Free will vs Determinism | Sh. Hamza Yusuf
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- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf discusses the concept of free will and determinism in Islam, which is an impenetrable aspect of theology that all Abrahamic religions grapple with. Evidence for determinism is high, but we are still moral agents responsible for our actions. How is this possible? This is a secret of God, He did not reveal it to mankind.
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If you did something wrong and you’re able to see it after some time and realized it was wrong, know that it was meant to happen. Now repent to God, seek His forgiveness and know that He is the MOST merciful. The problem isn’t in the sinning, it’s in not acknowledging our imperfections in relation to God and turning back to Him in repentance. God loves the sinner that repents
So a man who rapes children just needs to repent each time and Allah makes him keep doing thr same crime but he chooses to repent each time? Why did Allah SWT write that this man would keep raping children?
The child is father (teacher ) of the man.
One thing I could not understand in Islam is that we are taught that our destiny is already predetermined. Later on I realized that if our Creator did not know our future then He will not be All-knowing. This is a crucial attribute of the Creator. Then I got the answer from my little granddaughter when she was still a toddler. The first thing she used to do when she came to my house was to run to the staircase and climbed up the stairs and I had to follow her lest she fell down the stairs. So as an elderly person I knew her habits. Then I realized that the fact that I knew what she was going to do does not mean that I instigated her to go up the staircase. So my knowledge did not have anything with her actions which were motivated by her own volition. Then I realized that similarly the Creator's knowledge is not the motivator of our actions. He has given us freewill yet He knows what we will do since He is all knowing. Just as I could have have penned down what my little granddaughter would do before she actually does it, similarly the Almighty could get our destiny written down before we actually live it. So my granddaughter taught me one of the most complex mystery of life.
We are in a world where we are being tested constantly as Allah Ta'ala mentioned :
ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَٱلْحَيَوٰةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًۭا ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٢
˹He is the One˺ Who created death and life in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Almighty, All-Forgiving.
A child is not mature enough to be aware of dangers. So you will try to protect him from such dangers. However, an adult has been given intellect and freewill to choose between right and wrong. If he chooses wrong he has none to blame but himself.
Your reasoning is like the example of the examiner whenever he sees the student committing a mistake in his examination papers he corrects him on the spot in the examination room. Then this is not an examination and the examiner's intervention defeats the purpose of the examination.
Quran 16:9
"And had He willed He would have led you all aright".
Allah did not want to use His will. He sent us to use our freewill that he has endowed us with.
I swear to Allah that this is one
Of the most insightful things I’ve ever read in the internet. Allah protect you and your house hold ❤️
unfortunately your example doesn't work... you don't know what your granddaughter is going to do you can merely predict it with a possibility of being wrong... this is okay and can be used to say free will exists...
The issue lies with an all knowing God that cannot be wrong before the action takes place... if you knew what your grand daughter was going to do before she does it and your knowledge can not be wrong even 0.0001% then your granddaughter has no choice but to do exactly what you know she will... even if she thinks she has choice she really doesn't because your knowledge supercedes it before the action took place.
@@AZZ859
Knowledge of what one will do is not the motivator of his actions.
@@mmmukhtar9242 it is if God is the one initiating the whole process... if you are a simple bystander but you know 110% what will happen next then u can argue you didn't motivate that person's action... but if you are the reason that person even exist ie you created them... then you are to blame because you created them and put them into existence despite knowing every action they will do even if they think they have free will you know they really don't... if you hadn't created them you could've avoided the actions that followed but you chose to create them so you are now held responsible
@@AZZ859 And it is Allah’s Will to lighten your burdens, for humankind was created weak.
It is like someone trying to contain the ocean within a cup. How we, a weak creature, can comprehend the work of our Creator who is boundless and limitless. Our brains are a speck within a speck of dust, our body. Can a car comprehend the plan of its maker?
Peace.
When I was in a *deeply* depressed state, I used to struggle with this.
Then, it hit me:
God Creates all the options & consequences (i.e. algorithms); we have the *freedom to choose* (from all the available options).
I like to use the analogy of a buffet; there are allll those options to *choose* from.
Sure, the options are literally exponential, but (regardless of) how the body will respond to what we have chosen, it's all going to the same place.
And, yes, the chef is aware of all that 😳😁
(& God *Absolutely* Knows Best)
(((Peace)))
Nice explaination. Mashah ALLAH.
