How Does Quran Offer Guidance?
The guidance that the Quran provides is not for a specific area of man’s life. This means that the Quran does not abandon a field that mankind needs.
The Quran offers guidelines all the time; from the spiritual perfection to social issues, administration, justice, ethics, confrontation with enemies, or resolving enmities: “Virtue and evil are not equal. If you replace evil habits by virtuous ones, you will certainly find that your enemies will become your intimate friends.” (Surah Fussilat, verse 34).
Talking about the family it says: “They pray, ‘Lord, let our spouses and children be the delight of our eyes and ourselves examples for the pious ones’” (Surah al-Furqan, verse 74) or “And marry such of you as are solitary and the pious of your slaves and maid-servants. If they be poor, Allah will enrich them of His bounty” (Surah an-Nur, verse 32). The Quran also points to the issue of spiritual peace as a fundamental need of the man, saying: “then Allah sent down His peace of reassurance upon His messenger and upon the believers” (Surah Al-Fath, verse 26).
The divine text also refers to other issues as well such as dealing with internal disturbances that one faces in life, recommending people to seek science and get acquainted with nature, advising the man to move on the path of knowledge and discovering truths, and offering recommendations on how to behave with others: “Do not scornfully turn your face away from people. Do not walk around puffed-up with pride; God does not love arrogant and boastful people.” (Surah Luqman, verse 18)
This shows that the Quran provides guidance for any aspect of one’s life and that lessons lie in the book for any stage and part of human beings.
Those who think that the Quran does not talk about issues related to life, politics, economics, and government are negligent. A major part of the Quran refers to these social aspects of life.
This article is a summary of a speech made by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a Quranic circle. Born in 1939, Ayatollah Khamenei is a Shia Marja and the leader of the Islamic Revolution. He has written several works on Islamic sciences.
