You cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He wills, and He knows best those who are guided.
Al-Qasas 28:56
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إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۚ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ
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You cannot guide whom you love, but God guides whom He wills, and He knows best those who are guided.
You can't guide everyone you love, but Allah guides whoever He wants. He knows best who will follow the right way.
You can't guide everyone you love, but Allah guides whoever He wills. And He knows best who accepts guidance.
You do not guide whom you love, but God guides whom He wills. He knows best the rightly guided.
You cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He wills, and He knows best those who are guided.
You cannot guide whom you love, but God guides whom He wills, and He knows best those who are guided.
Indeed, [O Muḥammad], you do not guide whom you like, but Allāh guides whom He wills. And He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.
Verily you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) guide not whom you like, but Allâh guides whom He wills. And He knows best those who are the guided.
You cannot guide whoever you like, but Allah guides whom He wills, and He knows best who will be guided.
It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance.
Lo! thou (O Muhammad) guidest not whom thou lovest, but Allah guideth whom He will. And He is Best Aware of those who walk aright.
You cannot guide whoever you please: it is God who guides whom He will. He best knows those who would accept guidance.
(O Prophet), you cannot grant guidance to whom you please. It is Allah Who guides those whom He will. He knows best who are amenable to guidance.
You cannot guide whomever you wish, but [it is] Allah [who] guides whomever He wishes, and He knows best those who are guided.
Innaka la tahdee man ahbabta walakinna Allaha yahdee man yashao wahuwa aAAlamu bialmuhtadeena