Don’t Ignore These Four Stages of Guidance

In Islam, the most important thing is Allah’s guidance. To have a good and right life, you need it. Allah Almighty wants everyone to get better. Even if someone goes off track, or even if they are already doing well, Allah calls them back to Him. He does this in four steps, like Four Stages of Guidance. These steps are Allah’s way of inviting you (Dawah) to come back to Him and make your faith stronger. It’s really important to see these invitations and listen to them if you want to grow spiritually and avoid big problems.

The First Stage: Free Guidance

The initial stage of guidance from Allah Almighty is open to everyone. Allah gives free guidance by letting you hear, read, or remember His teachings. This can happen in many ways – like listening to the Friday sermon (Khutbah) at the mosque, or just seeing something online. For example, you might be wondering about something and then suddenly find a video that talks about it. This is like a sign from Allah, a soft push in the right direction. When these moments happen, it’s important to pay attention and not ignore these first little signs.

If you want Rizq from Allah Almighty, read Surah Waqiah.

The Second Stage: Tough Times

If you ignore the first little reminders, Allah Almighty tries a stronger way: teaching you through tough times. This means problems and hard challenges in life that help you learn. Just like good parents discipline their kids to teach them right from wrong, Allah uses hard times to guide us. These problems can be anything – like sickness in your family or losing things you care about. Think of these challenges as medicine, meant to make you stronger and bring you back to the right way. When these tough times come, it’s really important to accept them and learn from them.

The Third Stage: Situations You Can’t Ignore

The third way Allah guides you is through situations you just cannot avoid. These are things that happen that you have to deal with right away – like getting a court order or getting really sick. Allah Almighty calls these smaller punishments or hard times in this life. They are like a “smaller taste” of something bigger, meant to make you turn back to Allah. These unavoidable situations are there to make you think hard and say sorry to Allah. They push you to come back to Him before things get even worse.

The Fourth Stage:

The last step, and the worst one, is when Allah just lets go – that’s a disaster. It’s not about dying, getting sick, or losing money. Instead, Allah lets you do whatever you want, and doesn’t step in to stop you. This might sound good, but it’s actually really bad news. It leads to a world that’s ugly and doesn’t last, where everything, even the world itself, seems to be against you. And in the next life, you’ll have nothing left. This happens when you keep ignoring the first three steps and choose to move away from Allah.

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Conclusion

So, you really need to see and listen to Allah’s guidance in all four stages. It’s super important for your spiritual life. If you ignore these steps and do bad things instead, it can end really badly, with Allah letting go. But if you pay attention to the signs, learn from tough times, face those unavoidable situations, and stay away from the path of being let go, you can make your relationship with Allah strong. Then you can live a life that has purpose and is right.