Considering the excellence and importance of this supplication, we would like to elucidate some of its prominent features here, for it is almost impossible to cover all of them fully and adequately.
---The most striking feature of this supplication is that through it, the human being seeks and prays for what is undoubtedly the most noble and excellent objective in life. There is nothing better or superior to it. In it, a servant prays to Allah for guidance to attain His closeness and to show him the straight path to achieve his goal.
As a supplication, it gives expression to the human being’s sincerest wish and need for guidance, free from even the slightest trace of any selfishness or insincerity.
---Secondly, it is a supplication by the human being for help to fulfil the very purpose for which he has been created and placed on earth: to worship and to serve his Sustainer.
---Thirdly, it is a supplication to Allah for guidance and help in a sphere where, as mentioned above, human reason is completely helpless, and where Allah alone can help, guide, and grant the human being the strength to follow the straight path successfully. Thus when a servant supplicates to Allah for guidance, he asks Him for something that is truly worth asking and supplicating for and from none but Him alone, for He alone can grant it.
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