God's guardianship of the believers

Sha'rawi holds that God is the guardian of believers in the sense that He is nearer to them than any kinsman, the first to be called on, and that His guardianship runs through every stage of faith ¹.

He says God guards believers with proofs before faith, with help and victory with faith, and with bounty in the Hereafter, so the guardianship does not end ².

He holds that darkness hides things from sight and light reveals them. Bringing out from darkness into light is ignorance and faith. Bringing out from light into darkness can be apostasy after faith or a barrier against entering faith ².

He says the guardians of the disbelievers are the taghut. Although the word is singular in the verse, it covers a group, and he holds that the disbeliever has no guardian but one who misleads him ³.

His account of the words for guardian and guardianship is his own reading of the language and has not been checked against lexicons or tafsir. No academic or non-Sunni view has been checked.