CHAPTER FOUR
Choice and Al-Takleef
Our
discussion about Al-Qadda wa Al-Qadar and the Choice has reached a limited
point. You have no choice except for what you actually do, and even in that you
do not have ultimate choice. Still your choice in what you do is limited and
not everything you want to do is subject to your choice. Actually there are few
things that you do and are subject to your choice.
Before we
go further, we should understand the meaning of the deed. There are three terms
the saying, the work and the deed and each of the three has a different
meaning. The saying is the work of the tongue whose role is to speak. And the
work is the role of the senses that execute what man wants and the doing is the
coordination of the talk and the work. For that Al-Haqq (SWT) says:
<<O, you who believe! Why do you say that which you
do not do? Most hateful it is with Allah that you say that which you do not do.
>>
Ayat 2,3 from Surat As-Saff
So there
are sayings, work and doings. Man can own the saying but he cannot own the
doing. Why? Because the deed has conditions, that are not subject to his
choice. The first two of those conditions are the time and the place for each action
needs time and place to take part at. Time is measured by the events or actions
that take place.
And for
anything to happen in man’s life he needs time which can be at least few
seconds. In our worldly life we measure our life by time, a task can take a year
while another can take two years. An event could have happened a year ago and
another could have passed for thousands of years. Something could happen
tomorrow or the day after or even after a year. The man is 20 years of age and
that other man is 70 or 80 years old.
Therefore
the events of life for man are measured by time that is owned by Allah who
created the time. We do not own the time on the contrary it is time that owns
us. For man cannot stop the time, he does not have the power to remain a kid
and not to grow up. He cannot remain a youth without aging and he cannot have
the power to return to the past and go back in time for a year or more.
Also no one
of us owns the future so that he can go twenty years ahead in one day. So if we
cannot control the time, then we will not be able to control its events. By
that anything that we do is beyond our power of choice with respect to time
because we do not own except the moment that we are currently living.
To be continued....
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