Will and Movement
So the type
of movements that we call voluntarily or mechanical movements, happen very fast
and they do not deal with the human choice. Man does not tell the movement to
start or to stop.
It is
actually an energy that Allah (SWT) provided you with its power. No one can claim
that it is an internal power or that it happens by man’s own choice. Allah (SWT)
placed this energy in you, the energy to move and then he made you free to
direct it.
For you can
direct the energy inside you, that is created by Allah, to good or evil. You
can walk to the mosque or you can walk to the bar, Allah forbids. That move you
made is not of your own power, but the power of moving is from Allah and you
directed that power to good or to evil.
Your hands
can hold the knife to cut the food to pieces small enough for you to eat. You
can also hold the same knife to kill someone with it. You did not bring the
energy in your hands to do what you did, but that energy has been provided to
you from Allah. You only directed that energy that is provided from Allah to
the hands that are also created by Allah, to do the good or evil.
And the
tongue could say the truth or it could lie, it could witness the right or it could
be wrong about it. It could say a good word or an evil word, but still you do not
own any internal power to make your tongue talk. You only directed that talking energy that
Allah (SWT) provided to your tongue to obey or disobey. The same with all other
organs of your body, that appears to submit to your choice. That choice is
actually not from within yourself, because all those organs do not move according
to your choice, but it moves by the power of Allah (SWT) that He put in them
and you only direct that power to the good or bad.
That is the
scope of choice that Allah gave you. It is limited to directing the energy to
the good or evil, and that is the responsibility that we are accounted for. It
is the Amanah that man bore. Allah (SWT) wanted to create us free to choose and
if it were that Allah did not create us free to choose, we would have not owned
to choose anything. Yet we are only free to choose in the scope of our duty and
from among the divine gifts that Allah (SWT) wanted us to enjoy in our life.
For example we can choose what we like of food, drinks, clothes and other
blessings. But other than that we do not have any power of choice.
To be continued....
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