Everything is predestined. And nothing but a sincere du'a (supplication) can change ones qadr. This is where freewill comes in. Du'a. We human beings are the best creation of Allah because we were made with hearts to feel and minds to think. And since we do not know what the future holds, freewill is making that one single du'a asking Allah that even if everything is already written, to change our qadr write for us Jannah if it wasn't written for us. We must like it so much. We must have intense craving for Jannah. Then if we ask Allah, Allah will start to give. Give what? Guidance. For Allah guides whom He wills and lead astray whom He wills. That is why Allah does not like the arrogant people. Those who think they are too good for making du'a or those who has lost hope with the Mercy of Allah. May we be of those who are guided. Ameen.
Very true .... And the more sure you are of being in Group A , due to human psychology ,the less effort you gonna make for Group B. And this is what's called as "Takwah" . More iman you have less you think you have n vice versa.
"When you put the effort in, then the help comes." That explains it all. There is nothing more you have to do. If you want to get on the list, put the effort in. If you want guidance, put the effort in. If you want to live in a big house, put the effort in to get the money. That goes for everything people aspire to get. I don't understand what the difference is when it comes to hell of heaven. People who complain about pre-destination are either lackadaisical, hate to be taken into account, or just butt-hurt about obligations in religions.
I think the point Nouman is trying to make with his analogy is that effectively no one, not a single soul on this earth knows whether they are making it to Jannah or Jahannam. We do not know If we have done enough or are currently doing enough to ensure we make it to Jannah. You might be on List A or B, you don't know but that's the point 'Allah knows but you don't' and so every day you should do as much as you can to ensure you are at least on List B even though in the back of your mind, you're thinking Inshallah I'm on List A but again you don't know If you are, so you'd be ignorant to just do nothing because you foolishly think 'Nah I'm on List A, my spot in Jannah is already cemented, no point in me doing anything to secure a spot'. For me personally, Inshallah I'm on list A but I don't know If I am, So I'ma do everything I can to make it on List B and If I was already on List A then Alhamdulillah. I think that is what Nouman meant by his analogy.
Ali (r.a.) reported that one day Rasulullah (saw) was sitting with a twig in his hand and he was scratching the ground. Suddenly he raised his head and said: “There is not one amongst you who has not been allotted his seat in Paradise or Hell.” They said: “O Rasul of Allah, then why struggle, why not let everything go and submit?” Thereupon he said: “No, do perform good deeds, for everyone is facilitated in that for which he has been created.” Then he recited this verse: “As for he who gives to the needy and seeks refuge in Allah and confirms the Word of Unity, We will facilitate him toward Paradise. But as for he who withholds and considers himself free of need and denies the Word of Unity, We will facilitate him toward Hell.” (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi)
Ma asabaka min has an at in faminAllah fama asabaka min sayye at in fa Minannafsik but Allah knows in advance what you will choose good or bad this is decree of Allah. Allah knows everything. Allah's knowledge encompasses everything past,present and future.
Farid Qureshi yes that is absolutely right but there should be fault. If there is no fault then one should resort to patience sabr and perseverance and wait for Allah's judgment with sabr.
YOU CAN BE SO DEPRESSED BE A HALF ASS MUSLIM AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE... BUT IF YOUR BAD AND FINALLY YOU ASK GOD FOR HELP, HE WILL GIVE IT ...HE WILL GIVE FIRST EVEN IF YOU DO NOT DESERVE IT OR PUT ANY EFFORT..IT IS MAN'S WISDOM THAT HIS DEPENDENCY IS WITH GOD....FULL GROWN MEN ARE STILL HELPLESS AS A BABY WITH OUT GOD'S HELP
This was a great lecture, thank you for asking some amazing questions. I just wanted to mention that when you asked the last question you asked him advice for the "brothers', please if you can keep in mind to avoid this, I know you didn't mean it, but it makes people think that it is a male dominated culture.
Thank you so much for this nice discussion. The kadhaa and kadar it's a matter of belief that has no thing to do with our life science, however this belief in kadaa and kadar comes after establishing an origin belief which is believeing in Allah and in what Mohammad's message brought. Example: If I give you a showing proof that i can carry up 500kg, this fact makes you believe in my power. Now, what if someone told you that I could carry an elephant. Here surely you will believe in me basing on the origin belief with no need to a another proof (this's called rational proof). Results: The showing proof is the Quran which establishes the origin belief. when the origin belief is built, that leads to accept the second belief that has no need to any proofs. What the purpose of all that?. This's the sound belief that feeds our worshiping to Allah as like as we see him (IHSAN level) with trust, and that what makes the difference between the children of Adam who never seen or talked to Allah and the Angels who has already seen and talked to Allah. For that reason the Angels have been commanded to bow to Adam, and for that purpose exactly the satan has taken us his enemy and we commanded as well in surat Alkahf to take him as our enemy). Final fruit: The real worshippers of Allah from the children of Adam are better than the Angels. Allah said to the Angels in the Quran in surat Albakara " I know what don't know" this's when the Angels didn't realize the wisdom of making Adam and his children as khaleefa in the earth as a test for them where Allah gave them the free will to do what they want (obeying Allah or Obeying the Satan). However the Angels they're ordered to obey to Allah with no free will. Conclusion: Without understanding the whole story of pur creation and our purpose in this life we cannot absolutely realize the wisdom of believing in kadha an kadar.
