SECOND REMINDER. Tuesday. SERVANTS EXTREME NEED FOR GUIDANCE CONTINUES. Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem. As servants of ALLAH, we are in need of guidance at every moment and in every breath, in everything that happens to us and passes us by, for we are in the midst of many matters from which we cannot separate ourselves, among the following: (i) Matters in which we found ourselves because of ignorance, rather than guidance, so we are in need of seeking guidance to the truth with respect to these matters. (ii) Matters in which we knows the guidance, but did not act upon it in the proper manner, so we are in need of repenting from them. (iii) There are matters concerning which we did not know the aspect of guidance in them, neither in terms of knowledge nor action. Thus guidance to both knowledge and acquaintance with them, the desire for them and acting upon them has passed us by. (iv) There are matters to which we have been guided but we are in need of further guidance with respect to them since guidance to the path is one thing, but guidance upon the path is something else. We have been guided as Muslims but within Islam some are deviated due to blind following without learning and seeking guidance from authentic source. Example; The Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, indeed the Children of Israa'eel split up into seventy-two sects and my Ummah will split up into seventy-three, all of them are in the Fire except one. It was said, What is the one? He said, That which I and my Companions are upon. Reported by at-Tirmidhee (no. 2792), al-Haakim (1/128-129), al-Laalikaa'ee (no. 147) and others from 'Abdullaah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'Aas. To be continued in shaa Allah. May ALLAH keep guiding us all from any deviation. Aameen.