Note: The above table is populated with data obtained from the corpus.quran.com.
However, out of 144 instances of hadaa in the verb form I in the Quran meaning to guide, 47 instances found in 42 verses across 7 surahs are reviewed below:
[1:6] Guide us to the straight path (ih’dinaa al-siraata al-mustaqeema).
[2:26] Indeed, God does not shy to set forth an example of a mosquito, even what is greater of it. So, as for those who have believed, then they know that it is the truth from their Lord. As for those who have disbelieved, then they say, “What has God intended with this example?” He lets go astray many with it and He guides (wa-yah’dee) many with it. And He does not let go astray with it except the disobedient.
[2:142] The fools among the people will say, “What has turned them from their direction of prayer, which they had been on it?” Say, “To God belongs the east and the west; He guides (yah’dee) whomever He wills to a straight path.”
[2:143] And thus that we have made you a middle community that you will be witnesses over the people, and the messenger will be a witness over you. And we have not made the direction of prayer, which you had been on it except that we make evident whoever follows the messenger from whoever turns back on his heels. And indeed, it has been surely a great test except for those whom has guided God (hadaa allahu). And it has not been God to let go waste your faith. Indeed, God is surely Kind, Merciful to the people.
[2:185] Ramadan which is a month has been sent down in it the Quran as a guidance for mankind and clear proofs of the guidance and the statute book. So, whoever has witnessed the month from you, then he should fast in it and whoever has been sick or on a journey, then a specified number from other days. God does intend the ease for you and He does not intend the hardship for you, and that you may complete the specified number; and that you may glorify God through which (Quran) He has guided you (wa-li’tukabbiruu allaha `alaa maa hadaakum), and that you may appreciate.
[2:198] It has not been upon you any sin that you seek bounty from your Lord. Then when you have departed from `Arafat, then you shall remember God near the Sacred Monument (Muzdalifah) as that He has guided you (hadaakum), even though you had been before of it, surely among the strayers.
[2:213] Mankind had been a single community as God has raised up (from them) the prophets as bearers of good news and warners and has sent down with them the scripture with the truth to judge between the people in what they had differed in it. And none had differed in it except those who had been given it after what had come to them the clear proofs out of jealousy between themselves. Then God has guided (fa-hadaa allahu) those who have believed that which they had differed in it of the truth with His permission. And God guides (allahu yah’dee) whoever He wills to a straight path.
[2:258] Did you not see to one who had argued with Abraham about his Lord that God had given him the kingdom? When Abraham said, “My Lord is One who grants life and causes death.” He (the king) said, “I grant life and causes death.” Abraham said, “So, indeed, God brings the sun from the east, then bring you with it from the west.” So, he had been stumped the one who disbelieved. And God does not guide (allahu laa-yah’dee) the people who are the wrongdoers.
[2:264] O you who have believed, do not nullify your charities with the favor and the insult, like the one who spends his wealth for showing off of the people, while he does not believe in God and the Last Day. So, his example is like an example of a rock upon it is dust, then has fallen on it heavy rain, so has left it bare. They do not control anything of what they have earned, and God does not guide (allahu laa-yah’dee) the people who are the disbelievers.
[2:272] It has not been on you (Muhammad) of their guidance, but God guides (allaha yah’dee) whomever He wills. And whatever of good you spend, then it is for yourselves, and do not spend except seeking for God’s pleasure, and what of good you spend will be repaid in full to you and you will not be wronged.
[3:8] “Our Lord, You do not deviate our hearts after when You have guided us (hadaytanaa) and grant mercy for us from Yourself. Indeed, You are the Grantor.”
[3:86] How would God guide (kayfa yah’dee allahu) a people who have disbelieved after their faith (Muslims) and have witnessed that the messenger (a messenger of covenant) is truth, and there has come to them the clear proofs (mathematical coding of Quran)? And God does not guide (wa-allahu laa-yah’dee) the people of the wrongdoers.
[3:101] And how can you disbelieve, while is recited God’s revelations to you, and among you is His messenger? And whoever holds fast to God, then certainly, he has been guided (hudiya) to a straight path.
[4:26] God wishes to make clear for you and to guide you (wa-yah’diyahkum) ways of those before of you and to accept repentance from you. And God is Knower, Wise.
[4:68] And that we would have guided them (wa-la’hadaynaahum) to a straight path.
[4:88] So what is for you over the hypocrites of two parties? While God has cast them for what they have earned. Do you wish that you can guide (tah’duu) whomever God has sent astray? Whomever God sends astray, then you will never find for him a way.
[4:137] Indeed, those who have believed, then have disbelieved, then have believed, then have disbelieved, then have increased disbelief; it would not be God to forgive for them, nor to guide them (wa-laa-li’yah’diyahum) to a (right) path.
[4:168] Indeed, those who have disbelieved and have done wrong, it would not be God to forgive for them, nor to guide them (wa-laa-li’yah’diyahum) to a path;
[4:175] So, as for those who have believed in God and have held fast to Him, then He will admit them into mercy from Him and bounty, and will guide them (wa-yah’deehim) to Him to a straight path.
[5:16] God guides with it (Quran – a light and a clear scripture) (yah’dee bihi allahu) whoever has sought His pleasure to ways of the peace, and brings them out of the darknesses into the light by His permission, and guides them (wa-yah’deehim) to a straight path.
[5:51] O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies; of them are allies to one another. And whoever takes them as allies among you, then indeed, he is of them. Indeed, God does not guide (allaha laa-yah’dee) the people of the wrongdoers.
