'Guide us to the straight path.' This is a teaching for the people of His kindness and a reminder of the place of the conduct that cannot be reached without it. Guidance, al-Harali said, is the return of the lost to what they have strayed from. The straight path is the dangerous road of conduct. The verse is from the words of Allah, glorified and exalted is He, upon the tongue of the elite of His creation. It has come complete with the word 'Al-' because it is the path that does not lead astray those who are guided by it due to its encompassing nature and the comprehensiveness of its flow, in accordance with the comprehensiveness of the meaning of praise in all existence. It is that which opinions have scattered and sects have diverged by leaning towards one of its sides. It is that which is set as an example, and in accordance with its meaning, between the two sides of Hell on the Day of Judgment for the sight to witness. Surrounding it are like those opinions hooks and snares. The conditions of the people flow with it in the Hereafter according to their course with its realities, the beginning of which is on the Day of Action. This complete straight path is the encompassing one that is arranged upon the misguidance that is expressed by the state of one who has no direction. It is a praiseworthy misguidance because it is based on the soundness of the innate disposition. For the one who has no knowledge of a direction, his right is to refrain from every direction, and it is a misguidance that necessitates an encompassing guidance from it. 'And He found you lost and guided [you]' [Al-Duha: 7]. As for the one who is guided to a direction and then strays from its reference, it is a blameworthy misguidance because it is misguidance after guidance, and it occurs due to a deviation in the nature.