God bless you dear ❤❤❤
We have free will but we don't have complete free will. #One statement
Yeah, we don’t have absolute free will, we are free choice on the options God presents us with
I have the will
@@mt000mp and that will is not completely free
@@physicsstudent3176 i have the power to disagree.
@@mt000mp to some extent yes.
But that is what i am trying to say. Events which is going to happen in your life is out of your free will your free will has nothing to do with that ..... events that will happen to you are predestined those events will happen no matter what. And you don't know nothing about it.
Very clear, great video.
So because God has ultimate knowledge and everything he does is the predestined Ultimate Reality he decided he has knowledge of that what we would ultimately do so he is merely showing us in this life what we're doing but he is powering it and he is the one to generate it but it is ours ultimately. He does this because when judgement day comes we cannot blame him
“If it is in Allah’s hands whether I’m guided or not, I’m not going to bother” - so it was Allah had already decided this person will not be guided.
“I don’t quite understand freewill and predestination, but I will leave it to Allah because I believe in Him.” So it was Allah had decided this person will be guided.
It is still on you to decide. Allah already knows what is in your heart, and as such He facilitates it to manifestation.
The example of Khidr, the boy and the believing parents is an amazing example.
I can't say the question was actually answered.. the question was if the view of qadar is that everything including wills are decreed by Allah, how can it be just that the soul bears responsibility for what is outside its control. The answer given here that it's a coming together of both wills begs the question, are people co-creating the will with Allah.. both Athari and Salafi will say no. Hence the paradox is still unsolved. There cannot be 2 simultaneous efficient causes for an effect.. unless somehow one is saying that one of those causes i.e. the human, is a necessary agent of the creative effect (which is clearly being denied, creative agency only being ascribed to Allah). And if one argues the human controls its will, then the proper exposition of the ayah was not provided since the Ayah appears to state the human will is not an independent agent
This question cannot be answered unless you are to accept the inability to comprehend it. Or, you are to deny the existence of an omniscient God, or, you are to deny the free will of human beings.
@@criterion9801 Funny how we are quick to accept such a non-answer yet we criticize the Trinity. The Trinity was enforced under the weight of law and qadar was quite similar. Those who proposed other ideas in both religions were systematically eliminated. As for foreknowledge, I suspect in that era it may have been difficult to understand time at a deeper abstract level.. and so the orthodox opinion was settled in a paradoxical way... now we defend it and accept it cannot be explained rather than actually develop it to resolve the paradox which would require intellectual courage.
Last but not least, we must acknowledge that people tend to fill in 'blanks' ie unresolved issues with the pre-existing biases. This is of course how so many Israeeliyaat were incorporated into tafsir. People became aware of this particular bias (rightfully so, as many Israeeliyat are problematic on their face).. but there has not yet been a reckoning of the creep of Zoroastrian ideas into Islam, including the idea that every year there is a night where divine will is decreed but humans are still ultimately responsible for being good or evil, sound familiar?
@@Raistlin7070 I agree with you. I am also aware that muslims too easily criticise the trinity. But I see no way to resolve those issues. I am ready to think about those things deeply. However, I am also afraid of myself to come to conclusions which oppose Islam's fundamentals. But if we are not accept certain things as they are, then everything falls apart. For instance, how can God be one? If the concept of quantity is created, how can we attribute it to God? Is God not unlike anything existing? Although I am a muslim, Christianitiy's trinity does seem to solve that problem. It says three but one. And that confusion shows the inability to grasp Him. Yet the Quran also argues that saying God has a son also degrades him to human level, or, at least it becomes shirk. I admire your endeavour not to easily submit to ignorance. However, I also sense that there is a certain arrogance in it. Iblees also reasoned that he is superior to Adam. Sometimes, blind obedience or humbleness is needed after a certain amount understanding.
@@criterion9801 The Quran does mention ahad as opposed to wahid, if you dive into that it will resolve the question of one-ness.
It's a good reminder to protect from arrogance, for however much we know it will always fall short of the ultimate reality of things.. that said, if the answer is to not tackle mysteries or even frank contradictions head-on, knowledge and understanding would cease to progress, nor would Muslims have any claim to da'wa on the basis of reason and logic. It is better to leave the individual to search within for whether they are arrogant or they simply have arrived at a different conclusion.. every scientist that produced something contrary to the prevailing understanding was accused of arrogance. Something to think about.
