Sentence examples for rightly guided from inspiring English sources

He and his three immediate successors are known as the "perfect" or "rightly guided" caliphs.

ʿAlī himself was then chosen as the fourth and last of the rightly guided caliphs.

For example, no Shiite Muslim would call the first three caliphs rashidun, or "rightly guided".

In England, he thinks, "the root of true, rightly guided power, the essence of authority, was not learning but the veneer of knowledge".

There, in 1863, he publicly declared himself to be the divinely chosen imām-mahdī ("rightly guided leader"), whom the Bāb had foretold.

His successors four "rightly guided" caliphs and then the Umayyad caliphs—spread Islam further still, until the Islamic world stretched from Spain to Pakistan.

Plato is thus indirectly the pioneer of modern beliefs that only a party organization, inspired by correct and "scientific" doctrines, formulated by the written word and interpreted by authority, can rightly guide the state.

Maggie is on a different journey, and while the detours and destination of her path are vague, she makes for a mesmerizing traveling companion — or, more rightly, guide.

I had the advantage of being brought up by a mother who rightly or wrongly guided me that most men were pretty stupid.

Graff suggests that the fears of the Cold War planted the seeds of "today's obsessive secrecy culture" and helped shape the alarmism that he rightly notes "has guided so much of our response to the modern threat of terrorism". He doesn't quite flesh out that argument.

For at the time respondent was questioned these police officers were guided, quite rightly, by the principles established in Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct.