“This is a Book which We have revealed 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.”

Allah Most High also said:

“And He sent down with them the Scripture in truth to judge between people concerning their differences”—up to His words—“Then Allah, by His permission, guided those who believed to the truth concerning which they had differed. And Allah guides whom He wills to a straight path.”

Allah has thus guided the believers through him. Allah Most High also said:

“Fear Allah and believe in His Messenger; He will grant you a double share of His mercy, give you a light by which to walk, and forgive you. And Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

Allah has therefore guaranteed those who believe in him a light by which to walk. As Allah Most High said:

“Is one who was dead, whom We brought to life and gave a light by which to walk among people, like one who is in darkness from which he cannot emerge?”

Allah Most High also said:

“And thus We have revealed to you an inspiration by Our command. You did not know what the Book was, nor faith, but We made it a light by which We guide whom We will of Our servants. Indeed, you guide to a straight path.”

There are many such passages in the Quran and hadith.

No person of knowledge and faith has praised bewilderment. Rather, it has been praised by a group of heretics, such as Ibn ‘Arabī, the author of al-Fusūs, and other heretics like him. They themselves are bewildered, so they praised bewilderment and deemed it superior to uprightness. They claimed that they were the most perfect of creation, that the Seal of the Saints among them would surpass the Seal of the Prophets in knowledge of Allah, and that the prophets acquired knowledge of Allah from them; and they were, in