اِهْتَدَى be guided in Arabic
اِهْتَدَى is how you say “be guided” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
اللَّهُمَّ لَوْلَا أَنْتَ مَا اِهْتَدَيْنَا وَلَا تَصَدَّقْنَا وَلَا صَلَّيْنَا
O Allah, were it not for You, we would not have been guided, we would not have given charity, and we would not have prayed.
اِهْتَدَيْنَا we were guided
A finished-action verb with -na fixing the doers as 'we', the subject built in. Under the counterfactual negation it reads as 'we would not have been guided', its past shape pulled into an unreal-conditional sense by the frame around it.
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فَقَالَ تَعَالَىٰ وَبِقَوْلِهِ إِهْتَدَى الْمُهْتَدُونَ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْهُمْ أَئِمَّةً يَهْدُونَ بِأَمْرِنَا لَمَّا صَبَرُوا
He, the Exalted, said: By His word the rightly guided were guided, and We made from among them leaders who guide by Our command because they were patient.
إِهْتَدَى was guided
A completed-action verb here showing the classic pattern where a singular-looking verb precedes a plural doer. In this older style the verb stays in its base shape and the plural subject follows it.