My Dear Harissuryamen
assalmoalaikum
I found your point of view on the subject very positive and usefull. In this regard, I am sending you another useful article by Mr Ubed.
I hope the other readers would equally benefit from this discussion on Predestination.
Regards
Bashir Abid
Don't Blame God For Our Failures (Ubedur Rahman Arain)
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| Assalamualaikum! Fate, destiny, luck are all intertwined words that describe an event, or a course of events, that will inevitably happen in the future, as if the course of events is predetermined. Anything that goes against our desires and expectations is attributed to bad luck, as if we had nothing to do with it. Where is human action in all this? It is led to believe that God has pre-ordained all events till eternity and destined some to success and others to failure and how dare one question God's command? Raising your voice against injustices of others is considered as if one is challenging God's Will. I have always considered the Holy Month of Ramadan as a month for pausing and reflection. I have been thinking about this, now, more than ever. I wonder why would God be prejudiced against some and favor others? Are we not all His children? Hasn't He told us in the Holy Quran that there is one and only one God for all mankind? (3:2). Are there lesser Gods? How come when the heavy rains fall in Same is the case of earthquakes. Countries that follow and build in compliance with the Building Codes, survive earthquakes with minimal loss of life, others have disastrous consequences. Only a few years ago, village after Look at the life expectancy of human being. People in the developed countries live much longer than people living in less developed countries. According to the UN projections, the average life expectancy of human beings is 67.2 years while for an average Japanese, the life expectancy is the highest at 82.6 years. In the We have a common belief that the length of life is pre-ordained by God. The question that comes to my mind is why would God fix longer life in the developed countries and less in undeveloped countries? Mind you, this is irrespective of religion or piety of a person. Atheists and non-Muslims of the West live longer than "God fearing Muslims" of the east. For me the answer is very simple. Better health services, better diet and better overall living environment increases their average life expectancy, all in accordance with Laws of Nature that God has created for length of life. Whoever follows those laws, live longer and who does not, have a short life span. One can assume that God has indeed shortened the life of those who go against His rules for life and lengthen the lives of those who follow His rules of life. I believe in one and only God. He is the one who is the Creator and Nourisher of all in this universe (1:1, 2:117). He has made all the Laws that have created us and the same laws are now running this universe by their measures (54:49). Once the world came into being at the Big Bang, the process of creation started as per His Laws and that process continues to-date. The life since that time is tied in Cause and Effect. Whatever happens now is a result of some Cause. This relationship is tied by Laws of Nature that in fact are Laws of God (17:77, 33:38 ). While we can control our actions, we do not control the results of the actions. One can say that the result is the destiny ordained by God and we stay responsible for the cause. Thus the results alone are the destiny, and not the actions. We therefore should look for reasons for our failures within ourselves and not pass the buck. Sooner we start doing this, sooner we can find the answers and control our own destiny. Even God clearly tells us in the Holy Quran (42:30 ) "All your failures are brought about by your own actions". This discussion reminds me of subcontinent' The success is all within our reach. All we need to do is to assume our responsibility and work at it. Ramadan Kareem (For any comments, please feel free to contact the writer on his email address: uarain@gmail. By Ubedur Rahman ArainCEO, Gulf Consult Courtesy: Arab Times, Kuwait - September 24, 2008 |
harissuryamen <harissuryamen@
Peace,
God's Will is a symbol of God's Self-Sufficiency....If we perceive
importance as something that's kept intact, then it seems, to maintain
the law of nature is more significant for God than keeping all
creations to obey God.
If the faith were really so important to God or to reputation of His
glory, why would God give His creations a chance or the choice to
rebel against Him & or to hate Him, whereas He does not let any chance
for the changes of the law of nature?
The facts that God dares to somehow get "hurt" by the sinner's
rebellion, but not allow a little bit of the disharmony in the nature
of Universe, revealed the theologian aspect of "Fatalism", that all of
our choices is predestined, that any rebellion of creations is
actually predestined as well as the law of nature.....
God wills to have predestined our free will & rebellion, as well as
the harmony of nature.
....Further, since nobody can know the real predestination of any
event until it happens, thus how far is the range of that predestination?
In Islam, the idea of fatalism is limited by the forbiddance on
tempting the God: that giving-up ourself solely to the predestination
(without effort & trying) till it occurs, is seen as the sinful &
daring temptation to the God.
The belief in predestination in Islam has 2 aspcets:
1. the giving-up of self without effort is a sin of tempting God.
2. the rejection to accept what already happened accordingly to the
predestination is a sinful rebellion.
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