Selected Course to Understand the Demands of Qur'an
Disclaimer
Whenever you want to pursue the truth and verify anything you hear about Islam, we urge you to please use the only valid and divine source of Islam, Qur'an.
On the authority of an-Nu’man ibn
Basheer (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him) say, “That which is lawful is clear and
that which is unlawful is clear, and between the two of them are doubtful
matters about which many people do not know. Thus he who avoids doubtful
matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honour, but he who
falls into doubtful matters [eventually] falls into that which is unlawful,
like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein.
Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah’s sanctuary is His
prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh, which, if it be
whole, all the body is whole, and which, if it is diseased, all of [the body]
is diseased. Truly, it is the heart.”
We have
pointed out how the freedom granted by Allah to man is represented in the way
man directs the energy created by Allah in his body towards obeying or towards
disobeying, And we have mentioned that Allah (SWT) has given man the ultimate
freedom to direct that energy towards what he wants so that judgment will be
just. At this point we can find some people pausing at the noble verse where
Allah says:
<<And We sent not a Messenger except with the
language of his people, in order that he might make (The Message) clear for
them. Then Allah misleads whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And He is the
All-Mighty, the AllWise>>
Ayah 4 from Surat Ibrahim
And in His saying (TWT):
<<Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides
whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He>>
Ayah 31 from Surat Al-Mudather
And there
are a lot of verses in the noble Qur’an that we are going through in this
chapter and they all confirm that Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides
whom He wills. If that is the truth where the will of Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) is
what leads astray or leads to the right path, then how will the judgment be just?
And do any of us hold anything in his hands against the divine will of Allah (SWT)?
First, we
say that Allah (SWT) has the ultimate power in His universe for all the rulings
of this universe are created by Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) and the creature can never
control the will of his creator. That is why Al-Haqq (SWT) the creator of the universal
laws has breached them for his prophets. He made the fire whose ruling is to
burn, cool and peaceful for Ibrahim (PBUH) and He made the sea with its ruling
to estetraq, splits for Moses (PBUH) and He gave
Eissa (Jesus PBUH) with His own leave the ability to heal those who are born
blind, the lepers and to resurrect the dead. Allah gave all those miracles to
His prophets to strengthen their proclamation of Allah, but He (Azz wa Jall)
did not want to limit the absolute power to his prophets only. For we can see
that absolute power every day in watching the weak having victory over the
strong, or the discriminated having victory over the compelling, or a powerless
person having victory over the powerful.
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.
