Who is your  مُنَادِيًا : the caller whose word you have accepted? Name him!
 



The Men of Wisdom addressing Allah the Exalted submit:



رَّبَّنَا إِنَّنَا سَمِعْنَا مُنَادِيًا يُنَادِي لِلْإِيمَانِ أَنْ آمِنُواْ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَآمَنَّا

Our Sustainer Lord; Indeed we have listened the caller. He calls for the Faith and directs: "you people believe in your Sustainer Lord". Responding to his call we have heartily accepted-believed. [Ref 3:193]
 

Who is he whom men of wisdom have listened and heartily accepted the direction? If we are one of men of wisdom, then we must know whom we listened and are responding by heartily believing. Can you name him?

If a person does not know the names of billions of people, it is okay. But if you recognize not and knows who is مُنَادِيًا in response to whom you are doing whatever you are doing, you are doing everything mindlessly.

Those who do not know their مُنَادِيًا they are wanderers and self deceived.

وَمَن لَّا يُجِبْ دَاعِيَ اللَّهِ

Take note; if someone not responds to the Caller of Allah the Exalted;-----------

 أُوْلَئِكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ

 

يَا قَوْمَنَا أَجِيبُوا دَاعِيَ اللَّهِ وَآمِنُوا بِهِ يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُجِرْكُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

 فَلَيْسَ بِمُعْجِزٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَيْسَ لَهُ مِن دُونِهِ أَولِيَاءَ

46:31-32

 

This perception is perhaps because of patently incorrect translations. The text is argumentative and educative. He is teaching the people to ponder on simple realities. He is doing it as the Messenger. Paradise is only for those who believe in Allah the Exalted and the Messengers. Salvation is not on self acquired knowledge or understanding. The signs all around us are facilitators and pointers-providence for accepting the word of the Messengers.

in the contexte (from 3:183) of the verse 3:193 مُنَادِيًا is the messenger, people who were present could "hear" the caller, but once the messenger is dead or people living abroad at that time, the message is still alive within The Book.
 

Where do we find God's Guidance?

In the stars, planets, plant kingdom, animal kingdom, and whatever is in our perception? All these can introduce to us Allah the Exalted. But this is not His Guidance. Where is the God's Guidance?

 

Seperating Guide and Guidance, one is bound to go astray. There is a very delicate line between inspiration and hallucination and whispers of Shaitaan.
Allah the Exalted guides the humanity through the Book sent to the Messenger and passed on the people at large in exact words of Allah. He the Exalted does not waste time for those who desire not the guidance through the Book and His Messengers.

قُلْ إِنَّ هُدَى اللّهِ هُوَ الْهُدَى
Know the fact that the nation of Jews as well the Christians will never make their selves appreciatively pleased with you, the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] until and unless hypothetically speaking you might adopt literally following their [self made] Creed.
You the Messenger pronounce for everyone; "The Guidance of Allah the Exalted is in fact that-Qur'aan who is the Guide. [The Book of Allah-Qur'aan-explained conversely in 3:73]].
Therefore be mindful that, supposedly you purposely acted upon their conjectures-desires-wishes, after the One-Qur'aan who has reached you bringing the Knowledge,
thereby, assuredly there will certainly be neither [including myself] protecting guardian, nor a helper permitted by Allah the Exalted to act for you [since you would have become amongst the distorter unjust-2:145]". [2:120]

قُلْ إِنَّ الْهُدَى هُدَى اللّهِ
You the Messenger [Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] pronounce; "The fact remains that AlHuda: the Guide: Qur'aan is the guidance of Allah the Exalted." [ref 3:73]

اللَّهُ نَزَّلَ أَحْسَنَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابًا مُّتَشَابِهًا مَّثَانِيَ تَقْشَعِرُّ مِنْهُ جُلُودُ الَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ ثُمَّ تَلِينُ جُلُودُهُمْ وَقُلُوبُهُمْ إِلَى ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ ذَلِكَ هُدَى اللَّهِ يَهْدِي بِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ اللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ هَادٍ
Allah the Exalted gradually revealed-ascended the Best Verbal discourse.
This discourse is conveyed to people in the state of a written book.
It is the explainer with metaphors mirroring-bringing face to face the hidden physical facts.
It is a Miscellany-cluster of Binary-Symmetrical-analogous verbal passages.
The skins of those who persistently fear and revere their Sustainer Lord become bristled in fear from some segment of it: Grand Qur'aan.
Afterwards, their Skins become softened.
Moreover, their hearts become exclusively soft and revered towards the Reminder-Reiteration-Verbal Message of Allah the Exalted-the Grand Qur'aan.
This Book: Grand Qur'aan is the Guidance of Allah.
He the Exalted guides with this Book a person about whom He decides to be guided.
However, should Allah the Exalted cause someone exposed-lets him remain neglectfully straying-wandering-indifferent, thereat, there is none a guide for him. [39:23]

Allah the Exalted guides only through the Book. And the Book is a verbal discourse. Words are same for everyone. It is one's own choice whether he attaches himself to the Words of Allah or desires to derive his own meanings and deviate from them. Thereat, he will be let remain neglectufully straying in getting self inspirations etc.

