What is the correct guidance regarding someone who supplicates with, "O Allah, ordain for this Ummah a matter of rectitude, wherein the people of Your obedience are honored and the people of Your disobedience are humiliated," and is it more appropriate to replace "are humiliated" with "are guided"?

This supplication (du'a') is narrated from Talq ibn Habib – a Tabi'i (successor to the companions) – with different wordings. Sufyan al-Thawri approved of it and prayed with it, and scholars subsequently continued to pray with it, such as Al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam, Al-Mawardi, Ibn Taymiyyah, and Ibn Uthaymin. As for the wording "wherein You grant might to those who obey You, and abasement to those who disobey You," it has become widespread recently.

The meaning of the supplication revolves around the ongoing struggle between truth and falsehood. The supplicant asks Allah that the word of those who obey Him be heard and their strength prevail, and that the strength of those who call to disobedience weaken. This contains goodness for the Ummah and for the people of disobedience themselves, as the abasement of those who commit sins may prompt them to repent. It is permissible for anyone who wishes to change the word "abasement" to "guidance," or to adhere to what was transmitted from the Salaf (pious predecessors) by mentioning "Your enemy" or "those who are hostile to You."