He then recites three verses:

“O you who believe, fear Allah as He should be feared, and do not die except as Muslims.” [Al ‘Imran]

“O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul and created from it its mate, and from the two spread many men and women. And fear Allah, in whose name you ask one another, and honour the ties of kinship. Surely Allah is ever Watchful over you.” [Al-Nisa’]

“O you who believe, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. He will set right your deeds for you and forgive you your sins. Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great triumph.” [Al-Ahzab]

This is the Sermon of Need which the Prophet ﷺ would teach his Companions—that is, the sermon recited before stating one’s need.

Many brothers say, “Whomever Allah guides is rightly guided, and whomever He leads astray, you will never find for him a guiding protector,” thus substituting the wording of the verse for that of this hadith. What is more fitting for a person, and more complete in proper conduct, is to adhere to the wording transmitted in the hadith. For replacing a Prophetic expression with another wording resembles an objection to the Messenger ﷺ, as though one were saying, “Why did you not say what occurs in the verse?”

Few people are attentive to this matter. What the sunnah has transmitted should be said exactly as the sunnah transmitted it; the words of the Messenger ﷺ should never be replaced with anything else, even with words from the Quran. For we say to him: “Do you know the Quran better than the Messenger ﷺ? Are you greater than the Messenger ﷺ in your reverence for Allah and His Book?” Say as the Messenger ﷺ said: “Whomever Allah guides, none can lead astray; and whomever He leads astray, none can guide.” As for the wording, “Whomever He leads astray, you will never find for him a guiding protector,” it is not to be said in this context.

Then the guardian is told, “Give the man in marriage,” and he says, “I give you my daughter, so-and-so, in marriage,”