Choice and Deprivation of Choice
We should
be aware of an important point to which Allah (SWT) wanted to draw our
attention and that is the choice we are granted in life is with the power of Allah
and is according to His will. And if He wanted to deprive us that choice, He would
do it because it is granted to us with His own will. That is why Al-Haqq (SWT)
says about Abu Lahab, the uncle of Rasoul Allah (PBUH) and one of the chiefs of
infidelity who had vigorously fought the religion of Allah(SWT):
<<Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab (an uncle of the
Prophet) and perish he! His wealth and his children will not benefit him! He
will be burnt in a Fire of blazing flames! And his wife, too who carries wood
(thorns of Sa’dan which she used to put on the way of the Prophet (PBUH) or use
to slander him). In her neck is a twisted rope of Masad (palm fibre).>>
Surat Al-Masad
Al-Haqq
(SWT) announces in the Qur’an – which is never changed or replaced and that is
brought down upon His messenger (PBUH) to worship Allah by reading it till the
day of Resurrection - that Abu Lahab will die as an infidel and that he will go
to Hell.
So what
would be the case if Abu Lahab have gathered the people and said “Mohammed
mentions in the Qur’an - that he claims to be brought upon him from Allah -
that I will die as an infidel and will then go to hell and here I am saying in
front of you that I witness that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is
His messenger so that you all know that there is nothing sent to Mohammed from
Heaven. Abou Lahab could have said that even out of hypocrisy to destroy the
whole case of the religion.
But Allah
(SWT) defies Abu Lahab in something that is within the scope of choice. And yet
it never occurred to the mind of Abu Lahab, to use this defiance in destroying
the religion that he strongly hated and opposed. Actually a lot of the main
chiefs of infidelity like Abu Soufyan, Khaled ibn AlWaleed, Amro ibn Al’Aas
and others fought Islam strongly but after that they had strong faith in Islam, except for Abu Lahab who rejected Faith
till the last moment of his life.
Al-Haqq
(SWT) wants to draw our attention to the fact that He (Jalla Jallaloh) provided
man with choice and that if He wills to take it away, man will have no power of
choice. That is what happened with Abu Lahab, Allah (SWT) took away choice
partly from him and then placed in his hands a case by which he can destroy the
religion of Allah but he could not do it and it never hit his mind to use it
because in that specific point he did not own the choice.
And so we
find out with the definite proof that Allah gave man the freedom to choose in
what to do and what not to do and that if Allah wills, He can take it away
partly or fully from man.
By that we
reach the point that the deed is from Allah (SWT) nothing happens without His
consent and His will because He (Jalla Jallaloh) alone owns all the elements of
deed. Man’s choice is only in directing the energy that Allah created for him
to do the good or evil. Allah (SWT) gave man complete freedom within the scope
of “Takleef” to do and not to do. Man can be able to go for what Allah forbids
and he can get away from what Allah orders him to do and only within that scope
there is reckoning. Even that freedom of
choice is subject to the will of Allah (SWT), He can take it away fully or
partially whenever He wants. So we should understand that the freedom of choice
is from Allah not from man and that Allah (SWT) wanted to make man free to
choose.
To be continued....
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