رَشَاد
Boy Arabic origin Rashād
In the Quran“Right guidance, the right way”
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Ghafir 40:29.
The word occurs twice in Surah Ghafir, in the contrast between two ways: Pharaoh claims “I guide you only to the path of right conduct” (40:29), and the believer of his household answers: “Follow me, I will guide you to the path of right conduct (sabil al-rashad)” (40:38).
Rashad is a verbal noun of the root r-sh-d of right direction: being on the right path, soundness of judgement and conduct, the opposite of going astray (ghayy). The name is given in the Middle East, Azerbaijan (Rəşad) and Turkey (Reşat, like the Ottoman sultan Mehmed V Reşad).
Yes: the word Rashad appears in the Quran 2 times, in one surah.
يَٰقَوْمِ لَكُمُ ٱلْمُلْكُ ٱلْيَوْمَ ظَٰهِرِينَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَمَن يَنصُرُنَا مِنۢ بَأْسِ ٱللَّهِ إِن جَآءَنَا قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَآ أُرِيكُمْ إِلَّا مَآ أَرَىٰ وَمَآ أَهْدِيكُمْ إِلَّا سَبِيلَ ٱلرَّشَادِ ٢٩
O my people, sovereignty is yours today, [your being] dominant in the land. But who would protect us from the punishment of Allāh if it came to us?" Pharaoh said, "I do not show you except what I see, and I do not guide you except to the way of right conduct."
وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِىٓ ءَامَنَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱتَّبِعُونِ أَهْدِكُمْ سَبِيلَ ٱلرَّشَادِ ٣٨
And he who believed said, "O my people, follow me; I will guide you to the way of right conduct.
All the words of the root ر ش د in the Quran (19 occurrences)
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Rashad in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
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