One has to first be sure who is his  مُنَادِيًا. If he thinks he is his own مُنَادِيًا then doomed is he.

The elevated Messenger of Allah the Exalted has made the point simple and clear. He was advised to tell people and the posterity that he is the revivalist, admonisher, awakener for those whom Qur'aan reached. [see 6:19]

You and me fall in this category. We should be concerned about ourselves. Let the univese be managed by the Lord of Universes. If you and me go beyond this, doom is the only end; simple and straightforward.

The majority of wise-men, be they the "Seven Wise Men of Greece" or Sophists, Gorgias or renowned Protagoras and Plato or his illustrious teacher Aristotle, or other "men of wisdom" before and after them, tried and delved deep in their imagination to understand the boundaries of "Knowledge" but seldom cared to benefit from "The Book of Hour". The "imaginative knots" never produce a ladder and rope that could take one to the point of certainty and conviction. It is unfortunate that majority of the "wise-brains" gave more confusion than benefit to humanity since they in time and space remained neglectful to "The Book of Hour".

A book exists/existed for guidance for each and every hour-period. [Refer 13:38]

People like moving zigzag. Philosphers only appease the desires of people. Simple and straighforward statement is contained only in Qur'aan-the guide in time and space--that is why it talks in simple and straightforward manner.

The fact is that Dextral-Righteousness-Veracity has made itself an evident behavioral pattern of equilibrium distinct from the aberrance-deviousness-rambling [after revelation of Grand Qur'aan]. [refer 2:256]

Rest all is just wandering and self deception.

we take the Qur'aan as the origin and source of guidance without intermixing human opinions.

Qur'aan is the Guide. And guidance is needed in time and space. And time is just the Day and Night-24 hours and 12 months.

The guide must tell us what to do during these 24 hours and at what time; like when to go before Allah and when to go in privacy with wife. How to conduct and observe protocol when in the presence of Allah; and the conduct and protocol when in privacy with wife.

All of our actions are meant and aimed at satisfying the appetities and desires of three areas of body; the chest; the middle part stomach; and the pelvic area. Qur'aan as guide must tell us as to how we satisfy the appetities of these areas and about those acts which are beyond the limits permissible for us with regard to these three areas. This is all categorized under social conduct.

Nothing is at our discretion to determine what is good and bad. Good and bad is explained in Qur'aan. We have to remain within the bounds prescribed by Qur'aan for salvation.
Standard accepted convention is that the Book guides in timeline. While despatching us to the Earth as autanomous species enjoying freedom of choice, Allah the Exalted had said that we will be guided by Him through His Verbal Communication. He did not mention that the people will be having their personal "holy spirits".

Man is free to select whatever he likes. Allah's guidance is solely the Book, whom He the Exalted calls "My verbal communications".

The month of Ramadan is the month during which the Qur'aan was compositely; flash descended.
It is a guidance for the people; and distinctly self explanatory verbal passages were gradually communicated from the miscellany of Al-Huda'a: the Guide and Al-Furqau'n: the Criterion; the Separator of right from wrong, fact from falsity-conjecture.

Qur'aan describes the fact for the entire timeline. Qur'aan was thereafter revealed gradually. Whatever was coming it was coming from the Qur'aan.

وَأَنَّا لَمَّا سَمِعْنَا الْهُدَى آمَنَّا بِهِ

Yes guidance is in the words of Allah contained in the Book-now Qur'aan. All those who seek guidance in spirits including so called "God's spirit" are wandering in their fascinations. They delve in their subconscious minds without knowing what are the functions performed by that brain. The conscious brain attends to the guidance not subconscious brain.

Reading and understanding of the semantic information of the text yields you the message and the voice of author whose book one is reading. The book is authored to convey the intentions of the author to its reader and his expectations about reciprocal response.

You wish not to first listen to the author but wish to locate his spirit around you. One cannot announce even his belief without the will of the Creator because every cell of human body is ordained and contains inbuilt written guidance of the Creator.
The Providence is all around us. But guidance is when you wish to listen His words spoken through the Messenger.

Providence means presence of Allah the Exalted and His Will all the time and everywhere. His presence and His Will with regard to us is known and becomes evident through His Words. We hear the voice in the Book. The best book is the one wherein the reader can hear the voice of the author.

Inspiration comes from the Book. Qur'aan is a persuasive book. Its Author wants us to act upon it after having thoughtfully evalualated it. Sincereity comes only when one agrees in letter and spirit with the message conveyed by the Author.

Qur'aan is the SIMPLEST book in the world. It tells in simplest words the desire of its Author as to how the man should manage his own self and understand his surroundings wherein he lives. This is the simplest Manual for the top of line product ever created-the Man. Why to complicate one's life with inspirations outside its contents?

Reverse the order: Allah the Exalted is the Guide. He the Exalted guides verbally-the best mode for the understanding and comprehension of humans. Verbal written guidance is always authentic not intermixed with opinions of people and one can refer to it any moment to verify whether one is really following the guidance of Allah in physical realm--attitudes, socialization, behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, and acts. Verbal written guidance leaves no scope for man to err.