Witness of Allah
Then there
is the sixth privilege; Al-Haqq (SWT) made us witness Him since we were still
in the world of dispersion, and by that He put the instinct – fitra - of belief in our souls and so we became with
that fitra believers of Allah the Creator - Al-Khaliq, the Magnificent -
Al-‘Azim (The Magnificent). And that witness was necessary so that man would
not come on the Resurrection Day arguing as he always do and deny knowing
Allah. And although we cannot see Allah, whenever His name is mentioned to
anyone he finds Allah familiar to him and close to his soul. It is the fitra of
belief that Allah (SWT) plants in us before we come to this world and start our
experience with the choice that Allah wanted for us and that we willingly
accepted. He (SWT) says
<<And (remember) when Your Lord brought forth from
the Children of Adam, from their loins, their descendents (or from Adam’s loin
his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): “Am I not Your
Lord?”
They said: “Yes! We testify,” lest you should say on the
Day of Resurrection: “Verily we have been unaware of this.” Or lest you should
say: “It was only our fathers before us who took others as partners in worship
along with Allah, and we were (merely their) descendants after them; will You
then destroy us because of the deeds of men who practiced Al-Batil (men who are
futile committing crimes and sins, invoking and worshiping others besides
Allah)?”>>
Ayat 172, 173 from surat Al-A’raf
We have
showed so far that we were created with the privilege of choice that Allah
wanted for us and that we have accepted. And this Ayah Al-karima approves that
same concept,
<<But ye will not, unless Allah wills; for Allah is
full of Knowledge and Wisdom>>
Ayah 30 from surat Al-Insan
That is
first Allah wants for us to be free to choose and our choice comes out of His
divine will (SWT). And Al-Haqq (Galla Gallaloh) guarantees this choice in His
creation of the universe and in His Ayat in the universe as well as in the journey
of life, so that nothing distracts us from serving Allah, which is the main reason
behind our creation, and so that nothing stops us from loving Allah who arranged
this life for us.
When
Al-Haqq (SWT) sent His messengers to show us the right path that we should
follow, it was all out of His love to us. He loves us so much that he did not
want to trouble us with looking for the truth, that the creator is Allah, nor
with trying to find out what He (SWT) wants us to do. So there have been the messengers
to inform us that the Creator - Al-Khaliq - is Allah and that He wants us to
love and serve Him using a moderate defined law; a law that the messengers have
applied before the creation of Allah. By this law Allah spared us the confusion
of searching for Him, the Creator and finding out what He wants from those whom
He created.
Yet, the
human choice was not an infinite choice. It was limited in what to do and what
is not permissible by the law of Allah.
To be continued....
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