09-17-2006, 06:47 PM
Bismillah
as salam alykom
Welcome to the board Submit. Alhamdulelah for Islam. You just confirmed what Kal, arclight and me said.
It is up to us to choose between good and evil. Islam is based on the freedom to choose, we have two ways, we know that. It is up to one to pick the correct path or otherwise.
Once someone told me an excellent example. She said, when someone is on a wheelchair and placed in the front door of a club, it is not his/her choice that he couldnt get in, dance and drink, but because of the wheelchair. But when you put one who can walk, it takes him/her the decision to make whether or not he /she wants to please Allah.
I work in a mixed place. I deal with men, it is my choice to create a respectful relation or otherwise. At the time of the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam, there were no Internet, yet there were cases of zina, fornication, around which Ayahs of Quran were revealed.
shaytan will never leave the children of Adam alone. It is up to us to let him in or deter him out.