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 Ibn Abbas (may
Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him) said:
Verily Allah has pardoned [or been
lenient with] for me & my ummah: their mistakes, their forgetfulness, and that
which they have been forced to do under duress.
A hasan hadeeth related by Ibn Majah,
and al-Bayhaqee and others.
If we look
at the normal human; for example if you see that your son is not studying and
is careless about his classes, you will say to him that he will not pass his
exams and definitely he will not. Did you know the unknown future then? Or had
you concluded that from the facts around you. And the same with the teacher who
explains the lessons to a class of 20 students and says that only ten of the
twenty students are going to pass the exams and actually only ten students
pass. Does this teacher predict the future? Or did he judge them by evaluating
their work in class.
If that
happens with the humans who are Allah’s creation with their limited knowledge
and weak power, do you think that it is hard for Allah (SWT) and He is the
Creator and the All Knowing to know by fact that some of his own creatures are
in Hell. If the Creatures of Allah could guess some predictions that turn out
to be true, would not Allah’s knowledge (SWT) reach definite conclusions by
surety? Of course it does and Allah (SWT) knows by surety. This is confirmed by
what He (Jalla Jallaloh) says:
<<Should not He Who has created know? And He is the
Most Kind and Courteous (to His slaves), All-Aware (of everything)>>
Ayah 14 from surat Al-Mulk
Allah’s
knowledge is beyond our power and beyond all the knowledge that we could
possibly have. That is why it is easy for Allah (SWT) to know the destiny of His
creatures. But some people would stop at the words of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Al-Hadith Al-Nabawy
(A man amongst you acts like the
people deserving Paradise until between him and Paradise there remains but the
distance of a cubit, when suddenly the writing of destiny overcomes him and he
begins to act like the denizens of Hell and thus enters Hell…..)
So how
would the judgment be just when someone who is performing the deeds of the
dwellers of Paradise until he becomes very close to entering it and then he
stops doing that as it is pre-destined for him and he ends to be among the
people of Hell. And how would one of us doing the deeds of the dwellers of Hell
because of his destiny turns out to be among the people of Paradise. For if it
is already written in the book it seems as if entering Paradise or Hell is
already pre-destined irrespective of what he does because the book has already
changed the consequences of his actions. Those words are spoken a lot and is
taken as an excuse for those who have transgressed on themselves and want to
blame others for what they do or want to say that it is out of their hands and
it is already pre-destined for them, the same as the Pagans say as Al-Haqq
(TWT) clarified to us in the Qur’an. He (SWT) says:
<<Those who took partners (in worship) with Allah
will say: “ If Allah had had willed, we would not have taken partners (in
worship) with Him, nor would our fathers, and we would not have forbidden
anything (against His will)”>>
Ayah 148 from surat Al-An’am
The Pagans
who are associating partners (in worship) with Allah, by saying that wants to
throw the responsibility of their faults on the will of Allah (SWT). We tell
them, yes you have not been out of Allah’s will as we have already shown that
those who believe and those who disobey are both not out of Allah’s will. The
one who believed entered the will of Faith and so Allah helped him to the way
of Guidance and he endeared Faith to him and he will end to be in Paradise. And
the one who expiated and associated partners with Allah (We seek refuge from
Allah to protect us against that – wal ‘uiaz be Allah) entered the will of
Infidelity. Allah (SWT) has not helped him to guidance and has left him for the
devils (Al-Shyatin) to send him astray. So neither the believer nor the infidel
has walked out of Allah’s will.
Allah (SWT)
has an actual intention in His universe and because that intention is surely
befalling, no one can withstand it. And He (Jalla Jallaloh) also has a prescribed intention in His universe, in the religion that He has established for the
people. In that prescribed intention of Al-Haqq (SWT), He gave man the freedom
to obey or to disobey. He gave them the freedom to follow or to withstand, and
that prescribed intention in what to do and not what to do is what the servants
of Allah withstand. But no one can ever withstand the actual intention in the
deeds that take place in Allah’s universe, For that when you read what Al-Haqq
(SWT) says:
<< And as for Thamud, We showed and made clear to
them the Path of Truth (Islamic Monotheism) through Our Messenger, (i.e. showed
them the way of success), but they preferred blindness to guidance>>
Ayah 17 from Surat Fussilat
Allah (SWT)
showed Thamud the way to guidance and made it clear for them, but they
preferred to disobey and withstood following Allah. Everyone can do the same
through Allah’s will (SWT) by which He has created man free to choose how to
apply the law of Allah (Shar’e Allah) or how to follow the path of sins. Allah
(SWT) being merciful on us has clarified to us the consequences of following
the way of guidance as well as the consequences of following the wrong path. It
is His mercy (Jalla Jallaloh) that He made the key to Heaven and the key to
Hell in our own hands. It is every one’s choice to walk the way of Heaven by
having Faith in Allah (SWT) or to walk the way to Hell by disobeying Allah (SWT).
Allah (TWT)
clarified to us what He is doing to those who take the road of Faith and to
those who take road of sins and infidelity. For every one who reached the road
of Faith and got what Allah has promised him, has got the will of Allah fulfilled
in him. And everyone who chose the road of sins and infidelity and got what
Allah has warned him, has also got the will of Allah fulfilled in him. The faithful
will not get away from Allah’s will and the same with the wrong doer, he will
not get away from Allah’s will. And the judgment in both cases is just, because
man chooses with his free will the way to go, whether it is the way of belief
or the way of sins and that is after Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) has clarified to him
the consequences of taking each way.
