Allah.” Allah Most High said when He sent Adam down:

“If guidance comes to you from Me, then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray nor suffer misery. (123) But whoever turns away from My remembrance will have a life of hardship, and We will raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection. (124)” [Tā Hā: 123–124]

He thus declared that whoever follows His guidance, which has come from Him, will neither go astray nor suffer misery. As He said:

“Alif Lām Mīm. (1) This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guide for those mindful of Allah, (2) who believe in the unseen, establish prayer, and spend from what We have provided for them, (3) and who believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter. (4) Those are upon guidance from their Lord, and it is they who are successful. (5)” [al-Baqarah: 1–5]

Guidance is the opposite of going astray, and success is the opposite of misery. Some of the early generations explained “the successful” as those who attain what they seek and escape what they flee.

This is why we have been commanded to say in every prayer:

“Guide us to the path