08 Cursory Contents of Surah Al Anfaal

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We Bear Witness Against Ourselves - FATE & DESTINY

We Bear Witness Against Ourselves

Then comes a question that is repeated by those who want to doubt Allah’s fairness (SWT) and put despair in the hearts of people so that they would stop their acts of worship. Those people say that if in the knowledge of Al-Haqq (SWT) that a person is among the people of Paradise or among the people of Hell, will not that be sufficient without any need to work on it?

We say to those people that the worldly life is a place of examination for man and there is a difference between the saying and the doing. For a man might say a lot of things that he will not do when the time comes for doing it. For example, a soldier before going to the battle might tell you that he will kill twenty soldiers from the enemy’s side, but when the fighting actually starts he is the first to run away and leave the battle. And also a person might tell you that he will give you a thousand dollars if you do something for him and when the time comes for paying he is stingy and does not give you anything. Al-Haqq (SWT) draws our attention to that in his mighty book and says:

<<And when there came to them (the Jews), a Book (this Qur’an) from Allah confirming what is with them [the Taurat (torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)], although aforetime they had invoked Allah (for coming of Muhammad (PBUH)) in order to gain victory over those who disbelieved, then when there came to them that which they had recognized, they disbelieved in it, So let the Curse of Allah be on the disbelievers>>

Ayah 89 from surat Al-Baqarah

This is regarding the Jewish people for they were telling the infidels from AlMadina that the time has come for a new Messenger that they the Jews would believe and follow and with the Messenger they would kill the infidels in the same way the People of Ad and Thamud were killed. But after the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) was sent, the Jews were the first to reject him and fight him and they plotted conspiracies to kill him.

And the people of Pharaoh asked Moses, (PBUH) and upon our Messenger, to lighten the penalty on them and they promised him Faith and when Allah answered Moses’ call (PBUH) they did not believe and continued to reject. And in that Al-Haqq (TWT) says:

<<But when We removed the punishment from them to a fixed term, which they had to reach, behold! They broke their word!>>

Ayah 135 from surat Al-A’raf

And the noble Qura’n is full of verses that shows us how the non-believers and the hypocrites and others say and promise things and when time comes to fulfill their promises they do not perform them.

So there is a difference between the words and the deeds, and to prevent man from coming on the Day of Resurrection to dispute and say to God that if He had invited him to Faith he would have believed and that if He had sent a Messenger he would have followed him and that if He had asked him to do good deeds he would have done them, there should be a practical test for man to go through so that he would witness against himself on the Day of Resurrection.

In that case man would not come to say that if God had guided him to Faith he would have believed because Guide came to him but he did not follow it and he would not claim that if God had sent a Messenger he would have been the first to help him because Allah had actually sent the Messenger but he was the first to fight him.

So on the Day of Resurrection man should witness against himself and should not dispute at the time of Account because he experienced the practical test and failed it. And that is according to what Allah (Azz wa Jall) says:

<<(It will be said to him): “Read your book. You yourself are sufficient as a reckoner against you this Day”>>

Ayah 14 from surat Al-Isra’

But that test, the test of Faith in the worldly life does not happen because Allah is not knowledgeable or because (SWT) wants to increase his knowledge, for Allah’s knowledge (Jalla Jallaloh) encompasses everything, but that test is only for people to bear witness against themselves.

Exactly in the same way we have exams for the university students, for the university does not do those exams to learn from the students, for it has provided them with the knowledge, but it actually do it so that every student bear witnesses against himself. If a student comes and claims that he did well in the exam, they will get out his answers and he will see that he has failed and cannot then dispute.

Here we reach the point that those people who Allah (SWT) has described them in the noble Qura’n to have hearts that do not understand and eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, they themselves have ruined their own sensing devices and they have not used them in what Allah has created them for. Also man should beware from the whispering of Al-Shytan because if he follows it, then it will move him from the will of Faith to the will of Infidelity, though in both cases he does not get out of Allah’s will (SWT). We also reach the point that this present life, the worldly life is a test for us so that we would bear witness against ourselves and so that we do not come on the Day of Resurrection to dispute but to know that Allah’s knowledge (TWT) encompasses everything.

