Believing in Al-Qada’ wa Al-Qadar (Divine Will and Decree)

Allah created his creation, decreed the predestination and ordained set ways upon the universe, individuals, nations and people. These ways apply to his slaves, his allies, his enemies, and to the heavens and earth. These ways rule humanity and life on earth. They do not vary according to time or place.

This is a fatwa shows the wisdom of creating the harmful animals.

The often misconceived belief of predestination, and the relationship between God’s eternal Knowledge and Ability to human deed and destiny.

This booklet gives the reader a thorough understanding of how the will, choice and ability of the slave are subservient to the Will and Power of Allah in the words of the noble Shaikh Muhammad ibn Saleh al-Uthaimeen (rahimahullah), Apart from explaining what it means to believe in the Divine Decree, the Shaikh has expansively clarified important issues related to the subject, like Allah’s Will for the occurrence of Kufr despite His Hatred for it.

In this series, Dr. Saleh As-Saleh deals with the sixth pillar of Islamic creed, Al-Qadar (Pre-decree of Allah). All of us know that Allah teaches us how to behave wisely so He is the All-Wise so we should believe in pre-decree of Allah, its good and its bad. We should understand this pillar based on the Quranic verses and the authentic Sunnah not based on personal opinions. Pre-decree of Allah has four ranks: knowledge, writing, willing and creation. The lecturer answers an important question: is man endowed with a free will? He also confirms that evil is not attributable to Allaah. In addition, he explains the difference between the universal will and the legal will.

Qadar is a very sensitive topic. It is the sixth pillar of faith, and many people have gone astray regarding it. Some have denied it altogether while others have gone to such extremes in affirming it that they end up denying human free will.

It is from the fundementals of faith as mentioned in the hadith of Jabril when he came to the prophet peace be upon and asked him and the prophet replied:’’It is to believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Last Day, and to believe in divine destiny, both the good and the evil thereof." so it is the sixth pillar of faith.

An article showing that supplication alone is not enough but we should perform reasons in every thing as from the requirements of supplication seeking what we asked all for through every permissable and legitimate way.

This article is quoted and translated from the book of ’’Summary Of Islamic Jurisprudence ’’ about the sixth pillar of faith which is believing in the divine decree which includes four items: 1-Belief that Allah knows everything generally and in details 2-Belief that Allah wrote the fate of everything 3-Belief that none of the creations occurs except by the will of Allah,everything occur according to his will 4-Belief that Allah created everything and that the deeds,sayings and movements of the creation all are created by Allah

Qadar [ Predestination ].

The characteristics and proper understanding of predestination in Islam