I don't think the answer here is to not criticize the Trinity.. the answer is to have courage to analyze without bias and uncover whatever truths we have access to and what we do not, we search in earnest and trust in Allah
*I can't say the question was actually answered.. the question was if the view of qadar is that everything including wills are decreed by Allah, how can it be just that the soul bears responsibility for what is outside its control.*
so if god's will is for a human to will to control something, then you are saying the human that controlled something is bearing responsibility for not controlling that thing, contradiction. the statement - what was willed states that the human controlled it. So you're wrong.
god wills a human to will something.
Now you are saying the human is bearing something that it didn't control.
You are wrong because the statement itself affirms the human willed it. How can it be that the human willed it yet it is outside it's control?
let's say god willed for human to open a box.
Now you will say "it's not the human's fault he opened the box, god made it happen" Well, that would be incorrect because the sentence itself says the human opened the box.
No scholar circles the whole subject of free will and the real issue of the Destiny of man except one scholar and he is in Alsham Damascus. He connects all the dots.
explain more please. what he says?
@@chessgo5028 Who do you mean by " he"???
@@samiware1704 the scholar who is in Alsham Damascus
@@chessgo5028 He says and makes us feel that God the Almighty knows the end of every single man alive. But this knowledge doesn't mean that it is over yet, as long as humans are alive. He the Almighty is pretty much looking forward to seeing our hearts repenting and returning to him in every moment so it is a matter of here and now communication with his majesty. As for the disbelievers He the Almighty is calling them to repent and will be delighted when they positively respond to his call. So God being hopeful and looking forward to hearing from human beings doesn't mean that he doesn't know the end of each one of us but this end is not over yet. If we change he changes.
@@samiware1704 But doesn't Allah know we are going to change something? why he waits for anything at all? for any changes? he is the one who knows everything including possible deviations from the path/ destiny.
can anyone point me to the surah and aayah please
Quran is Allah's final revelation to mankind " whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers. " Quran 3 : 85
One idea just came to mind about 'interpreting' free will occuring together with determinism. Correct or not, I'm not one to say but here's my hypothesis.
Present consciousness isn't necessarily at the same 'point' in time for everyone. To explain, everyone is conscious only in their present time, no one can ever be conscious currently in their past nor in their future. But _where_ your personal consciousness 'is' in time may and can very well differ from one or every other person. In otger words, one's consciousness may be 'present' in _my_ future or past. So if that's the case, my future is deterministic from their point of view because I'm in their past that has already happened, but *my* free will is intact in _my_ present.
Looking at it this way, free will is to each their own present consciousness, but deterministic because it all plays out the same way from any ome's point of view.
Now, take God who would know of all things and I hope you can see how free will and determinism _may_ coencide. And God only know best.
The problem lies is the translation of words MaSha and insha.
I prefer the translation "Allow" rather than "Will" in some places beacuse Will has an implied desire component.
So Qadar is what one is endowed with (hardware, software) and within the patameters of thos allowance man has free will to make decisions. Imagine a Sphere. The walls are the Qadar and the room/space inside is the free will of man. Everyone's test is inside the sphere. Some spheres are big (bill gates elon musk with much money and many opportunities and resources to seek the truth) and their accountability will be long while others are small with little accountability.
I think i would agree most with Attari based on your description.
I agree with you in the slightly confusing translation which has already within it preconceived notions.
That being said, I'm going to copy and paste what I just replied to someone else before seeing your comment. Lmk if it makes sense:
- My comment pasted:
That's exactly how free-will/deterministic questions are answered...because there simply is no answer.
It's a paradox that exists for all of humanity regardless of the religion they believe in. No human mind can rationalize the unfathomable.
You're looking for an answer because your understanding is infantile and you think such a dichotomy can be reconciled.
That's why it's a paradox. It will forever be a paradox as long as humanity dwells on this planet in this material realm...a realm which by it's very virtue confines the limits by which rationality may reach.
Just like you cannot "describe" the experience of your perception of the color "Red" to a blind person.
That which cannot be encapsulated exists in a condition "higher," or "outside of," or "beyond the confines of" than that which is trying to encapsulate it.
Peace be with you.
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Anyways I also wanted to add in regards to this comment of yours, Athari has nothing to do with what you described.
Both parties see it the same way, for practical purposes.
@@snakejuce yea im not too well versed on the different sects aqeedah but i just focus on what Quran says. For example if one thinks Insha means Will then when Musa told "Khizar" Insha-Allah you will find me patient, Allah desired him to fail.
But if you take the translation as "Allows" then Musa is to blame for not being patient and Allah is free of blame.
