5 – Al-Irshaad (guidance/direction): Like in His Qawl (swt):
Al-amr (the Command)
The meaning of Al-Amr:
The Amr is the Lafzh (wording) that has been provided to request the action upon the angle or basis of it coming from higher (Wajh ul-Isti’laa’). The form (Seeghah) that has been provided in the language for the command is the form: (If’al) and this command form has come with a number of meanings, the most significant of which are:
1 – Al-Wujoob (obligation): This is like in the Qawl of Allah Ta’Aalaa:
Establish the Salaah and give the Zakaah (An-Noor 56)
2 – An-Nadb (recommendation): Like in the Qawl of Allah Ta’Aalaa:
Then write a contract with them if you know there is within them goodness (An-Noor 33).
3 – Al-Ibaahah (permissibility) like His Qawl (swt):
And when you come out of Ihraam, then hunt (Al-Maa’idah 2).
4 – At-Tahdeed (threat): Like His Qawl (swt):
Do whatever you wish (Al-Fussilat 40).
And bring to witness two witnesses from among your men (Al-Baqarah 282).
Al-Irshaad is close to the Nadb because of both sharing in common the request related to the attainment of the Maslahah, although the Nadb relates to the Maslahah of the hereafter whilst the Irshaad relates to the Maslahah of the Dunyaa.
6 – At-Ta’deeb (disciplining/educating): This falls within the Nadb and an example of this is like the statement of the Messenger (saw) to Abi Salamah when he was young: “O boy, mention Allah’s name, eat with your right hand and eat what is before you (i.e. from nearest in the plate/dish)” (Al-Bukhaari).
7 – At-Ta’jeez (inability related to challenge): Like in the Qawl of Allah Subhaanahu:
Then produce a Soorah like it (Al-Baqarah 23).
That is whilst Allah knows that they will never be able to bring or produce a Soorah like it.
8 – Ad-Du’aa (supplication): This is like the Qawl of Allah Ta’Aalaa:
My Lord forgive me and my two parents (An-Nooh 28).
9 – Al-Imtinaan (gratitude): As has come in His Qawl (swt):
Eat from that which Allah has provided for you of sustenance (Al-An’aam 142).
10 – Al-Ikraam (honouring/provision of generosity):
(It will be said to them): 'Enter therein (Paradise), in peace and security' (Al-Hijr 46).
11 – Al-Ihaanah (rebuke/humiliation):
"Taste you (this)! Verily, you were (pretending to be) the mighty, the generous! (Ad-Dukhaan 49).
This is as an Ihaanah (rebuke/humiliation) due to the Qareenah (linking indication/connotation) that it is an address to the one who is in the fire.
Whether you are patient of it or impatient of it, it is all the same (At-Toor 16).
I.e. Patience or the absence of it are the same in respect to being equally worthless at that point.
13 – At-Tamanniy (hope/wish): Like that expressed in the words of the poet:
Here the poet is expressing his hope for the night to end (and the morning to come) due to its length.