Qadar

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


as salam alykom FHC


In regard to the issue of predestination, may Allah Support me to give the correct answer, forgive me if I err, and Allow u to understand well.


You said: <b>Thanks for believing me Is it Allah's will that I be a Christian? Muslims hold a very strong belief in predestination, right? Perhaps I'm the way I am because that's what Allah decrees. Yes or no??? I have no idea!!!
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Now let us go hand in hand to dig into the point you raised. In fact , yes, Allah Has knowledge of what we do, say, think what we conceal and what we reveal. How come then Allah Judges us for our deeds?.


I will make an analogy, keep in mind that this is only to make things easier to understand. You feel that according to this situation, we don’t really have a free will and everything is recorded ahead. No we do have a free will and we make our choices, early enough even before our creation. Read what Allah Say:


“: And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam's loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We testify," lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: "Verily, we have been unaware of this." (Quran 7:172). See Allah Brought us when we were still just clots long before our creation and made us testify that we accept Allah as our Lord.


I don’t want to stress this point now to minimize your confusion.


Now when a father enters the room of his son/daughter who is supposed to be studying to find the child playing on the Internet or watching TV, when exams are only 2 days to go. In case this has been the usual attitude of the child throughout the academic year, the father will likely make such a comment as O btw you are not going to make it. You will certainly fail the exams.


Same thing, look at a mother having her 3 or 4 year old child around. The child has been warned against touching certain things, the child is approaching those things and looking at the mother. The mother lets the child go ahead telling him/her, you are going to hurt yourself and I m going to spank you. The child hurts him/herself, mother certainly spanks the child.


Another example, a teacher who is monitoring the performance of a certain student, close to the exams, the teacher announces among all other students that this particular student is going to be an A student.


How did all this happen? Knowledge of each person on each given situation. The father thru monitoring the attitude of the child who is watching TV or playing on the Internet knows quite ahead that this will lead to failure. But did he make him fail? I mean did he force the child not to study and play instead? No it was the child’s choice.


The mother taught the child about those harmful things, she did mention it a number of times and explained it well, she is watching the child about to do it, thus, she knows the expected result. But did she force the child to do it, no thus, the child deserves the punishment.


The last example, the teacher can easily guess thru knowledge and experience that due to this performance, the student will be an A student. Again did he make him/her so? No but rather the student made a choice, a decision to excel, took the correct path to do so, make every possible effort to achieve this result. But it was never thru any force/ assistance/ influence from an exterior factor.


If Allah Granted those elements (the examples included above) such knowledge thru Allah’s Knowledge Who is the all Knowing. How about Allah? Through Allah’s Knowledge, Allah Knows ahead what we are bound to do/ say/ attempt and all that. Allah very carefully, specifically, and in a detailed manner taught us very well and equipped us with all necessary arms to fight our battle against either shaytan or self. Those two elements that are source of evil. Of course the self can be also a source of good depending on how you train it. Allah Taught us how to train ourselves in order to suppress the evil inspiration, how to fight shaytan, in order to maintain being on the correct path. Some of us does succeed others don’t. But Did Allah Force us to choose either path? No. does Allah Know quite ahead what we are going to do? Yes He Does. Because He is the All Knowing. Just like the mother, father or teacher in the three examples above.


Thus, we can conclude, that Allah Knows what we are going to do, say, think, feel, through Allah’s Name The All Knowing. However, Allah Does not Force us do this which makes us fully responsible for our actions and thus deserve either reward or punishment.


In your case, yes Allah Knows you are Nasarania (Christian), although this is not what Allah Commanded you to be or Wants you to be. Yet, you are allowed a place on earth, benefit of Allah's countless blessings, allowed a chance to interact with Muslims and understand..


You have the choice, it is your call. You yourself is a living example that man is blessed with the trust. The trust which is to believe or not, to obey or not.


Allah Say in Quran: "Truly, We did offer the trust and moral responsibility (which Allah has ordained) to the heavens and the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to bear it and were afraid of it (i.e. afraid of Allah's Torment). But man bore it. Verily, he was unjust (to himself) and ignorant (of its results)." (Quran 32:73)


See the trust we accepted made us responsible for our choices, or else how Will Allah Subject us to judgement? logical.