CHAPTER TWO
The Human Choice
Man was
created free to choose. But was he given a boundless choice? Some of the people
with superficial knowledge who claim that they are free to follow their mind
and their own thoughts say with enthusiasm that they have the ultimate freedom.
Some people even go further and say that a smart person is capable of creating
his own destiny and that he can place himself in life wherever he likes.
We tell
those people not to be hasty, for what they are saying is dismissed by the
facts of life. Al-Haqq (SWT) did not give man ultimate choice, He gave him the
choice that best suits his role in life for He (SWT) is the perfectly wise –
AlHakim (The Perfectly Wise) - and everything He does is with great Wisdom.
Allah (SWT) is the knower of all - Al-‘Alim - and everything going on in His
universe happens within His knowledge and not just haphazardly. Actually,
things going on are inter-related and linked in a way or another, and man has
not been given the ultimate choice in life.
And if
everyone of us looks back throughout his life or if one even looks to himself
and his soul, he will find a lot of things that is not submitted to his own will
or choice. He will find that the majority of man’s life is not submitted to his
choice.
Let’s start
the story from the very beginning, when man comes to this universe, when he
starts the first moment of his life breathing air into his lungs, the moment of
his birth. Did he choose his place of birth?
His date of birth? The hour he was born in? None of us ever chose his
hour of birth, we all come to life by the decree of Allah (SWT). The
introduction of anyone to life is not by his own choice nor is the place of his
birth nor is his mankind, male or female. He does not choose his nationality
whether Arabic, Britain or American. And
he does not even have any choice over his own body whether he is short or tall,
the color of his eyes, his hair, how his features look like. He does not choose
his parents and he does not know if he can hear and see, if he has perfect
hands and legs, if he has any illness in his body. All this and many other
things man does not choose and by this Al-Haqq (SWT) draws our attention to the
boundaries of man’s choice from the moment he is born. And in that Allah (Galla
Gallaloh) says
<<He it is who shapes you in the wombs as He wills.
There is no god but He, the Exalted in Might, the Wise>>
Ayah 6 from surat Al-i-‘Imran
By this
Al-Haqq (SWT) relates everything linked to the moment of birth and human
configuration to His own ultimate power and He does not give man any choice in
being born white or black, healthy or ill, and no choice in how his face or
body looks.
To be continued....
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