LIFE and DESTINY
Al-Haqq (SWT) explains that case more
thoroughly by saying
<<Did you (O Muhammad PBUH) not turn your vision to
those who abandoned their homes, though they were thousands (in number), for
fear of death? Allah said to them, “Die”: Then He restored them to life. Truly,
Allah is full of bounty to mankind, but most men are ungrateful>>
Ayah 243 from surat Al-Baqarah
This Ayah
was descended for the people of a village who were so scared from death due to
a plague that they had to leave the village. Allah (SWT) wanted to teach them
that they can never escape His destiny and that if Allah (SWT) wants them to
die they will not be safe by leaving that village to anywhere else. So Allah
made them all die and then He, answering the prayers of their prophets, gave
them life again.
Decree of
death comes at a pre-destined time that cannot be delayed or anticipated for a
single minute and it is impossible to run away from it. Allah has hidden the
reason of death and the time it is appointed so that no one thinks that it is a
mechanical procedure where we are born and then after aging we die, as if the
length of our life is fixed and after reaching sixty or seventy we should die.
For that the ultimate power of Allah made death with no fixed reason, the
infant dies in his mother’s abdomen, the sick man dies as of his illness and
the healthy dies without any known reason. The kid dies, the young man dies and
the old man dies as well. This proves that death happens by the decree of Allah
and that reason has nothing to do with it, for two men may have the same
illness and both are treated by the same physician and you find that one dies
in few days and the other lives for years.
Yet there
are people who debate the issue of death saying that one can order the
execution of a man or that one can decide to kill a man by a knife or a gun and
by that he is capable of controlling death. Those people try to doubt the issue
of death being a decree by Allah and they claim that it can be in the hands of
man. We say that those people are confused between death and murder. Allah
(SWT) only can give and take life and man can never do that but yet he can
murder.
Al-Haqq (SWT) says
<<Muhammad (PBUH) is no more than a messenger, and
indeed many messengers have passed away before him. If he dies or is killed,
will you then turn back on your heels as disbelievers)? And he who turns back
on his heels, not the least harm will he do to Allah; and Allah will give
reward to those who are grateful>>
Ayah 144 from surat Al-i-‘Imran
So death is
different than murder, because Al-Haqq (SWT) says “Died or got killed” and
Al-Haqq (Galla Gallaloh) differentiated between death and murder in many of the
Ayat in the qur’an
<< If they had stayed with us, they would not have
died or been killed>>
Ayah 156 from surat Al-i-‘Imran
And
<<Those who emigrated for the cause of Allah and
after that were killed or died, surely, Allah will provide a good provision for
them>>
Ayah 58 from surat AlHajj
And
<<And Whether you die or are killed, verily, unto
Allah you shall be brought together>>
Ayah 158 from surat
Al-i-‘Imran
To be continued....
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