Maybe there's more to it what we dont understand yet. Predestination is just one of our Beliefs while the Rewards and Consequences are based on out personal choices and deeds aka Free will
Am I correct in my understanding that Pre-knowlege (Omniscience) makes Quadar easy to understand? Christians refer to Romans 8:28. My brother, Mahmoud, in Islam makes so much clear as does Nouman Ali Khan. I, inshallah, will one day be able to read the words, phrases, and sentences. Now I still struggle with the words. I am learning so much from the 2 year Shariah Course. Inshallah, I might even learn to listen much more and speak much less., Alhamdullilah.
Why is there still this search for some external explanation of why people sometimes good things and sometimes bad things? Is it not time to take responsibility for your own actions stop worrying about whether God or any other cosmic invention caused us to act?
1:15 all his slapping example shows is that we do have free will and that therefore the idea that God caused every single one of our actions (Al-Khalq) is unlikely and also unsatisfactory from the point of view him causing horrific atrocities like rapes, killings since that strongly counts against him being merciful and benevolent especially since there will have been events that over a course of a person's life will have caused them to commit associating partners with allah (shirq) and therefore be necessarily be damned to hellfire for eternity. How can God not forgive shirq when he caused all instances of shirq and every human had no option but to commit shirq from the beginning of the universe until now ?
I m researching on this topic but let me answer your first question Allah SWT says in surah mulk that Allah created life and death to test you strongly by your actions. That's why if we go through something bad it is a test Allah is testing us Allah SWT in another ayat in Quran says whatever bad you go through in your life don't grieve about it because it was prewritten by me(I hope I remember it right) Now this statement is a sort of relief because sometimes we blame ourselves if we go through something bad but Allah tells us it was pre written so don't worry urself about it
I dont get it. Umar ra said everything is written so do not worry about what befalls you. And other hadith that say that decree was written thousands of years before we were born?
um well but god already made my destiny before i born that im going to heaven or hell ? god is responsible for all my action even the effort u mention. i have a question, many people around the world die of disease like virus,malaria and etc and human think the causes for this tragedy and made a vaccine,antibiotic and eradicate the disease , death and cure both is responsible is god. if today like eating pork,alcohol,,drugs through human knowledge we can change and make this bad thing into good thing to our body so does it be the sin now??? does god will change the rule ?
lol exactly, if the person you're talking to doesnt believing god, using the slapping analogy doesn't work because they dont believe in gods decree anyway.
Assalamualaikum, how should we as muslims use Quran or Authentic Hadith to answer this question : why didn't Allaah just put everything in heaven without any test in the first place? barakAllaahu fiikum.
Allah did make creatures that are perfect and will go directly to heaven: Angels. THEY ALREADY EXIST. The entire point of our creation was free will. So if you WANT to go to heaven, Allah told you exactly how. The entire purpose of our creation is to be representatives of Allah on Earth (Quran 2:30)--representatives that can CHOOSE and have been given guidance on how to make the right choice. In Islam, pious human beings have a much much higher rank than angels, because humans CHOOSE to do good, while angels have no choice. Also in Islam, we have the belief that every creature was asked before they were created whether they want to be a human being (do good by choice) or an angel (have no choice). Those that chose choice were created as human beings. Also, if there was no such thing as evil, what is the significance of good? We won't even know what good or bliss means. Think of it this way, stars can't shine without darkness. Good or heaven has no significance if there is nothing to contrast it.
@@sarahshahid5154 sister I don't agree with you saying we were asked if to be born as a human or angel because ALLAH SWT says in Quran that he didn't ask us before creating us that's somewhere in the end of surah kahaf I think
Why does 1 study for a better future he doesn't see but he dont wanna b in a bad predicitment same thing we dont see afterlife but gotta prepare for it
First of all, I'm a Muslim and I'm not trying to ram my opinion down anybody's throat. But he basically just evaded the question and didn't explain why and how predestination and free will do not contradict each other. He talks about what you can do with your life but doesn't Qadr mean that even before you're born you have already been alloted a place in either hell or paradise. And as for the analogy in the beginning of the video: If you slap someone you either do it out of free will or because of God's decree. Free will means that God doesn't control you (which is very easy to comprehend) and predestination means that you did not have a choice. Those two things clearly contradict each other but Nouman simply evades addressing that issue but instead beats about the bush trying to clud your vision with analogy that may seem smart and lucod but are not.