Most people have a problem with Qadar when it comes to being born in a non-muslim house. That gives them a automatic disadvantage. The way i counter that thought is by proposing there is no gurantee even for a muslim-born child to pass the test (recall the Hadeeth regarding first 3 people to enter Hell are all Muslims--a mujahid, a scholar, a charitable). Moreover, anyone who does 2 things will Insha-Allah be guided.
A) avoid Addictions (including evidence-less cultiral feel-good non-sense like Diwali, Santa cluse, Christmas, Grave worship, Rabinic customs, alcohol, tobaccoo, dopamine hits, sugar/carbs etc)
B) avoid Escapisms (such as music, movies, tv, women, time wasting friends "hanging out," culture, entertainment, fantasies etc)
If a serious human avoids these he/she will get back on Fitra and Insha-Allah their pursuit of evidence-based knowledge will get them to Truth.
Their battle/sesrch is more difficult but thats why their rewards are multiplied.
Unfortunately most people are too stuck to their Diwali, Christmas, Santa, gifts, Holi, Meelads, Labron, Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, Sharuk Khan, Super models etc etc. They will be ALLOWED to go astray till death comes to them.
Unfortunately even the scientists who study the Signs of Allah are too addicted or run to Escapisms when the Truth is reminded them (Death, Miracle planet, Originator and Grand design, Holy Book, Prophet)
@@A.--. Agreed.
What is the incident of the lady being killed in the Masjid
Too much knowledge is difficult to convey and getting clarity from it is an art of a master. Pray that Sheikh can explain things in simple terms.
I believe he did mention that even mathematicians, scientists are leaning towards deterministic. input, process, output. Ingredients to make a cake, will produce a cake, not mysteriously become a fried rice. And guess what, even our thinking process is based on external factors such as education, family or culture we live in. It is not coming from nowhere. And we dont take action randomly, like "I dont know why I suddenly did that." :-D wallahualam brother.
Yes because he did not do so here 🧐😤😱🤯
You shouldn’t seek to learn on YT. Seek a teacher, institution or course. Then follow their methodology, whilst also seeking purity of soul and living the sacred law
Apparently, Al-Ashari رضي الله عنه offered this solution (to translate into layman's terms): If a waiter puts a cookie on a table and says 'you may have this cookie free of charge', he has provided the right conditions for you to take a free cookie, and he knows that you will take the cookie.
You then take the cookie (you want a cookie). You have actively made the decision to take the cookie yourself, but the waiter hasn’t forced you to take the cookie.
So if someone commits a punishable crime, has the person made the decision to commit that crime just as you took the cookie? Yes.
The 'higher power' knew that you'd commit the crime and offered the correct conditions, but ultimately you are responsible for making the choice.
example doesn't work... the waiter doesn't know you will take the cookie they merely predict it but they can be possibly wrong... in gods case he cannot be wrong so you're actually bound to take the cookie no matter how much free will you think you have... his knowledge came before your action and his knowledge cannot be wrong.
@@AZZ859 Assuming the laws of physics as we understand it applies, the record would be the probability dimension in super string theory.
So you have 3 space dimensions X,Y,Z then Time then all possible actions you would do. You choose which action.
In other words you have a cup of milk in your hand the choices you have are:
1. Drink it.
2. Not drink it.
Both recorded but your choice cements your path.
@@AZZ859 How are you 'bound' to?
@@-Ahmed8592 because if God decides you will eat chicken tomorrow no matter how hard you use your free will to eat beef you are bound by gods foreknowledge to eat chicken
Why do people accept impenetrable claims ? , wel I think they are afraid of being punished for it by God, if they reject it. The fear of Hell is deeply ingrained.
exactly
False claim, shows your insecurities
@@chadmuslims Ironically Muslims who are the most insecure people call others insecure.
this man spoke for 10minutes without even answering the question... ma shaa Allah
That's exactly how free-will/deterministic questions are answered...because there simply is no answer.
It's a paradox that exists for all of humanity regardless of the religion they believe in. No human mind can rationalize the unfathomable.
You're looking for an answer because your understanding is infantile and you think such a dichotomy can be reconciled.
That's why it's a paradox. It will forever be a paradox as long as humanity dwells on this planet in this material realm...a realm which by it's very virtue confines the limits by which rationality may reach.
Just like you cannot "describe" the experience of your perception of the color "Red" to a blind person.
That which cannot be encapsulated exists in a condition "higher," or "outside of," or "beyond the confines of" than that which is trying to encapsulate it.
Peace be with you.
