Allah’s Encompassing Knowledge
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.
To be continued....
