While an effect is ascribed to its cause, it is attributable to Allah also. When we ascribe an act to its normal and natural doer, we ascribe it to its non-self-existing agent, and when we attribute it to Allah, we ascribe it to its self-existing agent. It is Allah who endows things with the power…
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The Holy Qur’an says: “It is Allah to leave…
The Holy Qur’an says: “It is Allah to leave in error whom He wills and to guide whom He pleases. He is the Mighty, the Wise”. (Surah Ibrahim, 14:4)… [and many such verses]. But these verses do not deny the intervention of the natural causes. Hence there is no contradiction between them and the other…
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All that a materialist believes is that…
All that a materialist believes is that the more efforts he puts to achieve his objective, the better results he is likely to obtain. But a Muslim having faith in destiny believes that the world has been so arranged that the whole system of causes and effects will come to his aid if he whole-heartedly…
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In the Tuhaf-ul-Uqul Imam Redha (A)…
In the Tuhaf-ul-Uqul Imam Redha (A) is reported to have said: ‘When Allah wants his decree to be carried out, He wrests their thinking power from the people concerned. After the decree has been carried out, this power is restored to each one of them. Then they wonder how it was that such a thing…
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Man has been created free…
Man has been created free. That means that he has been endowed with intellect, will and thinking power. As far as his intentional acts are concerned, he is not like a stone which if dropped from above will automatically fall on the ground under the pressure of the gravity of the earth. Nor is he…
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