Belief Qadar....

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Assalamu alaykum brother and sisters in Islam...

Qadar.. The Arabic word means Devine Measure with which Allah has ordained and decreed with exact calculations for ev erything in creation,according to His Eternal Omniscience and His Sublime Wisdom that ecompasses eternity.

   Faith and belief in Qadar comprises four aspects:

1. The belief that Allah has knowledge of everything in the universe with all the minute details of its occurrences in the time and space.This perfect and complete knowledge encompasses all of Allah's own acts and all actions of the creatures.

2. Everything that is preordained is written on  "al-Lawh-al-Mahfoodh" (The Preserved Tablets) which is with Allah.Allah The Most Exalted said:

Do you not know that Allah knows what is in the heaven and earth? Indeed, that is in a Record. Indeed that, for Allah , is easy.The Holy Quran 22:70

In Saheeh Muslim, we  find the report of Abdullah ibn'Amr aibn al'Aas (RA) who narrated that he heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say:

Allah recorded the measurement of all matters pertaining to creation fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and earth.

3. The belief that nothing can exist or happen except by the Will and Permission of Allah, and this includes what pertains to His action as well as to actions of all that He created. Allah the Most Exalted said concerning His own actions:

And your Lord creates what He wills and chooses; not for them was the choice. Exalted is Allah and high above what they associate with Him. The Holt Quran 28:68

And He said:

Allah keeps firm those who believe, with the firm word, in worldly life and in the Hereafter. And Allah sends astray the wrongdoers. And Allah does what He wills.The Holy Quran 14:27

And He said:

It is He who forms you in the wombs however He wills. There is no deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.The Holy Quran 3:6

Concerning the action of the creatures Allah the Most Exalted said:

Had Allah willed , indeed  He would have given them power over you, and they would have fought you The Holy Quran 4:90

And He said:

And if Allah had willed, they would not have done so, So leave them alone with their fabrications.The Holy Quran 6:137

4. The belief that Allah  created all creation and creatures  and all their actions, characteristics and movements.Allah the Most Exalted said:

Allah is the creator of all things , and He is the guardian of all things.The Holy Quran 39:62

And He said:

He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and has created each thing and determined it with [precise] determination. The Holy Quran 25:2

   

And Allah told us that Ibraheem  said to his People ( about them carving their idols):

While Allah created you and that which you do?" The Holy Quran 37:96

Qadar, as explained above  , is not contradictory of the reality that human have a freedom to act as they will and choose,and are capable of doing so , since this is proven   by both ash-Sharee'ah (revelation and scripture) and by al-Waqi (  the reality that we observe around us).

To be continue....