@@snakejuce it's not a paradox, it's either one or the other but you can't insist on both of them and then say oh well it's a paradox our minds can't comprehend. It really looks one sided in the sense that it's all deterministic and that can be fathomable... people just don't want that to be the answer because then religion becomes useless
@@AZZ859 do not speak with ignorance
If you want answer, become an awliya
@@snakejuce thus claiming that both (predestiny and free will) are true is not a correct claim. and islam is based on an incorrect claim.
@@AZZ859 You're black and white thinking is so far simplistic that you have condensed an issue that philosophers, secular or otherwise, have wrestled with for millenia.
And going off of your "argument" that is false.
There is the compatibilist view of free-will/determinism. A view that most Muslims hold. See Imam Ghazali for examples on this.
Now had you known that, maybe you wouldn't have spoken the way you did with ridiculous facile generalizations about a concept that is clearly beyond you.
The doctrine of 'Adl( justice) in the words of Al Qadi Abd al-Jabbar: It is the knowledge that God is removed from all that is morally wrong (qabih) and that all his acts are morally good (hasana). This is explained by the fact that you know that all human acts of injustice (zulm), transgression (jawr), and the like cannot be of his creation (min khalqihi). Whoever attributes that to him has ascribed to him injustice and insolence (safah) and thus strays from the doctrine of justice. And you know that God does not impose faith upon the unbeliever without giving him the power (al-qudra) for it, nor does he impose upon a human what he is unable to do, but he only gives to the unbeliever to choose unbelief on his own part, not on the part of God. And you know that God does not will, desire or want disobedience. Rather, he loathes and despises it and only wills obedience, which he wants and chooses and loves. And you know that he does not punish the children of polytheists (al-mushrikin) in Hellfire because of their fathers' sin, for he has said: "Each soul earns but its own due" (Qur'an 6:164); and he does not punish anyone for someone else's sin because that would be morally wrong (qabih), and God is far removed from such. And you know that he does not transgress his rule (hukm) and that he only causes sickness and illness in order to turn them to advantage. Whoever says otherwise has allowed that God is iniquitous and has imputed insolence to him. And you know that, for their sakes, he does the best for all of his creatures, upon whom he imposes moral and religious obligations (yukallifuhum), and that He has indicated to them what he has imposed upon them and clarified the path of truth so that we could pursue it, and he has clarified the path of falsehood (tariq l-batil) so that we could avoid it. So, whoever perishes does so only after all this has been made clear. And you know that every benefit we have is from God; as he has said: "And you have no good thing that is not from Allah" (Qur'an 16:53); it either comes to us from him or from elsewhere. Thus, when you know all of this you become knowledgeable about justice from God.
No body can answer this question but very few admit it.
If Allah created us from nothing and he new everything about what is going to happen to us, and particularly if I am going to hell or heaven, then he can't put all the responsibility on me. actually he is 100% percent responsible for everything that is happening to me. because he could chose to create me differently when he was creating me, because at that moment he new what is going to happen to me. this is one aspect of this issue
the second aspect; If Allah is knowing everything that is going to happen, then yes may be I am not acting the way I am acting because he knows it, but rather he knows everything because it is predetermined, and I am behaving like I am behaving because it is predetermined. then I have no real choice.
bottom line: if it is predetermined I have no choice, But If I have choice then it is not predetermined and no body can know what will happen even the Allah himself. otherwise I don't have a choice only an illusion of choice.
for example if in the "Destiny" it is written that I will choose Apple over Pear, then if Destiny is legit then I will chose Apple no matter what, even if I think that I did the choice myself. if for some reason I chose Pear then this will mean that written Destiny is faulty, which according to islam can't happen, thus I will definitely chose apple and I have no choice to do otherwise.
an impenetrable aspect of theology that all Abrahamic religions???
WHEN STILL A TEENAGER, IN THE 1960S, IT TOOK ME JUST A FEW SECONDS TO PENETRATE AND UNDERSTAND IT!!!
Do you have autism?
@@chadmuslims
And you have donkeyism!
@@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY who let you use the internet, you lying old fraud
I thought about the answer extensively and my take is this - I feel the question is less about free will and more about the fairness of god to humans.
Let's assume god has a computer with infinite power. Lets say for each human he created infinite universes and did infinite iterations to find the universe where a human made the maximum repentance he would ever have.
Then, If he, as the all knowing and all powerful, then created our present universe where every human had the most number of repentance it would ever have in every possible existence and still failed to go to the heavens, would that be unfair? Could the humans complain then on the day of judgement about fairness? I think not.
