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My dear brothers and sisters there is something that comes up often when people talk

about looking for Hidayah and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ad only talks about people

looking for guidance. It's made very very clear throughout the Quran that you

have to take the initiative to look for guidance and that guidance will not come

to you if you are unwilling and undeserving and that's why we have

Thalab al-Hidayah we have the request for guidance constantly in our prayers

every single time we read Surat Al-Fatiha, Ibn Al-Sirat al-Mustafiq.

Asking Allah Subhanat al-Fatiha to guide us to the straight path and in the

process of guiding us to it make it more identifiable to us and then allow

us to be upon it and then allow us to be firm upon it and then allow us to

follow Surat Al-Ladina and I'm tired of him the path of those who have earned

Allah Subhanat al-Tata's favor who are those people they are the prophets the

righteous ones the companions so Allah allows us to follow in their footsteps

and to grant us sincerity on that path and to not let us deviate from that path

and so this seeking of guidance is a noble pursuit that requires a certain type

of willingness and dedication on our part and Subhanallah you often find that

when people say they are lost I'm lost I don't know how to find myself

they're often not willing to put the striving in order to achieve that guidance

and I want to begin this actually with a paraphrase story it's actually a famous

story that I don't have time to go into detail with but it's the story of

Abdullah al-Salam radiallahu ta'ala anhu who is the chief rabbi of Al-Madinah

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