The Absolute Power - FATE & DESTINY

The Absolute Power

If anyone of us looks back to his life, he will find out that one day he must have out cried from within himself with the feel that God is Great, that God is around, or that God adjourns punishment but never disregards it. We do not say this except if we are watching an event where the divine power is absolutely obvious.  For if we reason what we are watching we will not say or feel the same because it will then be a normal thing. 

We do not say God is there when we see the strong having victory over the weak because what has happened is ruled by reason, the law that we see every day. The victory of the wrong doers over the oppressed people does not let us say that God adjourns and never disregards because it is also reasoned by the law, that we see daily when the oppressors have victory over the oppressed people. But we do not see the absolute power except in the injustice inflicted upon man. That is because the judgment in everything is postponed till the day of Resurrection. The only exception is the oppression of man, for Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) takes revenge from those who devour people’s rights in the worldly life so that the life is balanced and so that the people will know that there is a worldly revenge for injustice besides the hereafter revenge.

That is why Rasoul Allah (PBUH) says:

Beware the prayer of the person treated unjustly for there is no barrier between it and Allah. Allah lifts it over the clouds and says: <With My Might and Majesty I will give you victory even if it is after a long period of time>

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Except what Allah wills - FATE & DESTINY

CHAPTER FIVE

Except what Allah wills

We have pointed out how the freedom granted by Allah to man is represented in the way man directs the energy created by Allah in his body towards obeying or towards disobeying, And we have mentioned that Allah (SWT) has given man the ultimate freedom to direct that energy towards what he wants so that judgment will be just. At this point we can find some people pausing at the noble verse where Allah says:

<<And We sent not a Messenger except with the language of his people, in order that he might make (The Message) clear for them. Then Allah misleads whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And He is the All-Mighty, the AllWise>>

Ayah 4 from Surat Ibrahim

And in His saying (TWT):

<<Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He>>

Ayah 31 from Surat Al-Mudather

And there are a lot of verses in the noble Qur’an that we are going through in this chapter and they all confirm that Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. If that is the truth where the will of Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) is what leads astray or leads to the right path, then how will the judgment be just? And do any of us hold anything in his hands against the divine will of Allah (SWT)?

First, we say that Allah (SWT) has the ultimate power in His universe for all the rulings of this universe are created by Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) and the creature can never control the will of his creator. That is why Al-Haqq (SWT) the creator of the universal laws has breached them for his prophets. He made the fire whose ruling is to burn, cool and peaceful for Ibrahim (PBUH) and He made the sea with its ruling to estetraq, splits for Moses (PBUH) and He gave Eissa (Jesus PBUH) with His own leave the ability to heal those who are born blind, the lepers and to resurrect the dead. Allah gave all those miracles to His prophets to strengthen their proclamation of Allah, but He (Azz wa Jall) did not want to limit the absolute power to his prophets only. For we can see that absolute power every day in watching the weak having victory over the strong, or the discriminated having victory over the compelling, or a powerless person having victory over the powerful.

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Choice and Deprivation of Choice - FATE & DESTINY

Choice and Deprivation of Choice

We should be aware of an important point to which Allah (SWT) wanted to draw our attention and that is the choice we are granted in life is with the power of Allah and is according to His will. And if He wanted to deprive us that choice, He would do it because it is granted to us with His own will. That is why Al-Haqq (SWT) says about Abu Lahab, the uncle of Rasoul Allah (PBUH) and one of the chiefs of infidelity who had vigorously fought the religion of Allah(SWT):

<<Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab (an uncle of the Prophet) and perish he! His wealth and his children will not benefit him! He will be burnt in a Fire of blazing flames! And his wife, too who carries wood (thorns of Sa’dan which she used to put on the way of the Prophet (PBUH) or use to slander him). In her neck is a twisted rope of Masad (palm fibre).>>

 Surat Al-Masad

Al-Haqq (SWT) announces in the Qur’an – which is never changed or replaced and that is brought down upon His messenger (PBUH) to worship Allah by reading it till the day of Resurrection - that Abu Lahab will die as an infidel and that he will go to Hell.

So what would be the case if Abu Lahab have gathered the people and said “Mohammed mentions in the Qur’an - that he claims to be brought upon him from Allah - that I will die as an infidel and will then go to hell and here I am saying in front of you that I witness that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is His messenger so that you all know that there is nothing sent to Mohammed from Heaven. Abou Lahab could have said that even out of hypocrisy to destroy the whole case of the religion.

But Allah (SWT) defies Abu Lahab in something that is within the scope of choice. And yet it never occurred to the mind of Abu Lahab, to use this defiance in destroying the religion that he strongly hated and opposed. Actually a lot of the main chiefs of infidelity like Abu Soufyan, Khaled ibn AlWaleed, Amro ibn Al’Aas and others fought Islam strongly but after that they had strong faith in Islam, except for Abu Lahab who rejected Faith till the last moment of his life.

Al-Haqq (SWT) wants to draw our attention to the fact that He (Jalla Jallaloh) provided man with choice and that if He wills to take it away, man will have no power of choice. That is what happened with Abu Lahab, Allah (SWT) took away choice partly from him and then placed in his hands a case by which he can destroy the religion of Allah but he could not do it and it never hit his mind to use it because in that specific point he did not own the choice.

And so we find out with the definite proof that Allah gave man the freedom to choose in what to do and what not to do and that if Allah wills, He can take it away partly or fully from man.

By that we reach the point that the deed is from Allah (SWT) nothing happens without His consent and His will because He (Jalla Jallaloh) alone owns all the elements of deed. Man’s choice is only in directing the energy that Allah created for him to do the good or evil. Allah (SWT) gave man complete freedom within the scope of “Takleef” to do and not to do. Man can be able to go for what Allah forbids and he can get away from what Allah orders him to do and only within that scope there is reckoning.  Even that freedom of choice is subject to the will of Allah (SWT), He can take it away fully or partially whenever He wants. So we should understand that the freedom of choice is from Allah not from man and that Allah (SWT) wanted to make man free to choose.

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To be continued....

What is Predestination? Fate Qadr