In all of His actions there is perfect Wisdom. He does
not do anything in vain nor is His action devoid of any
meaning. His actions are Real, All Wise, and All just.
His creatures and their deeds are His creation.
The slave of Allah has real ability, will, choice and
action. Mans ability to move and to believe are actions
that are truly attributed to Him. These actions are
created by Allah Mans movement, standing, sitting etc..
are real actions which Allah decreed, set under His
ability, willed and created them for Him. Mans will and
actions are next to His swt. This is the medium and
straight way of relating the actions of Allah to those of
His creation. This is the course of the salaf us salih
(righteous predecessors).
It stand against two extremes:
1 The
claim made by a sect called Al Jabariyyah-they hold that
the people have no free will and are not responsible for
their actions, rather they are forced like a feather in
the wind.
2.
.Known as Al-qadariyyah-they deny Al-qadar and claim that
an creates his own actions by his own ability and will
making creators other than Allah. That is why the prophet
(sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) called them Majoos
(magians) of this ummah," because the Majoos claim
that Satan created evil and harmful things, making Satan
a creator besides Allah
The medium course is that of Ahlu Sunnah the followers of
as Salaf us Salih. Allah swt has created our actions and
knows them before we do them due to his Perfect Knowledge
but this does not negate that people have free will and
responsible for their actions because Allah does not
force us to choose that action.
Carry on doing (good) deeds for everyone will find easy
to do such deeds as will lead him to his destined place
for which he has been created. So he who is destined to
be among the happy (in the Hereafter) will find it easy
to do the deeds of such people. He swt forsook the wicked
and the evil ones and left them to themselves and did not
help them because they turned away from Him
The slaves stand to Allah Al- qadar has 2 levels:
1. Before the taqdeer takes place, he should seek the
help from Allah, depend upon him and supplicate to him.
2. After the taqdeer takes place. If the taqdeer is
different from what he had worked for (1awful and good)
he should be patient and accept the taqdeer. If the
taqdeer is a favour that conforms with what he had set up
and worked for, then he should be grateful to Allah and
should praise Him for it. If he commits a sinful deed, he
should ask Allahs forgiveness and repent
"But if you persevere patiently and have
taqwa (be pious) then verily this is from the great
matters which you must hold on with all your
efforts." (3:186)
Some people take the Al-qadar as a plea against Allah.
They think its not fair if Allah wanted something to
happen that He punishes us for it. Allah says (which
means)
"Those who took partners (in worship) with
Allah will say, "If Allah had willed, we would not
have taken partners (in worship) with Him... Likewise
belied those who were before them, till they tasted of
our wrath. Say, "Have you any knowledge (proof) that
you can produce before us? Verily you follow nothing but
guess and you do nothing but lie."(6:148)
So Allah warned those who take Al-qadar as a plea against
Him.
"We sent Apostles as
givers of glad tidings and warning, not to let the people have a plea against Allah."(4:165)
"Allah does not burden a soul beyond its capacity." (2::286)
"We showed the humans both ways."
If you have no choice Allah is burdening you with more
than you can bear. So you can change. He swt ordered you to be pious, modest, so
it means you can do this, you cannot say I cant change. You think too much about
the affairs of this dunya. When you leave college or university what you will
further study. Why don't you think about the fire and paradise, why is t that
you think of a certain subject to choose in the world, why don't you say Allah
wrote this for me in the al-qadr? Why do you study medicine and not stay at
home? Why do you only use al-qadr when it comes to hell and paradise? Why is it
that when you are thirsty you move to quench your thirst and when you are
hungry? Why don't you say that Allah will provide or if Allah wills I will then
eat? You work in this life and think before choosing.
You don't take the al-qadr as an excuse when someone hits
you, why then do you get angry? If you punch someone they'll punch you back.