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Name Number Ninety Nine: Ar -Rasheed


From the root ra-shin-dal (ر ش د), which has the following classical Arabic connotations: to be directed aright, to be caused to follow the right course, to be directed to take the right way, to be caused to hold a right belief, to adopt the right path.
The name of Allah Al-Rasheed, The Rightly Guided, is similar to a name we've already discussed Al-Hadi, meaning The Guide. However, being called rightly-guided negates all negative connotations. He is infallible in His direction and to be misguided is inconceivable. Similar in meaning to the name al-Hakeem, (The Wise). Al-Ghazali adds about al-Rasheed, "acting without any indication of an advisor or the directions of a director or the guidance of a guide." His very essence is to be rightly-guided.

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