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Monday, 7 August 2017

Choice and its Boundaries - FATE & DESTINY



Choice and its Boundaries


To those who say that man has been given ultimate choice in this universe, we tell them that the moment of giving birth dismisses what they are saying and that man even at the moment when he is born does not have any choice. And to complete the picture, let us move from the time of birth when man comes to this world up till the time of death when he leaves it. Does man have any choice when it comes to death? Is he capable of saying no to death? Saying that he does not want to die now or that he will delay his death to the next day or the next year? Definitely not, Allah (SWT) warns us about that truth in many of his Ayat in Al-Qur’an Al-Karim. He (Galla Gallaloh ) says

<<And every nation has its appointed term; when their term comes, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour (or a moment)>>
Ayah 34 from surat Al-A’raf

About those who think that death is related to the events of life like war and conquests and who think that man by staying at home will escape death, AlHaqq (SWT) says

<<O you who believe! Be not like those who disbelieve (hypocrites) and who say to their brethren when they travel through the earth or go out to fight: “If they had stayed with us, they would not have died or been killed.”>>
Ayah 156 from surat Al-i-‘Imran
And his saying (Galla Gallaloh)

<<(They are) the ones who said about their killed brethren while they themselves stayed (at home): “If only they had listened to us, they would not have been killed.” Say: “Avert death from your own selves, if you speak the truth”>>
Ayah 168 from surat Al-Imran

And the two Ayat Al- Karima talks about the infidels and the hypocrites and how they linked death to the human will and the universal events. In the first Ayah the infidels told their brothers that if they traveled and risked their lives or if they went to fight they might die or get killed. But if they stayed at home and did not join Al-Jihad they will save their lives. So those infidels related the time and place of death with the path they would decide to take or with their decision to join Jihad(fighting for the cause of Allah in protecting Islam), and they claimed that it would be a reason for their death. They thought that those who died or got killed would have been alive, if they had stayed in their homes. Death is a decree by Allah (SWT), there is no reason for it. Man dies because his life term has reached an end. A fighter who fights in lots of wars may stay alive, when another man staying in his room may die.

For example Khaled Ben Al-Walid who fought in many wars died in his bed and he said before dying “I have joined a lot of conquests and in every inch of my body there is a hit by a sword, a wound by an arrow or a stab by a spear and here I am dying in my bed same way the animals ÇáÚíÑ die. May the eyes of the cowards not sleep.”

So actually death is not related to being in war joining a conquest or not. A man staying at home may die while another joining a battle may come back safe. And then the second Ayah shows the hypocrites who refused to go to Jihad, and how they were saying to their fellow hypocrites that if the believers had listened to them and had not gone to fight, they would have not died and that they would have been living among them. Al-Haqq (TWT) tells them that they have stayed and refused to fight but yet if their concept is true they should be able to keep death away when it approaches them. Truly, no one can stop death whether one is in a battle, hiding at home or anywhere else. Al-Haqq (SWT) explains this thoroughly in the Ayat that were descended at the time of Ghazwat ‘Uhud when Muslims were defeated and the hypocrites and the unconfident said that if the decision was in their hands, they would have not gone to fight and those who died would not have been killed.

Al-Haqq (SWT) answers them by saying

<<They said, “Have we any part in the affair?” Say (O Muhammad PBUH): “Indeed the affair belongs wholly to Allah.” They hide within themselves what they dare not reveal to you, saying: “if we had anything to do with the affair, none of us would have been killed here.” Say: “Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death.” >>
Ayah 154 from surat Al-i-‘Imran


They kept what they said to themselves and did not show it to the messenger of Allah (PBUH), so Al-Haqq (SWT) wanted to reveal the truth and inform his messenger (PBUH) about it. So then the reply came from Heaven, from AlHaqq (Galla Gallaloh) and He asked his prophet to tell them that being in the battle does not bring them death and does not drive it away either. For those who were at home and were pre-destined to die would have left their homes to the place of their death where they would rest. That is, being conscious about danger and trying to get away from it will not give you more life because death is pre-destined by Allah and it is going to happen no doubt. Moreover you may find that a person pre-destined to die, is struggling to reach the place of his death. 

For example a man insisting to find a seat in a flight and may be paying more money for it not knowing that it is the reason for his death, that this flight is going to crash and all on board will die. And you may find someone else trying to reach a certain place and has suffered a lot of trouble to reach that place and then find death facing him there. Merely death is a decree by Allah and no one can run away from it.

To be continued....





 

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