[5:67] O you the messenger, you shall convey what has been sent down to you (prophet) from your Lord, and if you do not do, then you have not conveyed His message. And God will protect you from the people. Indeed, God does not guide (allaha laa-yah’dee) the people who are the disbelievers.
[5:108] That is closer that they will give of the testimony on its form, or they would fear that the oaths will refuted after their oaths. And you shall fear God and listen, while God does not guide (allahu laa-yah’dee) the disobedient people.
[6:71] Say, “Shall we call on other than God what cannot benefit us nor can it harm us, and are we turned back on our heels after God has guided us (hadaanaa allahu)?” Like the one whom has enticed the devils in the earth, confusing of him as companions call him to the guidance: “Come to us!” Say, “Indeed, God’s guidance is the true guidance, and we have been commanded to submit to Lord of the worlds.
[6:77] Then when he had seen the moon rising, he said, “This is my Lord.” Then when it had set, he said, “Surely, if my Lord does not guide me (la-in lam yah’dini-i rabbi-i), surely, I will be with the people of the strayers.”
[6:80] His people had argued with him (Abraham). He said, “Do you argue with me about God, and certainly, He has guided me (wa-qad hadaani)? I do not fear that you associate with Him except for my Lord wills anything. My Lord has encompassed everything with knowledge, then will you not take heed?
[6:84] And we had granted to him (Abraham) Isaac and Jacob – each we had guided (kullan hadaynaa). And Noah, we had guided (wa-nuuhan hadaynaa) before (of them), and of his descendants: David, and Solomon, and Job, and Joseph, and Moses, and Aaron. And thus that we reward the gooddoers.
[6:87] And from their fathers, and their descendants, and their brothers; and we had chosen them and we guided them (wa-hadaynaahum) to a straight path.
[6:88] That was God’s guidance. He guides with it (yah’dee bihi) whomever He wills from His servants. And if they had associated partners, surely, He would have made worthless for them what they had done to accomplish.
[6:90] Those were whom God has guided (hudaa allahu); so, you (Muhammad) shall follow of their guidance. Say, “I do not ask you any reward for it. It is not but a reminder for the people of the world.”
[6:125] So whomever God wishes to guide him (fa-man yuridu allahu an yah’diyahu) extends his breast for the Submission; and whomever He wishes to let him go astray makes his breast tight being constricted as if that he is climbing in the sky. Thus that God places the evil upon those who do not believe.
[6:144] And of the camels two, and of the cattle two. Say, “Are the two males He has prohibited, or the two females, or what has carried the two females’ wombs? Or had you been witnesses when God had enjoined you of this? So who is more wicked than whoever has invented a lie about God to mislead the people having no knowledge? Indeed, God does not guide (allaha laa-yah’dee) the people of the wrongdoers.”
[6:149] Say, “To God is the irrefutable argument; so, if He had willed, surely, He would have guided you (la’hadaakum) all.”
[6:161] Say (Muhammad), “Indeed me, has guided me my Lord (hadaani-i rabbi-i) to a path straight, an established religion, a religion of Abraham – Monotheism. And he had not been with the idol worshipers.”
[7:30] A group He has guided (fareeqan hadaa), while a group has justified the straying on them; indeed, they have taken the devils as allies other than God, and they think that they are guided ones.
[7:43] And we have removed whatever of malice is in their breasts. There flows the rivers of their underneath, and they have said, “All praise belongs to God Who has guided us (lillahi alladhee hadaanaa) to this, and we have not been to be guided if not that God had guided us (hadaanaa allahu). Certainly, there had come messengers of our Lord with the truth.” And they have been addressed that – that is the Paradise you have been made to inherit it for what you have done to accomplish.
[7:100] And does it not guide (a-wa-lam yah’dee) to those who inherit the earth after its people that, if we would will, we could have afflicted them for their sins, and we could place a seal around their hearts while they would not hear?
[7:148] And a people of Moses after of him had taken an image of a calf for it from their jewelry having lowing sound. Did they not see that it could not speak to them, nor could it guide them (wa-laa-yah’deehim) to a (right) path? They had taken it and had been wrongdoers.
[7:155] And Moses had selected seventy men from his people for our appointment. Then when the quake had seized them, he said, “My Lord, if You had willed, You could have destroyed them before and also me. Would You destroy us for what has done the foolish among us? This is not except Your test; You misguide with it whomever You will, and You guide (wa-tah’dee) whomever You will. You are our Protector, so forgive for us and have mercy on us, and You are a best of the forgiving ones.
[7:159] And from a people of Moses was a community guide (yah’duuna) with the truth and with it establish justice.
[7:178] Whomever God guides (yah’di allahu), then he is the guided one; and whomever He lets go astray, then those – they are the losers.
[7:181] And from whom we have created a community guide (yah’duuna) with the truth and with it they establish justice.
The messages in the instances are very straightforward to understand that God’s guidance is the true guidance. Thus, He guides whomever He wills and He lets go astray whomever He wills. He has sent down the Quran as a light and a clear scripture to guide the people to a straight path, and whoever has followed it and has established justice with it are the guided ones knowing that the duty of the messenger is to convey the message and the messengers who have delivered scripture are prophets. But it is unfortunate that He has let us know that He would not guide the believers who have disbelieved after their faith, even they may ask Him to guide them to the straight path in their practice.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (09/06/2024)