I think that would be god being the most merciful and compassionate.
Yeah you can formulate it this way, using modern physics’s many world interpretations (which is just a hypothesis by the way)
hiii
This is the best definition of false propaganda
You are a false propaganda
He didn't answer this direct answer addressed to him. No body can actually. They will just fill you with bla bla bla. Something from history, something from taxonomy, ... But no answer.
He already said there is no answer to this fundamental paradox.
Calm down sweetheart, chill your arrogance for two seconds, you may actually learn something.
He merely elucidated some of the opinions from the greatest minds on this paradox.
And a paradox doesn't have an "answer"
The fact that you are arrogant enough to assume there is some sort of "answer" to this concept that transcends beyond the realm of the human condition and capacity, is laughable.
Why do you think you deserve an answer
@@chadmuslims Because I am looking for the answer for a long time, for more than 10 years. I even became an Ex-muslim because of this question. No body can answer this question but very few admit it.
If Allah created us from nothing and he new everything about what is going to happen to us, and particularly if I am going to hell or heaven, then he can't put all the responsibility on me. actually he is 100% percent responsible for everything that is happening to me. because he could chose to create me differently when he was creating me, because at that moment he new what is going to happen to me. this is one aspect of this issue
the second aspect; If Allah is knowing everything that is going to happen, then yes may be I am not acting the way I am acting because he knows it, but rather he knows everything because it is predetermined, and I am behaving like I am behaving because it is predetermined. then I have no real choice.
bottom line: if it is predetermined I have no choice, But If I have choice then it is not predetermined and no body can know what will happen even the Allah himself. otherwise I don't have a choice only an illusion of choice.
for example if in the "Destiny" it is written that I will choose Apple over Pear, then if Destiny is legit then I will chose Apple no matter what, even if I think that I did the choice myself. if for some reason I chose Pear then this will mean that written Destiny is faulty, which according to islam can't happen, thus I will definitely chose apple and I have no choice to do otherwise.
If you are a typical Muslim please ignore this, as you are not going to get it. Just believe in what you believe.
@@chessgo5028 Omg dude you're soooo cool. You have transcended the "typical muslim" who is allegedly a blind sheep only grazing where it's master tells it to...
Get off your high horse kiddo.
You could have simply said "We don't really Know" and saved me/everyone the 10 minutes long answer. Some humility won't hurt wallahi!
He answered by the way: that we believe in free will and that we are held accountable....
If sheikh Hamza is not humble i don't know who is...lol
If you listen at the start he does say that, so be fair to the man
No scholar circles the whole subject of free will and the real issue of the Destiny of man except one scholar and he is in Alsham Damascus. He connects all the dots.
Wow your time is so valuable the whole economy will collapse now for the loss
You have the will to decree some power into saving your own time , this is the rabbithole of anxiety that you have leaped into. Uncertainty.
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If you want to preserve your emaan and correct aqeedah according to the Quran and preserved sunnah - don’t listen to Hamza Yusuf. Sorry to disappoint the fans. Take your blindfold off and look into it.
Says the one with TH-cam and google Islamic “knowledge”
Zorastrians people of the book 5:32
Too much philosophy and sufism in this man's answer.
Audobillah.
Everything in this world, whatever was and whatever will be, Allah has decreed it in the record with Him. He knew it and He willed it to happen. This is al-qadar (the divine decree) with its four stages: writing, knowledge, willing, then creating it and bringing it into existence.
Allah, says,
{Indeed, all things We created with predestination} [al-Qamar 54:49]
{And with Him are the keys of the unseen, none knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there within the darknesses of the earth and no moist or dry [thing] but that it is [written] in a clear record} [al-An‘am 6:59]
{No disaster strikes upon the earth or among yourselves except that it is in a register before We bring it into being - indeed that, for Allah, is easy} [al-Hadid 57:22]
{And you do not will except that Allah wills - Lord of the worlds} [at-Takwir 81:29].
Muslim (2653) narrated that ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘As said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say: “Allah decided the decrees of creation fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth. He said: And His Throne was [already] above the water.
This divine decree cannot be changed, in the sense that if Allah has decreed that so and so will die as a believer or as a disbeliever, or that he will live a happy or wretched life, or he will be blessed with ten children, for example, that cannot be changed, because if it were possible to change it, that would be casting aspersions upon the knowledge, Will and Might of Allah. Rather whatever Allah wills happens and whatever He does not will does not happen.