You didn't get what he was saying The entire point is, neither you or me knows how Allah (Swt) controls the universe or how these apparent "contradictions" are even contradictions because there are certain unknowns, such as Allah (Swt) being outside of time, being eternal, etc.... We as human beings, first and foremost act upon what is apparent to us regardless of our level of knowledge it doesn't matter if we may be a PhD or a student or an illiterate. For example let's say I told a young high-school student to forget about school and his aspirations for college/university, forget about his dream job or his goals and just stay at home everyday, live off your parents wealth. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS, buy lottery tickets everyday and eventually you will win right? So instead of wasting time studying for the next 10 years, buy lottery tickets for the next 10 years... Most likely, any rational human being will understand this is a recipe for disaster, because they won't risk wasting their life and depending on this one small chance of winning the big prize in the lottery. Life as we know it completely denies this "contradiction" BEING a contradiction, where in history have we seen in a court room, where the judge dismisses a murder charge because there was evidence to suggest it was just "Predestined" ??? NEVER, I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "If he jumps off a cliff, would you do it too?" You have to think about this, if Allah (Swt) has made it so, that we as human beings have this NATURAL understanding in our normal way of life, that we are responsible for OUR OWN actions! So when Allah (Swt) says, He will not judge us unjustly and that it's WE who wrong ourselves why do we question His message and say it's a contradiction? It's not a contradiction at all and if you want to know what I think, if you look at every single human being even though we are all biologically similar. We are the same species, our bodies work the exact same way, when a doctor does surgery they will open us the same way and close us the same way. So how is it that we are all so radically different? Some of us are talented in sports/athletics, others can't even kick a ball without falling over, some of us are very strong in Academics and others can barely read a book or struggle around questions we find to be child's play. The point is, what makes us so different from one another? It all comes from the brain, and this is our essence... When the soul is inserted into us when we are in the Womb, this essence makes us who we are. So we do have FREE WILL in the sense that, this essence that makes us who we are and how we behave is predestined, but the choices we make is the freewill.
What's he's saying is that predestination is the result of your free will that Allah knows before hand. Qadr is the result of what YOU will do, Allah wrote everything based on how much effort YOU'RE willing to put, because Allah knows already. Listen to his party list analogy again.
This is a topic everyone struggles from religious to atheists. I am not convinced at the below explanation myself but maybe you could point out way to fix the flaws: We were determined to choose what we choose to do. So we could not have done it otherwise. But even if the power of God over us was removed from the equation, we would have chosen the same option due to our nature. This nature is fundamental to us and makes us us. Just as a circle with four edges is no longer a circle. God determined our choices in a way so that it matches with what choices we would have made anyway due to our nature which if God changed it, we would no longer be us. At the end determinism is being given precedence here.
Anndd he forgot that god is all knowing. The party analogy makes no sense dice as the party host you can guess who will do stuff for b. This isn’t the case with allah he knows for sure what will he happen. No free will there
But what has Adam said to his rabb after sinning? You planned me to do it, I admit, so please forgive me or I will be amongst the losers. Are you all kidding? Isn't or is it determined, predestined, written or not?
You confused Adam and Satan. Adam said "My Lord, I have wronged myself, and if you dont forgive me and show mercy then surely i will among the Misguided" while satan blamed it on Allah
@@AhmedPathanMA but it is to admit that Allah does as he wishes, right? He made us weak against our desires. Therefore it is up to Allah, at any given point, to act. It is His plan. I believe and I've got proven by Allah's book of truth that everyone will go to paradise. Alhamdulillah and Salam aleikum.
@@muhashartaj Maybe there's more to it we dont understand yet. Predestination is just one of our Beliefs while the Rewards and Consequences are based on out personal choices and deeds aka Free will
He is actually arguing against the existence of god but does not realise this. If you argue that allah knows all things and knew all your actions before he created you, then allh must have intended for those actions to take place...otherwise you are saying that i can carry out an action which allah did not see me doing before he created me...i.e. allah did not really know my actions. In which case he is not all-knowing. So arguing for human free will is actually arguing aaing an all-knowing god.
Maka Ayan actually you are wrong he is arguing that God knew that we were going to make the choices we made not that God made us do that God gave us free will and allowed us to make our decisions and he knew what decision we were going to make
The question is NOT answered: Why would Allah create a human knowing that human will go to the fire (and Allah knows about it before that human is produced)? Allah brought that human to life to fail and be eternally tortured. Allah did that with the intention to torture that human after he dies because Allah knows the future results even before we are born.
I want to hear from a real sheik who is struggling like is normal people! A shiek who cannot marry A shiek who can’t have children A sheik who has financial issues A shiek with a health issue A shiek with a addiction A sheik with really problems Not these everything is handed on a plate easy life sheiks! It’s easy to state like. Robot everything is decreed with everything is perfect for them Everything they want they get
if he knows who are the ones that will not follow guest list b,,then he should not create them in the first place..so according to islam will live in eternal damnation,,its more merciful not to exist at all then this..think about this carefully before responding peace
dayan arias exactly, and to make it worse he also leaves out the fact that along with "guess list a+b" there are other lists floating around that claim to be inviting to the same party. Yet, weve never seen or spoken to the exact person who's throwing the party, so how do we know which "list" is the "actual list"? And if the party planner does not clarify the issue once and for all CLEARLY then how can he fault those who tried but opted for the wrong list?
I don't know about humans but I think God does not have total free will... 1. You can choose to cease to exist by committing suicide (God forbid!)...but God can never cease to exist...come what may... So, how can God be called free? 2. You can choose to leave the path of goodness and start doing bad deeds...God can never ever even wish to do bad deeds.. So how come God has total free will??
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