اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
Guide us to the straight path. (Qur'an 1:6)
This supplication remains meaningful even for people already familiar with the right path: they require steadfastness, the ability to act upon what they know, and protection from error. Guidance thus cannot simply be confined to receiving information once.
Supplication, teaching, and sincere counsel are genuine human acts. Yet they do not imply that a person can independently create faith in someone else's heart. Prayer seeks divine enabling that is not an autonomous creative power of the servant.