“When guidance comes to you from Me, whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray nor suffer. But whoever turns away from My remembrance will have a life of hardship, and We will raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection. He will say, ‘My Lord, why have You raised me blind when I used to see?’ He will say, ‘Thus Our signs came to you, but you forgot them; likewise, today you will be forgotten.’”

He Most High also said:

“Indeed, this Quran guides to what is most upright and gives glad tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a great reward, and that for those who do not believe in the Hereafter We have prepared a painful punishment.”

He Most High also said:

“And thus We have revealed to you a revelation by Our command. You did not know what the Book was, nor what faith was, but We have made it a light by which We guide whom We will of Our servants. And indeed, you guide to a straight path—the path of Allah, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. Surely, to Allah all matters return.”

He Most High also said:

“A Book We have sent down to you so that you may bring people out of darkness into light, by their Lord’s permission, to the path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy.”

He Most High also said:

“So those who believe in him, honour him, support him, and follow the light sent down with him—it is they who will prosper.”

Then, because these people imagined that this came to them from Allah without an intermediary, they came to regard themselves as above following the Messenger. One of them says:

“So-and-so receives his gift through Muhammad, whereas I receive mine from Allah without an intermediary.”

He also says:

“So-and-so takes his knowledge from the Book, whereas this shaykh takes his from Allah,” and similar things.

Saying, “He takes from Allah,” or “Allah has given me,” is ambiguous. If