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Rejected Logic - FATE & DESTINY

Rejected Logic

Saying that Al-Haqq (SWT) did not create for them hearts to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear is not correct, but they unutilized their senses because they do not want to believe so they did not use them and if they have utilized them correctly they would have believed.

But Al-Haqq (SWT) says << And We have made>> that is We have created, for since the origin of creation Al-Haqq (SWT) has ruled that those people are in Hell although by that time they did not do anything yet.

We call that Allah’s Knowledge that encompasses His Universe, for Allah’s knowledge (SWT) has no boundaries and He knew the moment He created them that they are going to be among the people of Hell. And how would some people say that this is a strange thing knowing that Allah’s Knowledge (SWT) includes everything in this worldly life and in the Hereafter. Did not Noah (PBUH) say as mentioned in the Qur’an:

<<And Nuh (Noah) said: “My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers on the earth! If You leave them, they will mislead Your slaves, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers”>>

Ayat 26, 27 from surat Nuh

Who told Noah (PBUH) that those people are infidels and that they will give birth only to wicked and ungrateful generations? He took the wisdom from the earlier signs that he saw in front of him while trying to convey the Message of Allah to his own people whom he had lived among for a thousand year less fifty years (950 years). And Satan (Iblees Al-Shytan) did not he say as mentioned in the Qur’an:

<< [Ibees (Satan)] said: “By Your Might, then I will surely mislead them all, except Your chosen slaves amongst them (i.e. faithful, obedient, true believers of Islamic Monotheism”>>

Ayat 82, 83 from surat Sad

Who told Satan (Iblees - Al-Shytan) that he is going to divert every servant who is unfaithful to Allah (SWT)? Al-Haqq (Jalla Jallaloh) clarified to us that in His saying:

<<And indeed Iblees (Satan) did prove true his thought about them: and they followed him, all except a group of true believers (in the Oneness of Allah)>>

Ayah 20 from surat Saba’

So Satan (Iblees - Al-Shytan) said that by guessing because he felt the acceptance of Adam and Eve to the diversion.

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Unreachable Laws - FATE & DESTINY

Unreachable Laws

Al-Haqq (SWT) wanted to save us from searching for the laws that governs sleep and to let us know that we will not be able to discover it. So Allah (Galla Gallaloh) said

<<It is Allah that takes the souls (of men) at death; and those that die not (He takes) during their sleep; those on whom He has passed the decree of death, He keeps back (from returning to life), but the rest He sends (to their bodies) for a term appointed. Verily in this are Signs for those who reflect>>

Ayah 42 from surat Az-Zumar

So we know that sleep submits to the laws of Al-Barzakh ÇáÈÑÒÎ, and we don’t know anything about the rules of life in Al-Barzakh, except what Allah has informed us about. All what we know about that laws of sleep is that there are things that we can see with and that it is different than the eyes that we use in the day life, and that we can move with something other than our legs that keeps us moving in the day life, and that there are words uttered with what is different than the tongue that we speak with in the day life, and that the world of Al-Barzakh does not rely on the physical senses that is totally idle during sleep. Actually we have other senses that we use in the world of Al-Barzakh and that world just like sleep does not have any human choice or any feel of the time and in that world we meet with people who have left this life and moved to the mercy of Allah before us, just as we meet them in our sleep world.

Allah (SWT) gave us all that in mercy of our minds and to know that there are things existing in the unseen that we know nothing about so that the image of the world of Al-Barzakh gets closer to our minds and also to know that moving from the day life to the life of Al-Barzakh can happen in a moment and then we can understand the meaning of what Rasoul Allah (PBUH) said:

“By the witness of Allah you are going to die in the same way you sleep and you are going to be resurrected in the way you wake up”

By now we have agreed that the human choice in life is not absolute choice, but a limited one and we have explained how man cannot choose the time and place of his birth, his parents, nationality, sex, homeland, how he looks, the color of his eyes and hair and many others. He also can not choose the time of his death and he does not choose anything in his sleep which actually narrows down the area of choice that will get much more narrower as we proceed in specifying the choice that Allah gave to his servants.

                                               

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