of Allah who has received the response to his prayer.

Guide us on the right path (Surah Fatihah 5)

 

He knows the secret of the beautiful names al-Hadi, and thus becomes an instrument for human salvation.  He has been charged with enforcing truth: that which Allah ordains, and that which Allah forbids.

 

Recitation of this Name 200 times each day may lead one to success.  If you are not sure of your purpose, this may lead you to the right choice.  If one writes this Name on a cup, puts rain water in it, recites ya Hadi 200 times upon it, and let’s one’s child who has difficulty in remembering things and is disobedient drink from it, it may ameliorate the condition.

 

From: The Name & the Named by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti