There
is no doubt that in the Holy Qur’an there are at least eighty
verses which say that nothing happens without the will of Allah.
Whatever happens, takes place with the will of Allah. But in the
same Holy Qur’an there are more than 60 verses in which Allah
has ordered: “Act, act, and act well” Try” as
there is nothing else for you. There are people who take these verses
as saying that whatever we do; Allah gets them done through us even
the sins. But the facts are otherwise. The real meaning of these
verses are that you have no alternative but to work and do not think
that the result will be according to your wish. No, the result will
be as Allah wishes. The meaning of this is that you are a free agent
in so far your actions are concerned. But so far their result are
concerned you are helpless. Experience proves this. There are thousands
of people who work hard with a particular purpose but come out unsuccessful.
Intellect tells the same thing. If man would have command over his
acts and endeavors, everybody would have tried to become king and
everybody would have been a king. But this cannot happen and will
not happen as the result of acts and endeavors is in the command
of Allah.
In reality, the belief that Allah does the bad and good deeds of
man is the outcome of Vedantic philosophy and problem of Omnipotence
of Allah which has been implanted in the minds of the so-called
Sufis and through them has crept into the masses their infidel belief
that everything is Allah. There is no doubt that in special circumstances
a few persons perform such acts that in special circumstances a
few persons perform such acts which is also not known to them that
what were they doing. But such persons are very few and such occasions
are very rare. They are not ordinary people but are very elevated
persons. Hence it is mentioned in Hadis Qudsi: “My servant
can get close to me always in supplementary prayers, so much so
that I befriend him, Then I become his ear, eye, hand and tongue.
Now he hears, sees, speaks and catches through Me and Me alone”
This Hadis Qudsi proves that this exalted position is not attained
by every individual but only by a chosen few. Experience shows that
such exalted persons would have been only a few in the fourteen
hundred years. Hence the belief that whatever man does is the doing
of Allah is a totally sinful and wrong belief keeping in view the
belief of the general masses. This will clearly prove that the result
of acts and endeavors is not in the hand of man but is in the hand
of Allah.
This is the reality and Allah has been too merciful to Musalmans
by laying bare these facts in the Holy Qur’an. The psychological
benefit of this Quranic injuction is that when ever a Musalman fails
after hard work and efforts he is not disheartened; he is not disappointed;
he is not broken-hearted. He does not get slack in his work. He
is cheerful and full of faith and thinks that had he got the result
as he had wished, it might have been injurious and harmful to him.
He remembers what Allah has said in the Holy Qur’an: “you
think certain thing to be good for you though Allah does not think
them to be so for you”. If you ponde rover this teaching from
psychological point of view, you will come to the conclusion that
there can be no better teaching than this to keep man busy in his
efforts. But it is a matter of regret that since the Islamic world
has fallen into the abyss of mental degradation we have started
taking reverse meaning to this practical teaching which has been
given to us to keep up the spirit throughout.
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