Guidance

The term guidance is used in the Islamic-religious context for rendering the Arabicهدى / hudā is used, a word that is used in the Koran and in texts by Islamic theologians for the practical guidance of individual life and the community in accordance with the divine will, which the Prophet Muhammad claims to convey. The opposite term is 'to go astray or to be led' (Arabic ḍallala ).

The word hudā can be found in Sura 9 : 33:

“It is he who has sent his messenger with guidance [al-hudā] and true religion [dīn al-ḥaqq] to help her to victory over all that (otherwise) religion [ad-dīn kullihi ] gives"

But earlier revelations also convey God's “guidance”, as Sura 5 : 44.46 states:

“We sent down the Torah (to the children of Israel at that time), which contains guidance and light ... And we let Jesus, the son of Mary, follow after them (ie the men of God of the children of Israel) so that he confirm what was there of the Torah before him ... And we gave him the Gospel, which contains guidance and light ... as guidance and exhortation for those who fear God. "

There is a contradiction between the qadaritic doctrine, which grants people the freedom of will to accept God's “guidance” ( aḫaḏa ) or reject ( taraka ), and alternative conceptions based on predestination . In the political-religious context, in the idea of al-Wāqidī, among other things, guidance means “the management of the Muslim community in accordance with the will of the law made known by Allah through revelation”, “which is updated in the rule of the caliph as the 'imam of guidance' Done ".

literature

Tilman Nagel: Guidance and Caliphate. Bonn 1975.
Claude Gilliot : Guidance and promise of salvation in Islam. Perspectives on the Islamic understanding of salvation based on classical authors. In: Hansjörg Schmid, Andreas Renz, Jutta Sperber (eds.): Heil in Christianentum und Islam. Salvation or Guidance? Theological Forum Christianity - Islam , Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-926297-93-X , pp. 39–54.

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Occurrence of derivatives of the root ه-د-ي in the Koran.

Individual evidence

↑ See Tilman Nagel : Die Islamische Welt bis 1500. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1998, p. 157.
^ Translation by Rudi Paret : Der Koran , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 10. A. 2007, p. 135.
↑ trans. Paret, lc, 84.
^ Tilman Nagel: Mohammed: Life and Legend. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, p. 903. ISBN 978-3-486-58534-6

[1] See Tilman Nagel : Die Islamische Welt bis 1500. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1998, p. 157.

[2] Translation by Rudi Paret : Der Koran , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 10. A. 2007, p. 135.

[3] trans. Paret, lc, 84.

[4] Tilman Nagel: Mohammed: Life and Legend. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, p. 903. ISBN 978-3-486-58534-6