مَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِى ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ
mai yahdil laahu fa huwal muhtadee wa mai yudlil fa ulaaa'ika humul khaasiroon
Whoever Allah guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray - it is those who are the losers.

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He whom God guides he is guided and he whom He sends astray — truly they are the losers.

Related Hadiths

Sahih Muslim #1899Jabir reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), while delivering the sermon' to the people, praised Allah, and lauded Him for what He deserves, and would then say:Sahih
He whom Allah guides aright, there is none to mislead him, and he who is led astray, there is none to guide him (aright), and the best of the talk is embodied in the Book of Allah. And the rest of the hadith is the same.
Sahih Muslim #6069This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Hayyan but with this addition:Sahih
" The Book of Allah contains right guidance, the light, and whoever adheres to it and holds it fast, he is upon right guidance and whosoever deviates from it goes astray.
Sunan Abu Dawud #3644Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying:Da'if
If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge, Allah will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise; and he who is made slow by his actions will not be speeded by his genealogy.
Jami` at-Tirmidhi #2744Narrated Abu Hurairah:Sahih
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Whoever calls to guidance, then he receives the reward similar to the reward of whoever follows him, without that diminishing anything from their rewards. And whoever calls to misguidance, then he receives of sin similar to the sins of those who followed him, without that diminishing anything from their sins."
Sunan Abu Dawud #4611Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:Hasan Sahih
If anyone summons other to follow right guidance, his reward will be equivalent to that of the people who follow him, without their rewards being diminished in any respect on that account; and if anyone summons others to follow error the sin of which sins being diminished in any respect on that account.

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