Controversial Questions about Islam

Controversial Questions about Islam and Comments
above your foot (a cause) to fall on your foot (a result) i. e. gravity.
This result will not change till you employ another natural law such
as: moving your foot from its place or pushing the falling stone
away.
Allah created and runs the Universe by His direct command
and by laws of nature that He sets in place to form an unimagined
network of perfectly automated systems.
The laws of nature differ in terms of power and comprehensiveness of
effect. Fire, for instance, can make water evaporate but water can
put fire out. In spite of the importance of heat and its sources, Allah
made water essential for the life. Allah confirms: {We made every
living thing of water.} (1)
To elaborate more, let us take a sample of an automatic system.
There was a watch that operates, without manual winding, batteries
or any other external source of energy. It operates automatically
because it has two springs. When one spring becomes loose the
other spring tightens and vice versa. This continuous movement
provides the different gears with energy, to systematically, move
the indicators of time (hours, minutes and seconds) and date (year,
month, day). As long as the watch is operating we can be sure that
one of the springs is loosened gradually while the other is being
tightened, without looking inside. You can also predict that the
hour hand which is indicating 1:00 am, after sometime will indicate
2:00 am...etc. i.e. knowing something that will take place in the
future. We notice that the manufacturer, who invented this watch,
will eventually loose control over it. However, Allah maintains His
control over all what He creates.
It is true that Allah is who created the Universe including the human
beings, and his actions, as Abu Haneefah assures: “If the actor is created
by God, for sure his deeds are creations of God”. (2) This fact does not
mean that Man is accountable for creating his deeds from nothing,
rather he is accountable for his choosing a specific cause from the
(1) Holy Quraan, 21 30.
(2) Abu Haneefah, al-fiq-h p. 39.
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